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Price Hossell, Karen,
1957-
The Bill of Rights /
Karen Price Hossell.
Chicago :
Heinemann Library,
2004.
p. cm.
Historical documents.
Heinemann know it.
Historical documents
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Recording important events -- Storing valuable documents -- What is the Bill of Rights? -- Why a Bill of Rights? -- The Constitution is ratified -- Madison presents his ideas -- The House works on the Bill of Rights -- The Senate takes over -- Engrossing the Bill of Rights -- The ratification process -- The First Amendment: freedom of religion -- More about the First Amendment -- Amendments II and III -- Amendments IV and V -- Amendments VI and VII -- Amendments VIII through X -- Where did these rights come from? -- The Bill of Rights on display -- Restoring the Bill of Rights -- A conservation with a conservator.
Provides a history of the Bill of Rights, explains each of the amendments and the freedoms it protects, and describes how historical documents such as this can be restored and preserved.
20050411.
United States
Constitution
1st-10th Amendments
Juvenile literature.
United States
Constitution
1st-10th Amendments.
Constitutional amendments
United States.
Civil rights.
Historical documents.
Heinemann know it.
Historical documents.
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