The Words We Live by: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution - Hardcover

Monk, Linda R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786867205 ISBN 13: 9780786867202

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2003

Synopsis

An award-winning journalist analyzes the Constitution, line by line, to help readers understand this historical document, which set the stage for the evolution of the United States, covering everything from the Preamble to the Bill of Rights with insight, legal expertise, trivia, divergent interpretations, and anecdotes that show how the Constitution affects modern life. 30,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Linda R. Monk has twice won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, it's highest honor for public education about law. Her book,The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, won the Silver Gavel, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has written the Foreword to the new third edition (2000). Ms. Monk also won the Silver Gavel in 1998 for her work on the documentaryProfiles of Freedom: A Living Bill of Rights. A graduate of Harvard Law School with an emphasis in constitutional law, Ms. Monk has written numerous articles on legal and historical issues for newspapers nationwide--among them the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Des Moines Register. She is also the editor ofOrdinary Americans: U.S. History Through the Eyes of Everyday People, a collection of 200 first-person accounts of history as the average American actually lived it. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786867205
• ISBN 13: 9780786867202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288