The heart of the Constitution : how the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights /

"This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally...

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Main Author: Magliocca, Gerard N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018
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245 1 4 |a The heart of the Constitution :  |b how the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights /  |c Gerard N. Magliocca 
260 |a New York, NY :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 2018 
300 |a xii, 235 pages :  |b illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index 
505 0 |a Preface : The Bill of Rights -- Introduction : The First Bill of Rights Day -- Fighting the Crown -- Opposing the Constitution -- Drafting the amendments -- Wandering in the wilderness -- Reconstructing the Union -- Justifying imperialism -- Defending the New Deal -- Attacking the Fu⁺hrer -- Reinventing judicial review -- Waging the Cold War -- Epilogue : A Sacred Relic -- Appendix A. The English Declaration of Rights (1689) -- Appendix B. The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) -- Appendix C. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) 
520 |a "This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally started doing so between the Spanish-American War and World War II, the Bill of Rights was usually invoked to justify increasing rather than restricting the authority of the federal government. President Franklin D. Roosevelt played a key role in that development, first by using the Bill of Rights to justify the expansion of national regulation under the New Deal, and then by transforming the Bill of Rights into a patriotic rallying cry against Nazi Germany. It was only after the Cold War began that the Bill of Rights took on its modern form as the most powerful symbol of the limits on government power. These are just some of the revelations about the Bill of Rights in Gerard Magliocca's The Heart of the Constitution. For example, we are accustomed to seeing the Bill of Rights at the end of the Constitution, but Madison wanted to put them in the middle of the document. Why was his plan rejected and what impact did that have on constitutional law? Today we also venerate the first ten amendments as the Bill of Rights, but many Supreme Court opinions say that only the first eight or first nine amendments. Why was that and why did that change? The Bill of Rights that emerges from Magliocca's fresh historical examination is a living text that means something different for each generation and reflects the great ideas of the Constitution--individual freedom, democracy, states' rights, judicial review, and national power in time of crisis."--  |c Provided by publisher 
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