Rights of the People
by Melvin Urofsky
Publisher: U.S. Department of State 2003
Number of pages: 102
Description:
A history of American law and justice, written by Constitutional historian Melvin Urofsky. By focusing on the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, and the legal interpretations, many of them written by America's finest jurists, that refined and expanded the Bill of Rights, Urofsky presents a history of the United States from the standpoint of individual liberty.
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