"Incorporating all pertinent materials, Neil H. Cogan devotes a chapter to each clause of the Bill of Rights. He presents each draft of the clause and every textual source, including the state convention proposals; the state, colonial, and English sources; and caselaw and treatises. He includes all the relevant debates in the First Congress and in the constitutional ratifying conventions, as well as the debate and discussion in the pamphlet literature, letters, and diaries of the time." "Cogan has verified the drafts, debates, and proposals against the original manuscripts and newspaper records of the Library of Congress and the National Archives. He has verified the state and colonial sources against original, pre-1789 law books in the outstanding collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia, among other libraries. The result is the most complete and useful record of the Bill of Rights available." "The Complete Bill of Rights is especially valuable for judges and lawyers and for scholars and students of law, history, and political science."--BOOK JACKET.