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America's founders understood that freedom's best defense is an educated citizenry. The America's Freedoms series provides that essential education.

Each title takes on a basic American freedom-speech, religion, bearing arms, privacy, property, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment. How were these freedoms originally conceived? How has history shaped them? What do they mean today? And what are the challenges that lie ahead? The America's Freedoms series answers these critical questions with exhaustive historical essays, extensive topical entries, and handy chronologies of events.