Brian P. Smentkowski

Contributor

Website : Brian Smentkowski at Queens University of Charlotte

BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens University of Charlotte. Coauthor of Misreading the Bill of Rights.

Primary Contributions (45)

Articles

Sixteenth Amendment

Sixteenth Amendment, amendment (1913) to the Constitution of the United States permitting a federal income tax. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution empowers Congress to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare…

Twelfth Amendment

Sandra Day O’Connor

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Twenty-fifth Amendment

Twenty-second Amendment

Supreme Court of the United States

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Owen Josephus Roberts

Twenty-first Amendment

Twenty-third Amendment

Eleventh Amendment

Seventh Amendment

Publications (1)

Misreading the Bill of Rights: Top Ten Myths Concerning Your Rights and Liberties (March 2015)

By Kirby Goidel, Craig Freeman, Brian Smentkowski

The Bill of Rights―the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution―are widely misunderstood by many Americans. This book explores the widely held myths about the Bill of Rights, how these myths originated, why they have persisted, and the implications for contemporary politics and policy.• Carefully separates out widely held contemporary beliefs about the Bill of Rights and connects them to debates over meaning, enabling readers to see how the meaning of rights is historically and contextually determined•...