For the people : what the constitution really says about your rights / Akhil Reed Amar and Alan Hirsch.
1998
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Author
Title
For the people : what the constitution really says about your rights / Akhil Reed Amar and Alan Hirsch.
Published
New York : Free Press, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
KF4550.Z9 A43 1998
ISBN
0684826941
Description
xxi, 259 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37705267
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-251) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Pt. 1
the Ballot Box
1The People's Right to Amend the Constitution
3
2Why Amendment by the People Is Not Dangerous
20
3The Right to Make State Law by Plebiscite
34
Pt. 2
the Jury Box
4The Jury: What's the Big Idea?
51
5The Constitutional Right to Serve on Juries
59
6The Unconstitutionality of Peremptory Challenges
64
7Rethinking the For-Cause Dismissal
79
8The Right of Young Adults to Serve on Juries
86
9Jury Review
93
10Jury Nullification
105
11The Public's Right to a Jury Trial
115
12Suing Our Servants
120
Pt. 3
the Cartridge Box
13National Security: the Constitutional Design
129
14The Constitutional Right to Serve in the Military
135
15Gays in the Military
140
16Women in Combat
151
17The Unconstitutionality of a National Draft (?)
158
18The Right to Bear Arms
169
Pt. 4
the Lunch Box
19Forty Acres and a Mule
183
Conclusion
200
App
The Constitution of the United States
203
End Notes
227
Index
253