This book tells the story of each Constitutional Amendment and the role that the Amendments have played in shaping the American experience. Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read.
This book tells the story of each Constitutional Amendment and the role that the Amendments have played in shaping the American experience. Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read.
Blaine Kaltman is a former U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer. He earned a doctorate from the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China.
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Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction THE BILL OF RIGHTS CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Rights: The First Amendment CHAPTER 2 Bearing Arms: The Second Amendment CHAPTER 3 Innocent until Proven Guilty: The Third through Eighth Amendments CHAPTER 4 This and No More: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments AMENDMENTS ELEVEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN CHAPTER 5 What Federal Courts Cannot Do: The Eleventh Amendment CHAPTER 6 The President and Vice President: The Twelfth, Twentieth, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery to Civil Rights: The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Twenty-Fourth Amendments CHAPTER 8 Money Makes the World Go Round: The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Twenty-Seventh Amendments CHAPTER 9 To Drink or Not to Drink, that is the Question: The Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments CHAPTER 10¿New Voters: The Nineteenth, Twenty-Third, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments Afterword: Looking Back and Going Forward
Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction THE BILL OF RIGHTS CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Rights: The First Amendment CHAPTER 2 Bearing Arms: The Second Amendment CHAPTER 3 Innocent until Proven Guilty: The Third through Eighth Amendments CHAPTER 4 This and No More: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments AMENDMENTS ELEVEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN CHAPTER 5 What Federal Courts Cannot Do: The Eleventh Amendment CHAPTER 6 The President and Vice President: The Twelfth, Twentieth, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery to Civil Rights: The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Twenty-Fourth Amendments CHAPTER 8 Money Makes the World Go Round: The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Twenty-Seventh Amendments CHAPTER 9 To Drink or Not to Drink, that is the Question: The Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments CHAPTER 10¿New Voters: The Nineteenth, Twenty-Third, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments Afterword: Looking Back and Going Forward
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