The Bill of Rights: What It Is, What It Means, and How It's Been Misused

By Shannon Leigh Fallon

Book Overview

A detailed analysis of the Bill of Rights discusses the twenty-seven amendments to the Constitution, explaining what they are, what they mean today, and how they have been misused. IP. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880741253
• ISBN13: 9781880741252
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Dickens Pr
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Important facts to know!

The author writes very well. I like this book because it was very interesting. It was very informative. I did not know who we have misused our Bill of Rights.I am in the Fourth Grade, and this will help me with my class work. I will be able to go back to this book many times for help in the next years.

A Diffrent Perspective

With so many diffrent opinions on how to interpret the Bill of Rights, it is nice to see a clear, and concise interpritation by Mrs. Fallon. I may not agree with all points by the author but I truely enjoyed the elegance, and the simplicity of her writing style . If all educators put as much care into their teaching about the Bill of Rights as Mrs. Fallon did with her writing of it,this country would be far better off. Use the information in this book and combine it with all you know and have a better understanding of the Constitution.

Fill your Christmas stockings with this one.

Does the Bill of Rights, i.e. the first ten amendments to the Constitution, seem to you to be a moribund if not dead letter? Then you'll want to read, and want to give, Shannon Leigh Fallon's trenchant little book, The Bill of Rights: What It Is, What It Means and How It's Been Misused. I'm enthused by this book, not only because of its troubling subject matter, which is deadly serious, but because of another refreshing quality: It's mercifully short.Few publishers seem to have gotten the message, enforcing on writers the rule that books must consume 200 to 700 pages of pulp, which commonly results in ridiculous padding by authors, that our increasingly attention-deficited readers thirst for concision. Fallon's book revives a splendid custom of public philosophers and polemicists to write short, policy-oriented books.This is Fallon's first book (may there be many more), and it gets right to the point about our imperiled rights. With Waco and Ruby Ridge still in the news, and a tyrannical anti-terrorism bill about to Strip James Madison's legacy even more than our swelled national government already has, this is a potentially popular book that will help Americans revive their rights. Happily, Fallon explains, in lucid prose, why politically popular "group rights" are misnamed and untenable. For a right to be a legitimate right, damn it, it has to belong to an individual. Nor can it be a government-granted entitlement, such as free health care care or schooling. Get quantities of this one and give it to everyone on your list; it'll fit in a Christmas stocking.

The perfect companion book for Ambush at Ruby Ridge

The tragedies of Ruby Ridge and Waco are symptoms of a society in which the understanding that every person has certain rights that the government may not violate has become weakened. Without a renewed respect for the Bill of Rights grounded in intelligent knowledge, such violations of citizen rights could become commonplace. Shannon Fallon skillfully negotiates the sometimes slippery terrain of rights, responsibilities and entitlements to offer a solid understanding of how important it is to "preserve these rights," and what it will take to do so.