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Declaring Rights A Brief History with Documents

by: Rakove, Jack N.

Declaring Rights A Brief History with Documents

by: Rakove, Jack N.

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9780312137342
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0312137346
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/15/1997
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

Questions about the original meaning of the Bill of Rights remain a source of active concern and controversy in the twenty-first century. In order to help students consider the intentions of the first Constitutional amendments and the significance of declaring rights, Jack Rakove traces the tradition and describes the deliberations from which the Bill of Rights emerged.

Foreword

Preface

vii

Introduction: Rights across the Centuries

(4)

PART ONE Rights in Revolution

(92)

The Seventeenth-Century Background

(10)

English Precedents

(7)

American Precedents

(3)

Puzzles about Rights

(15)

Defining a Right

(2)

The Holders of Rights

(2)

The Threat to Rights

(1)

The Sources of Rights

(2)

The Form and Function of a Declaration of Rights

(3)

The Popularity of Rights-Talk

(3)

The Colonists' Appeal to Rights

(7)

The Legacy of 1689

(7)

Constraining the King

(6)

Convention Parliament, Declaration of Rights, February 12, 1688 o.s.

(5)

Rights in Resistance

(23)

Challenging the Stamp Act

(3)

Resolutions of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, October 29, 1765

(2)

Disputing the American Claim

(4)

A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax (1965)

(3)

Martin Howard, Jr.

Constitutional Rights in the British Tradition

(7)

The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym, January 27, 1766

(6)

John Adams

Declarations of Rights as Instruments of Negotiation

(8)

Contiental Congress, Declaration and Resolves, October 14, 1774

(6)

Rights in the First Constitutions

(28)

Constitutions: A New Definition

(3)

Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, 1776

(2)

Populist Suspicions

(2)

Resolutions of Concord, Massachusetts, October 21, 1776

(1)

Declaring Rights: The First Models

(12)

Third Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, Part IV, June 1776

(2)

Thomas Jefferson

Virginia Provincial Convention, Committee Draft of a Declaration of Rights, May 27, 1776

(4)

Pennsylvania Convention, Declaration of Rights, 1776

(2)

Massachusetts: A Final Example

(7)

A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1780

(6)

A Legislative Milestone

(3)

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

PART TWO The Constitution and Rights

(113)

Madison and the Problem of Rights

(9)

Framing the Constitution

108

(7)

The Basic Positions Stated

115

(9)

A First Try at Amendments

116

(3)

Amendments Proposed to Congress, September 27, 1787

117

(2)

Richard Henry Lee

A Crucial Federalist Response

119

(5)

Statehouse Speech, October 6, 1787

121

(3)

James Wilson

The Anti-Federalist Case

124

(19)

The Traditional Position Restated

126

(6)

Second Essay Opposing the Constitution, November 1, 1787

126

(6)

Brutus

Rights and the Education of Citizens

132

(11)

Federal Farmer, Letter XVI, January 20, 1788

133

(10)

The Federalist Position

143

(4)

Can We Enumerate All Our Rights?

144

(3)

Speech in the North Carolina Ratification Convention, July 28, 1788

145

(2)

James Iredell

Madison and Jefferson: The Classic Exchange

147

(20)

Defending the Veto

148

(5)

Letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 24, 1787

150

(3)

James Madison

The View from Paris

153

(5)

Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

154

(3)

Thomas Jefferson

Letter to James Madison, July 31, 1788

157

(1)

Thomas Jefferson

Madison's Response

158

(6)

Letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788

160

(4)

James Madison

Jefferson's Common Sense

164

(3)

Letter to James Madison, March 15, 1789

165

(2)

Thomas Jefferson

Framing the Bill of Rights

167

(43)

Madison's Statesmanship

168

(14)

Speech to the House of Representatives, June 8, 1789

170

(12)

James Madison

Unweaving the Amendments

182

(4)

U.S. House of Representative, Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the Senate, August 24, 1789

183

(3)

Editorial Changes

186

(5)

U.S. Congress, Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the States, September 28, 1789

189

(2)

Residual Ambiguities

191

(3)

Epilogue: After Two Centuries

194

(5)

APPENDICES

A Constitutional Chronology (1603-1791)

199

(4)

Questions for Consideration

203

(1)

Selected Bibliography

204

(6)

Index

210

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Declaring Rights A Brief History with Documents

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0312137346

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