The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties

by Patrick T. Conley

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Fourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.

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Patrick T. Conley and Paul Campbell, natives of South Providence, know the highlights of their neighborhood from actual experience and from their expertise as Providence historians. This is the fourth book about Providence on which they have collaborated. Combined they have spent 124 years living or working in the South Providence neighborhood-a show more place they never left. show less

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