The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights
- ISBN-10
- 0190271604
- ISBN-13
- 9780190271602
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Gerard N. Magliocca
Description
"This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten amendments the Bill of Rights. When they did after 1900, the Bill of Rights was usually invoked to increase rather than limit federal authority"--
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