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Book

The Bill of Rights : the first ten amendments of the Constitution

Call Number

  • 342.73 H885 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2002.

Physical Description

128 p. ; ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Traces the history of the writing of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and examines each amendment's provisions and applications in detail.

Contents

  • What is the Bill of Rights?
  • Ancestry of the Bill of Rights
  • How the Constitution and the Bill of Rights developed
  • The father of the Bill of Rights
  • Amending the Constitution
  • The Bill of Rights in action.

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