| Description |
xii, 487 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"This book is the result of eight separate conferences conducted by the Center for Judicial Studies between 1985 and 1987"--Foreword. |
| Contents |
The Bill of Rights and the doctrine of incorporation / Charles Rice -- The intentions of the adopters are in the eyes of the beholder / Paul Brest -- Constitutional adjudication : the interpretive view / Ralph K. Winter -- The establishment clause as intended / John S. Baker, Jr. -- Free exercise as the framers understood it / Michael W. McConnell -- The sad state of free exercise in the courts / Barry W. Lynn -- Original intent and freedom of speech and press / Stanley C. Brubaker -- May society preserve a modicum of decorum in public discourse? / Jules B. Gerard -- The original understanding of the Second Amendment / Stephen P. Halbrook -- Minimalist interpretation of the Second Amendment / Don B. Kates, Jr. -- The Fourth Amendment as more than a form of words / Bradford P. Wilson -- The Fourth Amendment in the nineteenth century / James Etienne Viator -- The Fourth Amendment today / Lloyd L. Weinreb -- Fourth Amendment remedies / Albert W. Alschuler -- The original meaning of the due process clause / Christopher Wolfe -- The "takings" clause and the Fifth Amendment / Harry N. Scheiber -- Current understandings of the takings clause / Melody B. McCutcheon, William B. Stoebuck -- "Self-incrimination" : the original intent / Ralph Rossum -- Reconsidering Miranda and the Fifth Amendment / Stephen J. Schulhofer -- The cruel and unusual punishments clause / Raoul Berger -- Against the American system of capital punishment / Jack Greenberg -- The death penalty is not cruel and unusual punishment / William Bradford Reynolds -- The jury and consensus government in mid-eighteenth-century America / William E. Nelson -- Unexplored aspects of the theory of the right to trial by jury / Ronald J. Allen -- The Sixth Amendment, judicial power, and the people's right to counsel / Williams Gangi -- The current understanding of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel / Kathleen F. Brickey -- A historical inquiry into the right to trial by jury in complex civil litigation / Morris S. Arnold -- Limited government and individual liberty : the Ninth Amendment's forgotten lessons / Charles J. Cooper -- The Ninth Amendment and contemporary jurisprudence / Edward J. Erler -- The original understanding of the Tenth Amendment / Eugene W. Hickok, Jr. -- The current understanding of the Tenth Amendment / Paul J. Mishkin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- United States -- Interpretation and construction.
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United States. Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments.
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Hickok, Eugene W., Jr., 1950-
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Center for Judicial Studies (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
0813912970 cloth |
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9780813912974 cloth |
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0813913365 paperback |
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9780813913360 paperback |
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