Overview

The Bill of Rights was written more than 200 years ago, but it's still just as relevant and important today as it was back then. Readers will take a look at what caused the Tenth Amendment to be born and what effects the amendment has had through history and today.

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9781515771753

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These attractive volumes deftly analyze the causes and effects of the respective amendments. Each offers a brief overview of the issue involved, such as the history of guns in colonial America, and proceeds to list and examine the reasons behind each amendment. . . .All of the books contain the entirety of the Bill of Rights. The writing is succinct, but the information is quite comprehensive. Nicely done accounts of the history of the Bill of Rights. A valuable addition to school and public libraries.-- School Library Journal

These attractive volumes deftly analyze the causes and effects of the respective amendments. Each offers a brief overview of the issue involved, such as the history of guns in colonial America, and proceeds to list and examine the reasons behind each amendment. . . .All of the books contain the entirety of the Bill of Rights. The writing is succinct, but the information is quite comprehensive. Nicely done accounts of the history of the Bill of Rights. A valuable addition to school and public libraries.-- ""School Library Journal""

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Elizabeth Raum has written over two-dozen nonfiction books for young readers, including a biography of Louis Armstrong for Capstone Press. Over the years, she has worked as a middle school and high school English teacher, an elementary school librarian, and a college library director. Elizabeth Raum has written many nonfiction books for children. Two of her Capstone You Choose books, Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure (2011) and Can You Survive Storm Chasing? (2012), are Junior Library Guild selections. Elizabeth lives in Michigan with her husband, Richard.

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