Tuesday, June 19, 2018

The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights Gerard Magliocca

In The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights Gerard Magliocca shows that, for our first century, the Bill of Rights was not the heart of the Constitution. Indeed, it was not regularly called “the Bill of Rights” until well into the twentieth century. Anatomically it was more of an appendix of the Constitution―a useless appendage.

https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-heart-of-the-matter/