Books
- Origins of the Bill of Rights by Leonard W. Levy
- The Great Rights of Mankind by Bernard Schwartz
History and implications of the Bill of Rights
- Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples
arranged for one volume by Henry Commager
- 1215: the Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger & John
Gillingham re-creates the life in the year of Magna Carta
- The Portable Thomas Jefferson edited by Merrill D. Peterson
- James Madison Writings selected and notes by Jack N. Rakove
- Free Speech in its forgotten years by David M. Rabban
- Freethinkers: a history of American secularism by Susan Jacoby
Implications of the Bill of Rights
- The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s unfinished revolution
and why we need it more than ever by Cass R. Sunstein
- Abortion and Divorce in Western Law by Mary Ann Glendon compares
U.S. policy guided by judicial decisions while Europe's often is by
legislative processes
- She’s Not There: a life in two genders by Jennifer
Finney Boylan
Religion and the Bill of Rights
- A New Religious America by Diana L. Eck — the values
of a religiously diverse America.
- Religion in American Public Life by A. James Reichley from
Brookings Institution
- One Electorate Under God? edited by E. J. Dionne, Jr., from
the Pew Forum
- What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel
A. Helminiak
- We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God’s Grace for Lesbians
and Gays. Forward by Desmond M. Tutu
The Bill of Rights and the Future
- As Sick as it Gets by Rudolph Mueller, MD — the reality
of America's health care; is health care an inalienable right?
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