Fair Trial: Rights of the Accused in American History / Edition 1

by David J. Bodenhamer

Overview

The only comprehensive survey of rights of the accused in American history, this new text guides the reader through the development of these rights and their central relationship to liberty, justice, and social order. Integrating legal, social, and political history, Fair Trial focuses on the defendant's rights in theory and practice and traces developments in local and state courts as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court, recognizing that, throughout history, the expression and protection of rights has most often been a matter of local concern. The second volume in the Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights series, co-sponsored by the Organization of American Historians and Oxford University Press, this is an essential introduction to criminal due process and its importance to American liberty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195055597
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/31/1991
Series:	Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.98(w) x 5.35(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Colonial Background2. The Revolutionary Legacy3. Due Process in the New Republic4. The Meaning of Due Process, 1865-09305. Fair Trial, Federalism, and Rights of the Accused6. Judicial Liberalism and the Due Process Revolution7. Rights of the Accused in a Conservative AgeNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex