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Author Amar, Akhil Reed.

Title For the people : what the constitution really says about your rights / Akhil Reed Amar and Alan Hirsch.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Free Press, c1998.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.73085 Am13f    ---  Available
Description xxi, 259 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-251) and index.
Contents The people's right to amend the constitution -- Why amendment by the people is not dangerous -- The right to make state law by plebiscite -- The jury : what's the big idea? -- The constitutional right to serve on juries -- The unconstitutionality of peremptory challenges -- Rethinking the for-cause dismissal -- The right of young adults to serve on juries -- Jury review -- Jury nullification -- The public's right to a jury trial -- Suing our servants -- National security : the constitutional design -- The constitutional right to serve in the military -- Gays in the military --Women in combat -- The unconstitutionality of a national draft(?) -- The right to bear arms -- Forty acres and a mule.
Subject Constitutional law -- Popular works.
Civil rights -- Popular works.
Added Author Hirsch, Alan, 1959-
ISBN 0684826941

 
    
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