The Bill of Rights: A User’s Guide Audiobook (Free)

Having a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.

An Engaging, Accessible Guidebook to the Expenses of Privileges for Everyday Citizens.

In The Expenses of Rights: A User’s Guideline, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable background of the Bill of Privileges amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of every right, and the power of people to enforce those privileges.

Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come about The Costs of Rights: A User’s Instruction alive are featured throughout. Included in these are Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a nationwide civil rights head; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition towards the Supreme Court expanded the proper to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest of the Vietnam Battle established free talk rights for college students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for personal privacy after police got into his bedroom unlawfully; Suzette Kelo, a nurse who opposed the city’s takeover of her working-class neighborhood; and Simon Tam, a millennial whose 10-season trademark battle for his band ‘The Slants’ finished inside a unanimous Supreme Courtroom triumph. Such people demonstrate that, in the words of Judge Discovered Hand, ‘Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, simply no constitution, no regulation, no courtroom, can conserve it.’

Exploring the history, scope, and signifying from the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and extended new rights of equality to all-The Bill of Privileges: A User’s Help is a powerful examination of the values define American life and the various tools that each citizen needs.

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