Leonard Levy, whose Origins of the Fifth Amendment received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in American History, is widely recognized as one of our nation's preeminent constitutional historians. This book brings together his essays--four never before published--written over the past two decades. Although this collection spans the entire course of American history, Levy focuses primarily on colonial America and the Constitutional period. His essays cover a broad range of subjects, including free speech in the 17th century, John Liburne and the rights of the English, Quaker blasphemy and toleration, the Zenger case, the First and Ffifth Amendments, Jefferson as civil libertarian, and judicial activism. Levy's previously unpublished works offer new discussions of the history of our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the establishment clause of the First Amendment, and the right against self-incrimination.
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About the Author:
Leonard W. Levy, Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History, Claremont Graduate School.
Review:
"[Levy] is one of America's foremost legal and constitutional historians....[This is a] lively, controversial, and brilliant collection."--Georgia Historical Quarterly
"A timely collection of essays by a leading authority on the intellectual history of civil liberties."--Journal of the Early Republic
"[Levy] writes with a delightful (and seductive) style, of individuals as much as ideas and rules."--International and Comparative Law Quarterly
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0195036417
- ISBN 13 9780195036411
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288