Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: The Bill of Rights

Introduction: The First Bill of Rights Day

Chapter 1: Fighting the Crown

Chapter 2: Opposing the Constitution

Chapter 3: Drafting the Amendments

Chapter 4: Wandering in the Wilderness

Chapter 5: Reconstructing the Union

Chapter 6: Justifying Imperialism

Chapter 7: Defending The New Deal

Chapter 8: Attacking The Führer

Chapter 9: Reinventing Judicial Review

Chapter 10: Waging the Cold War

Epilogue: A Sacred Relic

Appendix A: The English Declaration of Rights (1689)

Appendix B: The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Appendix C: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree at Stanford, his law degree at Yale, and spent one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Magliocca is the author of three other books on constitutional law and lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Reviews

"Highly Recommended." --CHOICE
"In his timely new book, 'The Heart of the Constitution,' Gerard N. Magliocca highlights how a key component of our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, has been a central touchstone for Americans throughout history....Now, as we face a new set of crises, from war to inequality to structural exclusion, a more dynamic debate over a 21st-century bill of rights might offer some avenues forward. Magliocca's book can help us start that debate."--K. Sabeel Rahman,
The Washington Post
"Magliocca provides fascinating insight into the origin and evolution of the Bill of Rights."--Lynne Maxwell, Library Journal
"Magliocca aims at a diligent readership: his diction is serious, often academic, and resolutely unbiased, and the narrative is definitive."--Kirkus Reviews