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Constitutional opinions : aspects of the Bill of Rights / Leonard W. Levy.
- Title
- Constitutional opinions : aspects of the Bill of Rights / Leonard W. Levy.
- Author
- Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 272 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Although this collection spans the entire course of American history, Levy focuses primarily on colonial America and the Constitutional period. His essays cover a broad range of subjects, including free speech in the 17th century, John Liburne and the rights of the English, Quaker blasphemy and toleration, the Zenger case, the First and Ffifth Amendments, Jefferson as civil libertarian, and judicial activism. Levy's previously unpublished works offer new discussions of the history of our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the establishment clause of the First Amendment, and the right against self-incrimination.
- Subject
- United States
- USA
- Constitution (United States)
- Geschichte 1700-1800
- Civil rights > United States > History
- Constitutional history > United States
- Constitutional law > United States
- Droit constitutionnel > États-Unis
- Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire
- Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis
- Constitutional law
- Civil rights
- Constitutional history
- Verfassung
- Staatsrecht
- Bill of Rights (Verenigde Staten)
- Constitutional history > United States
- États-Unis > Histoire constitutionnelle
- United States
- USA > Verfassung (1787) > Amendment 1-10
- United States Constitution, to 1982
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-272).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Freedom of speech in seventeenth-century thought -- John Lilburne and the rights of Englishmen -- Quaker blasphemy and toleration -- Did the Zenger case really matter? Freedom of the press in colonial New York -- Constitutional history, 1776-1789 -- The Bill of Rights -- The original meaning of the Establishment Clause -- Liberty and the First Amendment: 1790-1800 -- Jefferson as a civil libertarian -- History and judicial history: the case of the Fifth Amendment -- Subversion of Miranda -- Judicial activism and strict construction.
- ISBN
- 0195036417
- 9780195036411
- 019505945X
- 9780195059458
- LCCN
- 85007212
- OCLC
- 11918737
- SCSB-10297276
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library