Sources of Our Liberties: English and American Documents from Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights

xxii, 456 pp. "Freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights derive from a long and exciting legal tradition. This unique and usable volume provides thirty-six unabridged, annotated documents, both British and American, which together comprise that tradition. An introduction to each one explains its historical setting and significance in the emergence of Anglo-American civil liberties."