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xxii, 542 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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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.
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Constitutional history -- United States -- States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
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Civil rights -- U.S. states.
(OCoLC)fst00862695
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Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
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Constitutional history -- U.S. states.
(OCoLC)fst00875792
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Chronological Term |
To 1783
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Conley, Patrick T.
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Kaminski, John P.
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U.S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original States.
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University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution.
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ISBN |
0945612265 (HC) |
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9780945612261 (HC) |
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094561229X (pbk.) |
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9780945612292 (pbk.) |
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