THE BILL OF RIGHTS
since the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission opened for business in 1966. Americans have been benumbed by celebra- tions of big historical events. The indifference that one detects toward the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights is also evident in the scholarship on the origins of that document. Until the 1950s, scholars largely ignored the subject, with the result that, according to one expert, there is no good book on it.
What writing there has been on the birth of...