Perfecting the U.s. Constitution - 27 and Counting, the Amendments That Shaped Americas Future

This book tells the story of each Constitutional Amendment and the role that the Amendments have played in shaping the American experience. Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; THE BILL OF RIGHTS; CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Rights: The First Amendment; CHAPTER 2 Bearing Arms: The Second Amendment; CHAPTER 3 Innocent until Proven Guilty: The Third through Eighth Amendments; CHAPTER 4 This and No More: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments; AMENDMENTS ELEVEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN; CHAPTER 5 What Federal Courts Cannot Do: The Eleventh Amendment ; CHAPTER 6 The President and Vice President: The Twelfth, Twentieth, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments; CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery to Civil Rights: The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Twenty-Fourth Amendments; CHAPTER 8 Money Makes the World Go Round: The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Twenty-Seventh Amendments; CHAPTER 9 To Drink or Not to Drink, that is the Question: The Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments; CHAPTER 10¿New Voters: The Nineteenth, Twenty-Third, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments; Afterword: Looking Back and Going Forward

About the author

Blaine Kaltman is a former U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer. He earned a doctorate from the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China.

Product details

• Authors: Blaine Kaltman, Kaltman Blaine, Blaine Kaltman Kaltman
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9781839996344
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-634-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Anthem Studies in Law Reform
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LAW / Constitutional, United States of America, USA, The Americas, Political structure and processes, Constitution: government and the state, For all educational levels, Constitutional and administrative law: general