Declaring Rights
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Jack N. Rakove
Jack Rakove is the W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1979); James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (revised edition, 2001); Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in history; Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martins, 1997); The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence (Harvard, 2009); and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). He has also contributed essays and articles to numerous scholarly collections, law reviews, and newspapers. In 1998 he testified at the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearings on the background and history of impeachment and has served as a consultant and expert witness in the recent litigation over the use of sampling procedures in the decennial federal census.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Rights across the Centuries
PART ONE: RIGHTS IN REVOLUTION
1. The Seventeenth-Century Background
English Precedents
American Precedents
2. Puzzels about Rights
Defining a Right
The Holders of Rights
The Threat to Rights
The Sources of Rights
The Form and Function of a Declaration of Rights
The Popularity of Rights-Talk
3. The Colonists Appeal to Rights
4. The Legacy of 1689
Constraining the King
1. Convention Parliment, Declaration of Rights, February 12, 1688 o.s.
5. Rights in Resistance
Challenging the Stamp Act
2. Resolutions of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, October 29, 1765
Disputing the American Claim
3. Martin Howard,Jr., A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax (1765)
Consitutional Rights in the British Tradition
4. John Adams, The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym, January 27, 1766
Declarations of Rights as Instruments of Negotiation
5. Contintental Congress, Declaration and Resolves, October 14, 1774
6. Rights in the First Constitutions
Constitutions: A New Definition
6. Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, 1776
Populist Suspicions
7. Resolutions of Concord, Massachusetts, October 21, 1776
Declaring Rights: The First Models
8. Thomas Jefferson, Third Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, Part IV, June 1776
9. Virginia Provincial Convention, Committee Draft of a Declaration of Rights, May 27, 1776
10. Pennsylvania Convention, Declaration of Rights, 1776
Massachusetts: A Final Example
11. A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1780
A Legislative Milestone
12. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786
PART TWO: THE CONSTITUTION AND RIGHTS
7. Madison and the Problem of Rights
8. Framing the Constitution
9. The Basic Positions Stated
A First Try at Amendments
13. Richard Henry Lee, Amendments Proposed to Congress, September 27, 1787
A Crucial Federalist Response
14. James Wilson, Statehouse Speech, October 6, 1787
10. The Anti-Federalist Case
The Traditional Position Restated
15. Brutus, Second Essay Opposing the Constitution, November 1, 1787
Rights and the Education of Citizens
16. Federal Farmer, Letter XVI, January 20, 1788
11. The Federalist Position
Can We Enumerate All Our Rights?
17. James Iredell, Speech in the North Carolina Ratification Convention, July 28, 1788
12. Madison and Jefferson: The Classic Exchange
Defending the Veto
18. James Madison, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 24, 1787
The View From Paris
19. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
20. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, July 31, 1788
Madisons Response
21. James Madison, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788
Jeffersons Common Sense
22. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, March 15, 1789
13. Framing the Bill of Rights
Madisons Statemanship
23. James Madison, Speech to the House of Representatives, June 8, 1789
Unweaving the Amendments
24. U.S. House of the Representatives, Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the Senate, August 24, 1789
Editorial Changes
25. U. S. Congress, Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the States, September 28, 1789
Residual Ambiguities
Epilogue: After Two Centuries
APPENDICES
A Constitutional Chronology (1603-1791)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Product Updates
Authors
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Jack N. Rakove
Jack Rakove is the W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1979); James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (revised edition, 2001); Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in history; Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martins, 1997); The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence (Harvard, 2009); and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). He has also contributed essays and articles to numerous scholarly collections, law reviews, and newspapers. In 1998 he testified at the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearings on the background and history of impeachment and has served as a consultant and expert witness in the recent litigation over the use of sampling procedures in the decennial federal census.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Rights across the Centuries
PART ONE: RIGHTS IN REVOLUTION
1. The Seventeenth-Century Background
English Precedents
American Precedents
2. Puzzels about Rights
Defining a Right
The Holders of Rights
The Threat to Rights
The Sources of Rights
The Form and Function of a Declaration of Rights
The Popularity of Rights-Talk
3. The Colonists Appeal to Rights
4. The Legacy of 1689
Constraining the King
1. Convention Parliment, Declaration of Rights, February 12, 1688 o.s.
5. Rights in Resistance
Challenging the Stamp Act
2. Resolutions of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, October 29, 1765
Disputing the American Claim
3. Martin Howard,Jr., A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax (1765)
Consitutional Rights in the British Tradition
4. John Adams, The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym, January 27, 1766
Declarations of Rights as Instruments of Negotiation
5. Contintental Congress, Declaration and Resolves, October 14, 1774
6. Rights in the First Constitutions
Constitutions: A New Definition
6. Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, 1776
Populist Suspicions
7. Resolutions of Concord, Massachusetts, October 21, 1776
Declaring Rights: The First Models
8. Thomas Jefferson, Third Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, Part IV, June 1776
9. Virginia Provincial Convention, Committee Draft of a Declaration of Rights, May 27, 1776
10. Pennsylvania Convention, Declaration of Rights, 1776
Massachusetts: A Final Example
11. A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1780
A Legislative Milestone
12. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786
PART TWO: THE CONSTITUTION AND RIGHTS
7. Madison and the Problem of Rights
8. Framing the Constitution
9. The Basic Positions Stated
A First Try at Amendments
13. Richard Henry Lee, Amendments Proposed to Congress, September 27, 1787
A Crucial Federalist Response
14. James Wilson, Statehouse Speech, October 6, 1787
10. The Anti-Federalist Case
The Traditional Position Restated
15. Brutus, Second Essay Opposing the Constitution, November 1, 1787
Rights and the Education of Citizens
16. Federal Farmer, Letter XVI, January 20, 1788
11. The Federalist Position
Can We Enumerate All Our Rights?
17. James Iredell, Speech in the North Carolina Ratification Convention, July 28, 1788
12. Madison and Jefferson: The Classic Exchange
Defending the Veto
18. James Madison, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 24, 1787
The View From Paris
19. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
20. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, July 31, 1788
Madisons Response
21. James Madison, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788
Jeffersons Common Sense
22. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, March 15, 1789
13. Framing the Bill of Rights
Madisons Statemanship
23. James Madison, Speech to the House of Representatives, June 8, 1789
Unweaving the Amendments
24. U.S. House of the Representatives, Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the Senate, August 24, 1789
Editorial Changes
25. U. S. Congress, Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the States, September 28, 1789
Residual Ambiguities
Epilogue: After Two Centuries
APPENDICES
A Constitutional Chronology (1603-1791)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Product Updates
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Declaring Rights
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