In this study, which he subtitles a "biography," a Yale professor of law traces the origins and sources of America's central document, and provides a learned, close reading. Professor Akhil Reed Amar has a thesis: that the document is more progressive than one might think, given its having been written by Founding Fathers who were landowners and ...
A leading scholar of constitutional law delivers an incisive and brilliant new account of the Bill of Rights and explodes conventional wisdom about our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar not only illuminates the text, structure, and history of the 1789 Bill but also argues that its present character owes more to antislavery activists ...
Certain to provoke legal debates and seize the attention of readers and commentators across the political spectrum, "For the People" presents a dramatically populist interpretation of the Constitution which reveals the numerous, often overlooked powers it reserves for all citizens.
The 2004 Case Supplement to accompany the authors' PROCESS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DECISIONMAKING, 4e, features major constitutional law cases through the Court's 2003-2004 term.
The author argues that, under the banners of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, the Supreme Court has constitutionalized vast areas of criminal procedure law in ways that often reward the guilty while hurting the innocent. The author reconceptualizes the foundations of the criminal procedure field.
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