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Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal
Summer, 1992, Page 631
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: A COMMENTARY *

George Anastaplo **

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. THE INTENTIONS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787

2. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION AND A BILL OF RIGHTS

3. PREDECESSORS TO THE AMERICAN BILL OF RIGHTS

4. THE PURPOSES AND EFFECTS OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS OF 1791

5. AMENDMENT I [Page 632]

6. AMENDMENTS II, III, AND IV

7. AMENDMENTS V, VI, VII, AND VIII

8. AMENDMENTS IX, X, XI, AND XII

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9. EDUCATION IN THE NEW REPUBLIC

10. THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION OF 1861

11. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OF 1862-1863

12. AMENDMENTS XIII, XIV, AND XV

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13. AMENDMENTS XVI, XVII, AND XIX

14. AMENDMENTS XVIII AND XXI

15. AMENDMENTS XX, XXII, XXIII, AND XXV

16. AMENDMENTS XXIII, XXIV, AND XXVI

17. THE CONSTITUTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

APPENDIX A: LETTERS EXCHANGED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JOHN ADAMS (1814)

APPENDIX B: THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION (1861)

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Note 1. The Editors have complied with the author's stylistic preferences in this Article.--Ed.

* This Commentary is based largely upon the Centennial Lectures delivered at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina, during the 1990- 1991 academic year. This Commentary, with additional appendices, is to be published in book form. The author is grateful for the help provided him at Lenoir-Rhyne College by John E. Trainer, Jr., J. Larry Yoder, Marianne Yoder, Joseph S. Mancos, and Beverly Heer, and by Stephen J. Vanderslice of Louisiana State University at Alexandria.

The author has prepared a similar Commentary on the United States Constitution. GEORGE ANASTAPLO, THE CONSTITUTION OF 1787: A COMMENTARY (1989). An earlier version of that book appears at 18 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 15 (1986). For a complete bibliography of the author's books, articles, and lectures, see 2 LAW AND PHILOSOPHY: THE PRACTICE OF THEORY; ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GEORGE ANASTAPLO 1073-1145 (John A. Murley, Robert L. Stone, and William T. Braithwaite eds., 1992).

** Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Professor Emeritus of Political Science and of Philosophy, Rosary College; and Lecturer in the Liberal Arts, The University of Chicago. A.B., 1948, J.D., 1951, Ph.D., 1964, The University of Chicago.