James Wilson versus the Bill of Rights
Progress, Popular Sovereignty, and the Idea of the U.S. Constitution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James R Zink (0009-0009-0466-4959, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-265 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912913513351 |
| OpenAlex | W2008616782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
Americans today may take the Bill of Rights for granted, but its inclusion in the U.S. Constitution originally was controversial. To understand why, I turn to James Wilson, a leading statesman of the founding era and the chief opponent of the Bill of Rights. Among other things, Wilson thought a bill of rights would bind future generations to an incomplete list of rights and deprive them of the right to define individual rights over time. His arguments against a constitutional bill of rights also offer a useful view of the complexity and diversity of American founding era thought
Adversary · Bill of rights · Civil rights · Constitution · Diversity (politics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Right to property · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Political Philosophy and Ethics
The Complete Anti-Federalist
Declaration of independence
Identity and Diversity in the History of Ideas
The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798
Response to S. Adam Seagrave’s “How Old Are Modern Rights
Ratifying the Constitution
To make a nation
Origins of the Bill of Rights
Rethinking America's Modernity
Should We Venerate That Which We Cannot Love? James Madison on Constitutional Imperfection
How Old Are Modern Rights
James Wilson and the Relation of the Scottish Metaphysics to American Political Thought
The Language of Liberty and Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |