Robert Mcwhirter

Bills, Quills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill of Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

This lively history of the Bill of Rights traces the origin of the first ten Amendments over the span of nearly a thousand years; starting with the philosophical and religious understanding informing them, moving through their creation and meaning for the framers, and leading to their interpretation and disputation today.

Produktdetails

• Constitution Press
• Verlag: CONSTITUTION PR
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 178mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1610g
• ISBN-13: 9781945682018
• ISBN-10: 1945682019
• Artikelnr.: 45613328

Autorenporträt

Robert McWhirter is an acknowledged authority on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on which he has written and lectured widely both to academic and legal audiences as well as civic institutions. His earlier work was published by the American Bar Association. He appears regularly on Arizona Public Television's Horizon program explaining the legality and history surrounding the challenges to, and interpretation of, the Constitution. Robert also specializes in criminal law on which he has published widely. He presently practices as a criminal defense lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Prequel and Preamble: Did They Forget to Pay the Bill? The First Amendment Jesus and the First Amendment
Christians and Lions
Separating Church and State in The City of God
When the Church was the State
Magna Carta and Freedom of Religion
Martin Luther and John Calvin
Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More
Religion and Speech in Puritan America
Libel Law in Colonial America
John Peter Zenger's trial and the Freedom of the Press
A Christian Nation?
The 'Wall' Separating Church and State
The First Amendment as Your Personal Savior The Second Amendment What to Make of the Gun History Mess
Arms in History: The Ancient World
Medieval England
Early Modern Arms & Changes in the Militia
Arms against Catholics in England
1689 and Parliament's Insistence on a Right to Bear Arms
Colonial America: England vs Colonial Militias
Militias and the Minuteman Myth
Second Amendment: Gun Regulation at the Founding
Guns as a Tax
Guns and Slavery
The Self-defense Myth
Preventing Tyranny The Third Amendment The Roman Army
The Anglo-Saxons in the Mead Hall
The Norman Conquest and Feudalism
The Growth of Armies
The Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights
The French and Indian War
The Intolerable Acts and the Boston Tea Party
Quartering Troops during the American Revolution
Quartering in the Bill of Rights
The Fear of a Standing Army
The Third Amendment for Today The Fourth Amendment "A Man's Home is His Castle"
John Wilkes and the North Briton No. 45
Molasses and the Fourth Amendment
Mercantilism Versus Capitalism
The Triangle Trade -- Rum for Slaves, Slaves for Molasses, Molasses for Rum
The Seven Years' War
America Reacts to the Writs
Sixty-Three Boston Merchants
Otis and the Writs
Of Wilkes and Writs: The Fourth Amendment's Two Clauses
The Fourth Amendment for Today The Fifth Amendment Biblical Sources
Christianity and the Middle Ages
The Ius Commune and Trial by Compurgation
The Inquisition
Church Courts in England and Double Jeopardy
Henry VIII and the Tudors
Legal Arguments Against the Oath
Lilburne's Trial and Legacy
The Puritans in America: Anne Hutchinson and the Salem Witches
Colonial Governors and Inquisitorial Proceedings
Privilege in American Constitutions The Sixth Amendment "Counsel For His Defense" in History
Anglo-Saxon and Norman Courts
The King's Peace and the King's Courts
Tudor and Stuart Trials
Lilburne Pleads for a Lawyer
Habeas Corpus
Judicial Independence
The Framers and the Rule of Law
The Defendant Gets Lilburne's Lawyer
Treason Act of 1696
Prosecutors, Reasonable Doubt, and the Presumption of Innocence
Boston Massacre Trial
The Average Citizen's Trial The Seventh Amendment When a Trial Really Was a Trial: Compurgation, Ordeal, and Battle, Trial By His Body
To Plead or Not To Plead
Juries in Athens and Rome
The Jury's Source: Frankish, English, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, or Norman?
Why Twelve Jurors?
The Early English Jury
The Grand Jury and Petit Jury
The Changing Grand Jury
Jurors Become Even Less Informed
Evidence and the Hearsay Rule
The Early Modern Jury
Juries in America The Eighth Amendment "Cruel and Unusual" from Lex Talionis
Double Jeopardy and Proportionality
A History of Death
A Classical Death
Death in a Time of God's Mercy
King's Death
The English Bill of Rights
"Cruel and Unusual" as a Pair The Ninth Amendment Rights, Government, and States
Declaring Our Right to Rights Naturally
Greeks and Romans on Rights and Law
Medieval Rights
Rights in English History
John Locke and the Natural Law
Locke and the Founding Generation
Taking the Ninth Amendment Personally
The Ninth Amendment: A Happy Failure The Tenth Amendment The Ninth and Tenth Amendments: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
A History of Rights and Powers
The Tenth Amendment and Federalism
Courts as Umpires of Federalism and Separate Powers
Slavery: A "Peculiar" Right Perfecting the Art of Hypocrisy
Bringing the South to the Cause
Fighting for the Right to Be "the People" Epilogue: How We Ponied-Up to Pay the Bill The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments Bibliography Index About the Author