ERIC Number: ED345976
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: 86
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Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights.
Mann, Sheilah, Ed.; Harrison, Cynthia, Ed.
This Constitution, n19 spec iss Fall 1991
This issue of "this Constitution" is devoted to commemorating the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. Materials include: "A Chronology of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the United States" (Herman Belz); "Constitutional Power to Enforce Individual Rights: The Legacy of McCulloch v. Maryland" (J. Woodford Howard Jr.); "The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Civil Liberties: From 'Rights in Property' to 'Property in Rights'" (James A. Henretta); "The Reality of Rights in an Atolerant Society" (Joel B. Grossman; Charles R. Epp); "Roundtable of Participants in the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (Raymond E. Wolfinger); "What Americans Should Know about the Bill of Rights: Eight Lessons" (Mark P. Petracca); a lesson for the classroom: "Abigail Adams on the Constitutional Rights of Women" (Corinne Wright); and "The Bill of Rights: A Bibliography" (Kermit L. Hall). A final section called "Bicentennial Gazette" provides a list of Bill of Rights resource organizations. (DB)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Secondary Education, Social Studies, United States History
American Political Science Association, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Language: English
Sponsor: Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Project '87, Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Bill of Rights; United States Constitution
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