Harris, Duchess
Summary: "The Thirteenth Amendment is one of the most important acts in the legal history of the United States. It is often said that the amendment abolished slavery. But its legacy is more complicated than that. The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery except as a form of punishment. Southerners seized on this loophole. They unjustly arrested thousands of Black people. Black convicts were forced to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J325.2609 HARBjorklund, Ruth
Summary: Many of the rights we consider most important to the United States—from freedom of speech to a fair trial—are in the Bill of Rights. Readers learn how these important laws came to be and how people continue to discuss and debate them even today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press(r), an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7308 BJOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7308 BJOUnited States
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2006
Taylor-Butler, Christine.
Summary: Describes the creation and ratification of the Bill of Rights, explains what rights are, and discusses the rights it guarantees, such as freedom of speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2008
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Summary: "Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to vote. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to vote. The Supreme Court has made matters worse by failing to protect voting rights and limiting Congress's ability to do so. The time has come for voters to take action and push for an amendment to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.6 HASAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "A historical survey of the people, events, decrees, legislation, writings, and cultural milestones, in England and the American colonies, that influenced the Founding Fathers as they drafted the US Constitution and Bill of Rights"--P. [2] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 AMAKowal, John F.
Summary: "The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 KOWHudson, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.085 HUDLevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: The nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host discusses how we can fix our "broken" government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 LEVFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 FONFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONSummary: This program sets two crucial human rights-related Constitutional amendments within the context of their historical times: Amendment 13, abolishing slavery throughout the U.S., and Amendment 14, defining U.S. citizenship and stipulating due process and equal protection under the law. Four additional amendments-11, judicial powers construed; 16, federal income tax; and 18 and 21, Prohibition and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: It upholds freedom of speech and religion, guarantees a free press, grants the right to keep and bear arms, preserves the right of trial by jury, establishes states' rights, and more. It's the Bill of Rights. This program presents the ten key Constitutional amendments that have defined the fundamental liberties that are the American birthright-and examines the controversies and challenges they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Amar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "From Illinois to Alabama, and from Florida to Utah, our laws and legal debates arise from distinctive local settings within our vast and varied nation. As the renowned scholar Akhil Amar explains, Abraham Lincoln's argument against the legality of succession can be traced to his Midwestern upbringing, just as a close look at the Florida legislature and state Supreme Court reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMASummary: A government of the people, by the people, and for the people isn’t possible without the laborious process of nominating and electing candidates, in a manner fair and free to all citizens. How did this process begin and how has it evolved over the course of American history? Does it even remotely resemble—for better or for worse—the manner in which the Founding Fathers gained high office? Using...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: At last, the federal convention has begun! Eleven days late, in the middle of a downpour, a quorum of 29 delegates from seven states are finally getting down to business in Philadelphia… This is the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and Emmy award-winning journalist Bill Moyers is reporting the story. Filmed at Independence Hall and filled with historical images and passages from the diaries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Furgang, Kathy.
Summary: Looks at the Ninth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, how it came to be passed, and how its protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution has been handled over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2011