The Bill of Rights (e-book) (used book) | Irving Brant | bookbook.eu

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Contents:

The Bill of Rights and its background: Sixty-three pledges of freedom;
Thinking back to Edward III;
Textbooks on tyranny;
Ten pillars of freedom;
Hats on and hats off;
Mandates or admonitions;
Old rights and later wrongs;
The diabolical art of printing;
Coke's myth of seditious libel;
Judicial midwives of the law of libel;
The popish plot;
The fall of the perjured informers;
Eight saints and a sinner;
Such freedom as the law allows;
The case of John Peter Zenger;
Franklin, Francklin, Cato and Wilkes;
Junius, juries, and judges;

The current of freedom --
The Bill of Rights and its foreground: Congress shall make no law;
A time lag in madness;
Idolators of tyranny;
Champions of liberty;
Freedom enchained;
Madison vs. Marshall vs. Iredell;
A textbook on liberty;
Revival of freedom;
The fourteenth amendment, its first form;
The fourteenth amendment, its final form;
The privilege of no privilege;
The due process of no process;
Equal rights and segregation;
Thou shalt (not) accuse thyself;
Due process in speech and press;
Freedom of religion;
Lex et consuetudo congressi;
Forging the sword of inquisition;
Attainder by congressional committees;
Resurgent rights;
Fear of freedom;
Freedom from fear.