Research Catalog

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.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : Madison House, 1992.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• 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

Description

xxii, 542 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Civil rights > U.S. states
• Civil rights > United States > History
• Constitutional history
• Constitutional history > U.S. states
• Constitutional history > United States
• Constitutional history > United States > States
• Politics and government
• To 1783
• USA
• USA > Amendment 1-10
• United States
• United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783
• United States > Politics and government > To 1775

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0945612265
• 9780945612261
• 094561229X
• 9780945612292

LCCN

91047694

OCLC

25131283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library