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Title:

The South's role in the creation of the Bill of Rights : essays / by Jack P. Greene ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert J. Haws.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

v, 186 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Afro-Americans--History.--Southern States--History.
Civil rights--Southern States--History.
Slavery--History.--Southern States--History.
Rights
United States

Other Authors:

Greene, Jack P.
Haws, Robert J.
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, Jr., Symposium on Southern History (13th : 1987 : University of Mississippi)

Notes:

"Earlier versions of the essays which comprise this volume were presented at the thirteenth Porter L. Fortune, Jr., Symposium on Southern History at the University of Mississippi in October 1987" -- Introd. Series statement from jacket. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-178) and index.

Contents:

The Constitution of 1787 and the question of southern distinctiveness / Jack P. Greene -- Natural rights, bills of rights, and the people's rights in Virginia constitutional discourse, 1787-1791 / David Thomas Konig -- The "amending fathers" and the Constitution : changing perceptions of home rule and who should rule at home / Edward C. Papenfuse, Jr. -- Oral and written cultures : North Carolina and the Constitution, 1787-1791 / Walter F. Pratt, Jr. -- "The good old cause" : the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in South Carolina / James W. Ely, Jr. -- Constitutional silences : Georgia, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights : a historical test of originalism / Peter Charles Hoffer.

Series:

[Chancellor's symposium series]

ISBN:

9780878054947
0878054944

OCLC:

(OCoLC)22663664

LCCN:

90021707

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)