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Title The Bill of Rights and the states : the colonial and revolutionary origins of American liberties / edited by Patrick T. Conley and John P. Kaminski ; sponsored by the U.S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original States and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution.

Imprint Madison, Wis. : Madison House, 1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  342.085 B493s 1992    ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  342.085 B493s 1992 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxii, 542 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Rights in passage : English liberties in early America / A.E. Dick Howard -- The Constitution without a Bill of Rights / John P. Kaminski -- "A tub to the whale" : the adoption of the Bill of Rights / Kenneth R. Bowling -- From liberties to rights : the struggle in colonial Massachusetts / John M. Murrin -- Liberty, justice, and no Bill of Rights : protecting natural rights in a common-law commonwealth, Connecticut / Christopher Collier -- Rhode Island : laboratory for the "lively experiment" / Patrick T. Conley -- New Hampshire accepts the Bill of Rights / Frank C. Meyers -- Freedom and unity : Vermont's search for security of property, liberty and popular government / H. Nicholas Muller -- Liberty as nature's gift : the colonial origins of the Bill of Rights in New York / Milton M. Klein -- A study in paradox : New Jersey and the Bill of Rights / Eugene R. Sheridan -- Delaware : armed in the cause of freedom / Gaspare J. Saladino -- Pennsylvania : pioneer in safeguarding personal rights / John K. Alexander -- "That all men are born equally free and independent" : Virginians and the origins of the Bill of Rights / Warren M. Billings -- "To maintain inviolate our liberties" : Maryland and the Bill of Rights / Gregory A. Stiverson -- "Their liberties, properties and priviledges" : civil liberties in South Carolina, 1663-1791 / Michael E. Stevens -- "There ought to be a Bill of Rights" : North Carolina enters a new nation / William S. Price -- Frontier haven : Georgia and the Bill of Rights / Kenneth Coleman -- The Bill of Rights : a bibliographic essay / Gaspare J. Saladino.
Subject Civil rights -- United States -- States -- History.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history -- United States -- States.
United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
Civil rights -- U.S. states. (OCoLC)fst00862695
Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
Constitutional history -- U.S. states. (OCoLC)fst00875792
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term To 1783
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Conley, Patrick T.
Kaminski, John P.
U.S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original States.
University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution.
ISBN 0945612265 (HC)
9780945612261 (HC)
094561229X (pbk.)
9780945612292 (pbk.)

 
    
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