We the People

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As a companion volume to the four-part television series, "We The People,"* developed by public broadcasting station KQED, Inc., San Francisco and the American Bar Association, this book is part of a nationwide celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States of America in 1987, and its first ten amendments—known as the Bill of Rights— in 1991.
We the People highlights the durability, strength, and significance of the Constitution in contemporary American life by examining those basic constitutional issues of vital concern to every American, and their impact—whether direct or indirect—upon each citizen. Early American revolutionary and constitutional history, famous benchmark cases from the records of the Supreme Court, and current controversies, all bring into sharp focus those urgent questions that must be addressed by every generation, while providing examples of the complex forms in which those questions may be posed as a result of modern... Tovább

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As a companion volume to the four-part television series, "We The People,"* developed by public broadcasting station KQED, Inc., San Francisco and the American Bar Association, this book is part of a nationwide celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States of America in 1987, and its first ten amendments—known as the Bill of Rights— in 1991.
We the People highlights the durability, strength, and significance of the Constitution in contemporary American life by examining those basic constitutional issues of vital concern to every American, and their impact—whether direct or indirect—upon each citizen. Early American revolutionary and constitutional history, famous benchmark cases from the records of the Supreme Court, and current controversies, all bring into sharp focus those urgent questions that must be addressed by every generation, while providing examples of the complex forms in which those questions may be posed as a result of modern political, economic, social, and scientific developments. Whether the concern is civil rights or the freedom of expression, judicial power and responsibility or the rights of women, questions of genetics or the inevitable tensions in the constitutional system of checks and balances, We the People brings the issues to life on every
The vivid text has been provided by Robert S. Peck, Director of the American Bar Association's Commission on Public Understanding About the Law; the wide range of illustrations includes this nation's most precious documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—as well as posters, prints, and photographs of individuals involved in famous benchmark cases. In addition, an illustrated section of stirring quotations dealing with constitutional issues past, present, and future, emphasizes the continuing relevance of American constitutional law to the concerns of every citizen.
Finally, bound into the back of We the People (but removable) is a facsimile of the actual copy of the Constitution used at the Supreme Court of the United States.
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