The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins

This Edition Of The Complete Bill Of Rights Is More Than A 'second Edition.' At Nearly Double The Size Of The First, In Effect It Adds A Second Volume To A One-volume Work. But The Volume Does More Than Add 650 Pages To An Existing Framework. Rather, The Second Edition Provides Access To Previously Uncollected And Unorganized Resources For Understanding The Framers' Minds And Interpreting Their Texts. The First Edition Focuses On The Proposals For The Bill Of Rights That Emerged From The Constitution's Ratifying Conventions. That Edition Had, And This Edition Has As Well, All Of The Proposals For The Bill Of Rights, Their Sources In Colonial And State Law, And Their Debates In The Conventions And The Country. These Materials, Taken From Their Original Sources, Enable The Reader To Follow The Bill In An Accessible Manner, Clause-by-clause And Date-by-date, From Thought To Fruition. This Second Edition Widens The Framework In Two Ways.^ First, It Collects From Contemporary Libraries - Particularly Those Of Adams And Jefferson - The Texts That Informed The Framers' Thought. This Edition Adds Full Excerpts From Treatises And Dictionaries - Those, For Example, Of Bacon, Blackstone, Burn, Cunningham, Hale, Hawkins, And Viner - That The Learned Drafters Used And Studied. It Includes The Texts' Margin Notes And Footnotes, Which Reference The Statutory And Decisional Sources For The Legal Rules And Doctrines As They Were Then Understood. Second, This Edition Goes Beyond The Bill Of Rights And Provides The Proposals, Sources, And Debates For The Habeas Corpus And Privileges And Immunities Clauses, Provisions Embedded In The Constitution Prior To Its Amendment. While The Bill's Proponents Wanted And Got More, The Framers Of The Constitution Believed That These Clauses Provided Fundamental Protection For Liberty.^ Professor Cogan Assembled The Second Edition In A Full, Accurate, And Neutral Manner To Enable The Reader To Have A More Informed Understanding Of The Bill Of Rights And Its Related Clauses--unedited Summary From Book Jacket. Amendment I, Establishment And Free Exercise Clauses -- Amendment I, Free Speech And Free Press Clauses -- Amendment I, Assembly And Petition Clauses -- Amendment Ii, Keep And Bear Arms Clause -- Amendment Iii, Quartering Soldiers Clause -- Amendment Iv, Search And Seizure Clause -- Amendment V, Grand Jury Clause -- Amendment V, Double Jeopardy Clause -- Amendment V, Self-incrimination Clause -- Amendment V, Due Process Clause -- Amendment V, Takings Clause -- Amendment Vi, Criminal Trial Clauses -- Amendment Vii, Civil Jury Trial Clauses -- Amendment Viii, Bail/punishment Clauses -- Amendment Ix, Unenumerated Rights Clause -- Amendment X, Reservation Of Powers Clause -- Article I, Section 9, Clause 2, Habeas Corpus Clause -- Article Iv, Section 2, Clause 1, Privileges And Immunities Clause -- Appendix: Bill Of Rights. Edited By Neil H. Cogan ; Aviel Pret, Editorial Assistant (second Edition), David Lindsay Adams, Theresa Lynn Harvey, Editorial Assistants. Includes Bibliographical References (pages Lxxi-lxxvii).