CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
Bill of Rights in Action
Summer 2007 (Volume 23, No. 2)
Rights Reconsidered
Throughout history, individual rights have been considered and reconsidered. This edition of Bill of Rights in Action looks at three such cases. The first article examines the historic case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two immigrants tried, convicted, and executed for robbery and murder. The second article looks at Edmund Burke, who disdained the "rights of man," but championed the "rights of Englishmen." The last article explores the case of Mendez v. Westminster, an important forerunner to Brown v. Board of Education.
U.S. History: Sacco and Vanzetti
World History: Edmund Burke
Government: Mendez v. Westminster
Lucy Eisenberg, Esq., contributed the article on Sacco and Vanzetti. The other articles were written by our longtime contributor Carlton Martz.
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Officers: Hon. John A. Kronstadt, President; Publications Committee: Marvin S. Sears, Chairperson; Katrina M. Dewey, Rachel L. Helyar, Marshall P. Horowitz, Walter R. Lancaster, Marcus M. McDaniel, Dian Ogilvie, Peter I. Ostroff, Thomas E Patterson, Lisa M. Rockwell, Patrick G. Rogan, Peggy Saferstein, Paul W.A. Severin, K. Eugene Shutler, Gail Midgal Title, Russell C. Swartz, Douglas A. Thompson, Lois D. Thompson, Carlton Varner. Staff: Todd Clark, Executive Director; Marshall L. Croddy, Director of Programs; Lucy Eisenberg, Carlton Martz, Writers; Bill Hayes, Editor; Andrew Costly, Senior Publications Manager; Lois D. Thompson,CRF Board Reviewer.
