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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brant, Irving, 1885-1976. Bill of rights; its origin and meaning. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1965] (OCoLC)575452681 Online version: Brant, Irving, 1885-1976. Bill of rights; its origin and meaning. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1965] (OCoLC)607809611 |
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| Named Person: | United States. |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Irving Brant |
| OCLC Number: | 1175546 |
| Description: | vi, 567 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: The Bill of Rights and Its Background. Chapter 1: Sixty-Three Pledges of Freedom --- Chapter 2: Thinking Back to Edward III --- Chapter 3: Textbooks on Tyranny --- Chapter 4: Ten Pillars of Freedom --- Chapter 5: Hats On and Hats Off --- Chapter 6: Mandates or Admonitions --- Chapter 7: Old Rights and Later Wrongs --- Chapter 8: The Diabolical Art of Printing --- Chapter 9: Coke's Myth of Seditious Libel --- Chapter 10: Judicial Midwives of the Law of Libel --- Chapter 11: The Popish Plot --- Chapter 12: The Fall of the Perjured Informers --- Chapter 13: Eight Saints and a Sinner --- Chapter 14: Such Freedom as the Law Allows --- Chapter 15: The Case of John Peter Zenger --- Chapter 16: Franklin, Francklin, Cato and Wilkes --- Chapter 17: Junius, Juries and Judges --- Chapter 18: The Current of Freedom ---- Part II: The Bill of Rights and Its Foreground. Chapter 19: Congress Shall Make No Law --- Chapter 20: A Time Lag in Madness --- Chapter 21: Idolators of Tyranny --- Chapter 22: Champions of Liberty --- Chapter 23: Freedom Enchained --- Chapter 24: Madison vs. Marshall vs. Iredell --- Chapter 25: A Textbook on Liberty --- Chapter 26: Revival of Freedom --- Chapter 27: The Fourteenth Amendment: Its First Form --- Chapter 28: The Fourteenth Amendment: Its Final Form --- Chapter 29: The Privilege of No Privilege --- Chapter 30: The Due Process of No Process --- Chapter 31: Equal Rights and Segregation --- Chapter 32: Thou Shalt (Not) Accuse Thyself --- Chapter 33: Due Process in Speech and Press --- Chapter 34: Freedom of Religion --- Chapter 35: Lex et Consuetudo Congressi --- Chapter 36: Forging the Sword of Inquisition --- Chapter 37: Attainder by Congressional Committees --- Chapter 38: Resurgent Rights --- Chapter 39: Fear of Freedom --- Chapter 40: Freedom from Fear. |
| Responsibility: | by Irving Brant. |
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