Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights Only Bassanio's heartfelt efforts --

Only Bassanio's heartfelt efforts -- and a clever intervention by Portia -- will save Antonio from paying Shylock "a pound of flesh

Anyone who has tried to have fun or to relax or to fall asleep knows this to be true

written and spoken

Ridley Scott

Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights Only Bassanio's heartfelt efforts --Meet the rebels, robbers, radicals, determined teenagers, and ordinary Americans who shaped our Constitutional rights. The first ten amendments of the U. S. Constitution known as the Bill of Rights include the guarantee that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Yet this soaring vision of human rights was written by enslavers who deprived others of these rights. The struggle to resolve this paradox