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Author Rutland, Robert Allen, 1922-2000, author

Title The birth of the Bill of rights, 1776-1791 / by Robert Allen Rutland
Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, [1955]
©1955

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 243 pages)
Series World constitutions illustrated
Legal classics library
Congress and the courts
Civil rights and social justice
Contents 1. The English beginnings -- 2. Colonial achievement -- 3. Mr. Mason's proposal -- 4. The new republic acts -- 5. Personal freedom in the new republic -- 6. The federal convention -- 7. The ratification struggle -- 8. The great compromise -- 9. The campaign pledge fulfilled -- 10. Since 1791 -- Appendices: A. The Virginia Declaration of Rights; B. The federal Bill of Rights
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Online resource (HathiTrust, HeinOnline, viewed November 16, 2020)
Subject United States. Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments.
SUBJECT Constitution (United States) fast (OCoLC)fst01356075
Subject Civil rights -- United States.
Civil rights.
Grondrechten.
Bill of Rights (Verenigde Staten)
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Form Electronic book
Author Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.), issuing body
Virginia. Declaration of Rights