With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.

An Engaging, Accessible Guideline to the Costs of Privileges for Everyday Residents.

In The Expenses of Rights: A User’s Guidebook, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the impressive history of the Bill of Privileges amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of every right, and the energy of citizens to enforce those privileges.

Stories of the ordinary individuals who made the Costs of Privileges come about The Bill of Privileges: A User’s Guidebook alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a nationwide civil rights head; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition to the Supreme Courtroom expanded the proper to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest from the Vietnam War established free talk rights for students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for personal privacy after police came into his bedroom unlawfully; Suzette Kelo, a nurse who compared the city’s takeover of her working-class neighborhood; and Simon Tam, a millennial whose 10-calendar year trademark fight for his music group ‘The Slants’ ended within a unanimous Supreme Court success. Such people demonstrate that, in the words of Judge Discovered Hand, ‘Liberty is based on the hearts of women and men; when it dies there, no constitution, no legislation, no courtroom, can save it.’

Exploring the history, scope, and indicating of the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and expanded new rights of equality to all-The Bill of Privileges: A User’s Help is a robust study of the values that define American life and the tools that every citizen needs.

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