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Download full textRhodehamel, John H.; And Others – 1991
This book presents, in words and pictures, a history of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. Fifteen chapters in the book are entitled: (1) Origins; (2) The Colonial Experience; (3) The American Crisis: Road to Revolution; (4) New Order of the Ages; (5) The Bill of Rights; (6) The Civil War; (7) A Changing America; (8) War & Reaction;…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Democratic Values
Schechter, Stephen L., Ed.; Bernstein, Richard B., Ed. – 1990
This book contains three major essays that consider the origins of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. In "The U.S. Bill of Rights in Historical Perspective," Donald S. Lutz examines the intellectual context of the Bill of Rights by analyzing the changing ideas about rights in colonial,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Political Science
Hall, Kermit L., Ed. – 1991
This book of essays connects controversies over rights and liberties today to their historical antecedents while explaining how social, political, and cultural changes have influenced understandings of specific provisions of the Bill of Rights. Written for teachers using a collaborative effort, each essay is accompanied by bibliographic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law
