Our Besieged Bill Of Rights

Our Besieged Bill of RightsThere is a controversy in American law that reflects the uncertainty and division of contemporary American society. A universal and understandable concern with the rising rate of crime has led to a frustrating search for solutions. The frustration has bred drastic and desperate demands, among them, various proposals to alter the Constitution --or recent Supreme Court interpretations of it--in the hope that, thereby, law and order may be "restored." Some of th...