The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins

Rating:
Summary: Former Student of Dean Cogan
Review: I believe I speak for many of Dean Cogan's former constitutional law students. Dean Cogan used his constitutional law students as lab rats while writing his book and over half of the students dropped out of his class. The few remaining students were forced to re-learn constitutional law while taking their Bar Review class!

Rating:
Summary: Former Student of Dean Cogan
Review: It's hard to believe they let this one run out...it should be permanently in print. Cogan has done us all the great service of compiling a number of original-source texts related to the origins and debates that led up to the Bill of Rights. Delightfully, he stays out of it, and just presents the source materials, most of which most of us would never know existed or mattered if not for the way this book presents them. Drafts, relevant sections of various state constitutions, even newspaper articles of the day related to the Bill of Rights debates, are included. This is a big book and a little demanding, but well worth it if you are really interested in seeing how the Bill of Rights came into being.

Rating:
Summary: A national treasure!
Review: It's hard to believe they let this one run out...it should be permanently in print. Cogan has done us all the great service of compiling a number of original-source texts related to the origins and debates that led up to the Bill of Rights. Delightfully, he stays out of it, and just presents the source materials, most of which most of us would never know existed or mattered if not for the way this book presents them. Drafts, relevant sections of various state constitutions, even newspaper articles of the day related to the Bill of Rights debates, are included. This is a big book and a little demanding, but well worth it if you are really interested in seeing how the Bill of Rights came into being.