The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First AmendmentIn this new edition of the acclaimed 1971 original, George Anastaplo provides us with a detailed legal, historical, and dialectical analysis of the First Amendment with special attention to the reasoning of the Founding Fathers. Supplementing the original text are thorough appendices, including an in-depth record of Anastaplo's own remarkable bar admission case, and extensive notes exploring a range of topics from important political events to the nature of American institutions, as well as a wealth of discriminating references and commentary pulling from anthropology, sociology, psychology, and literature. |
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A JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS | 3 |
THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND | 11 |
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW | 35 |
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