Bills of Rights Before the Bill of Rights

Peter J. Galie is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Canisius College in Buffalo in New York, USA. He is the author of Ordered Liberty: A Constitutional History of New York (996), the coauthor (with Christopher Bopst) of The New York State Constitution, 2nd ed. (2012), and the co-editor (with Bopst and Gerald Benjamin) of New York's Broken Constitution: The Governance Crisis and the Path to Renewed Greatness (2016).Christopher Bopst is Special Counsel at Wilder & Linneball, LLP in Buffalo in New York, USA. He is the coauthor (with Peter J. Galie) of The New York State Constitution, 2nd ed. (2012), and the co-editor (with Galie and Gerald Benjamin) of New York's Broken Constitution: The Governance Crisis and the Path to Renewed Greatness (2016).Bethany R. Kirschner is an Associate at Woehrle Dahlberg Jones Yao PLLC in Fredericksburg in Virginia, USA. She has conducted extensive research on early bills of rights and is the author of an article on Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Rights in Colonial America: 1620-1776.- 3. The Rights Tradition in America's First Constitution.- 4. Virginia.- 5. Pennsylvania.- 6. Maryland.- 7. Delaware.- 8. North Carolina.- 9. Vermont.- 10. Massachusetts.- 11. New Hampshire.- 12. South Carolina.- 13. New Jersey.- 14. Georgia.- 15. New York.- 16. Connecticut.- 17. Rhode Island.- 18. Reflections.