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"This is one of the most important books about constitutional interpretation of its generation."Jeffrey Rosen, American Lawyer Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar brilliantly illuminates in rich detail not simply the text, structure, and history of individual clauses of the 1789 Bill, but their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. Amars corrective does not end there, however, for as his powerful narrative proves, a later generation of antislavery activists profoundly changed the meaning of the Bill in the Reconstruction era. With the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans underwent a new birth of freedom that transformed the old Bill of Rights. We have as a result a complex historical document originally designed to protect the people against self-i

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Author

Amar, Professor Akhil Reed, Amar, Akhil Reed

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300082777

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Fiction, Political Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (207 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14