The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond

Book Overview

Americans have been claiming and defending rights since long before the nation achieved independence. But few Americans recognize how profoundly the nature of rights has changed over the past three hundred years. In The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond, Barry Alan Shain gathers together essays by some of the leading scholars in American constitutional law and history to examine the nature of rights claims in eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393446X
• ISBN13: 9780813934464
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"