Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I CREATION -- One First Things First -- Two Our First Amendment -- Three The Military Amendments -- Four Searches, Seizures, and Takings -- Five Juries -- Six The Popular-Sovereignty Amendments -- PART II RECONSTRUCTION -- Seven Antebellum Ideas -- Eight The Reconstruction Amendment: Text -- Nine The Reconstruction Amendment: History -- Ten Refining Incorporation -- Eleven Reconstructing Rights -- Twelve A New Birth of Freedom -- Afterword -- Appendix: Amendments I-X and XIV -- Notes -- Index.