The Constitution Today: The Bill of Rights (Rebroadcast)
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-10-31/constitution-today-bill-rights-rebroadcast
The Bill of Rights is key to American law and government. It consists of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution and contains guarantees of essential rights and liberties of individual citizens omitted in the crafting of the original document. A closer look at the Bill of Rights and the diverse interpretations it evokes today.
Guests
Jeffrey Toobin
staff writer at The New Yorker; senior legal analyst for CNN, author of "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court" (Doubleday), and former Assistant U.S.Attorney in Brooklyn, New York.
A.E. Dick Howard
the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Nina Totenberg
NPR's legal affairs correspondent.
Susan Bloch
professor of law at Georgetown University.
The U.S. Constitution: Full Text
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