{"product_id":"the-bill-of-rights-a-users-guide-9780316415606","title":"The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide","description":"With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Bill of Rights: A User's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition to the Supreme Court expanded the right to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest of the Vietnam War established free speech rights for students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for privacy after police entered 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-year trademark battle for his band \"The Slants\" ended in a unanimous Supreme Court victory. Such people prove that, in the words of Judge Learned Hand, \"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court, can save it.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exploring the history, scope, and meaning of the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and extended new rights of equality to all-\u003ci\u003eThe Bill of Rights: A User's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful examination of the values that define American life and the tools that every citizen needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinda R. Monk, J.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, is a constitutional scholar, journalist, and nationally award-winning author. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she twice received the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, its highest honor for public education about the law. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution, Ordinary Americans: U.S. History Through the Eyes of Everyday People\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bill of Rights: A User's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e. For more than twenty-five years, Ms. Monk has written commentary for newspapers nationwide-including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword Contributor: \u003cb\u003eRuth Bader Ginsburg\u003c\/b\u003e: Born in 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended the Harvard and Columbia University Law Schools, and taught law at Rutgers and Columbia. During the 1970s, while teaching at Columbia, she was instrumental in launching the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, and became the leading advocate in the Supreme Court for gender equality. She was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1980 and to the US Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2009 \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e named Ginsburg among the 100 Most Powerful Women, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e named her one of their 1993 Women of the Year and in 2012 presented her with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e listed her as an Icon in the Time 100, and in 2016 \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e named her one of the World's Greatest Leaders.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523546222866,"sku":"9780316415606","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18a99eed-fbcf-4e23-9f24-fdca2b609022.jpg?v=1731151471","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bill-of-rights-a-users-guide-9780316415606","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}