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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Presents the Bill of Rights in both its original version and in a translated version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to the creation of the document and its significance through history"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Constitution includes ten amendments, which are additions to the document. The ten amendments are called the Bill of Rights and they give American people important rights and freedoms.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Bill of Rights Primer presents a short historical survey of the people, events, decrees, legislation, writings, and cultural milestones in England and the American colonies that influenced the founding fathers as they drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Oculus Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This book helps you easily reach a deep understanding of the Bill of Rights by walking you through each amendment, clarifying the precise definitions of key words; providing the historical context you need to fully grasp and spirit and importance of the amendments; sharing powerfully insightful quotes on each amendment, straight from the Founders and their peers; supplying you with an extensive glossary of terms so you never get lost in a dictionary...
Author
Series
Peter Fallon novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main characters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard, are back for another treasure hunt through time. They have learned of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. The draft's marginal notes spell out, in shocking detail, the Founders' unequivocal intentions--the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. Peddled and purloined, trafficked and...
Publisher
Adansonia Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
'This hardcover book contains the three most pivotal documents in American history, in easy-to-read large print: The United States Declaration of Independence, adopted at the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia in July 1776. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the collective term of the first ten constitutional amendments, created in 1789 and ratified in 1791 at the Philadelphia Congress. The Constitutional Amendments - eleven...
Author
Series
Publisher
Applesauce Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Breaks down the documents that drove the American Revolution into easy-to-understand language with definitions of key words, profiles and prominent revolutionary figures, and behind-the-scenes facts about each document.
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A guide the citizenship and the American government, The Constitution Explained takes an even-handed approach to controversial issues and explores various points of view. It sheds a light on the differing and changing interpretations of the many broadly worded key phrases in the Constitution. You'll learn how the Constitution has been adopted to different times and various situations. You'll learn what it does-and does not-promise U.S. citizens....
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