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And who enjoyed these rights, however understood?. Or only economically privileged and militarily responsible male heads of households?. by Barry Alan Shain. --Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland, author of Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil.

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Americans have been claiming and defending rights since long before the nation achieved independence. But few Americans recognise 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 America and how they differed, if at all, from today's understandings. Was America at its founding predominantly individualistic or, in some important way, communal? Similarly, which understanding of rights was of greater centrality: the historical rights of Englishmen or abstract natural rights? And who enjoyed these rights, however understood? Everyone? Or only economically privileged and militarily responsible male heads of households? The contributors also consider how such concepts of rights have continued to shape and reshape the American experience of political liberty to this day. Beginning with the arresting transformation in the grounding of rights prompted by the American War of Independence, the volume moves through what the contributors describe as the Founders' Bill of Rights to the second Bill of Rights that coincided with the Civil War, and ends with the language of rights erupting from the horrors of the Second World War and its aftermath in the Cold War. By asking what kind of nation the founding generation left us, or intended to leave us, the contributors are then able to compare that nation to the nation we have become. Most, if not all, of the essays demonstrate that the nature of rights in America has been anything but constant, and that the rights defended in the late eighteenth century stand at some distance from those celebrated today.

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University of Virginia Press
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9780813934464
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Constitutional Law, Political Science
Author
Barry Alan Shain
Publication Name
The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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United States
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Barry Alan Shain

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