Description:The American Bill of
Rights is . . . a magic mirror," writes Bernard Schwartz, "wherein we
see reflected not only our lives, but the whole pageant of
Anglo-American constitutional development and all that those struggles
have meant in the history of freedom." Perhaps the finest short history
of the Bill of Rights ever written, this is an updated, expanded version
of the classic. The author has added an afterword that brings the
history of what Madison called "the great rights of mankind" through the
Rehnquist court, making this an invaluable study.