Description: While there are several references that deal with the American Constitution as a whole or the Bill of Rights, none offer researchers background and detail specifically related to amendments to the Constitution. The Constitutional Amendments remedies that situation by offering users a single source on the history and significance of all 27 amendments as well as those proposed but unratified. Arranged by amendment, each chapter includes the full text of the amendment as well as an original essay on the social and political contexts in which it originated. This is followed by chronological coverage of the significant issues, events, figures, movements and judicial or legislative actions relating specifically to its implementation and interpretation. Other features include a guest foreword, a separate chapter on unratified amendments, general bibliography, a chronology, subject index, case index, glossary, an appendix presenting the full text of the Constitution and 100 illustrations.

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