For the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights

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Simon and Schuster, 13 Agu 1999 - 272 halaman
We the People have awesome responsibilities. If the Constitution really is to be an instrument of the People, as intended, it is imperative that we all understand this great document.

Read this book and keep it (and its copy of the Constitution) on your shelf. We all owe ourselves, and our fellow citizens, an education in our constitutional rights and responsibilities.

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ONE The Peoples Right to Amend the Constitution
11
TWO Why Amendment by the People Is Not Dangerous
20
THREE The Right to Make State Law by Plebiscite
34
Whats the Big Idea?
51
FIVE The Constitutional Right to Serve on Juries
59
The Constitutional Design
129
FOURTEEN The Constitutional Right to Serve in the Military
135
SIXTEEN Women in Combat
151
SEVENTEEN The Unconstitutionality of a National Draft ?
158
EIGHTEEN The Right to Bear Arms
169
NINTEEN Forty Acres and a Mule
190
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Akhil Reed Amar is a legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law and criminal procedure. He holds the position of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. A Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary US legal thinkers. Alan Hirsch is a neurologist and psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of smell and taste loss. He is the neurological director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago and a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center.

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