Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights

by David J. Bodenhamer

The only comprehensive survey of rights of the accused in American history, this new text guides the reader through the development of these rights and their central relationship to liberty, justice, and social order. Integrating legal, social, and political history, Fair Trial focuses on the defendant's rights in theory and practice and traces developments in local and state courts as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court, recognizing that, throughout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195055594
• ISBN13: 9780195055597
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"