A Treatise on Rights and Liberties

PRINCIPAL EDITOR: KEN GORMLEY
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: JEFFREY BAUMAN, JOEL FISHMAN
LESLIE KOZLER and RYAN O. HEMMINGER

Published: May, 2004
Most recent supplement/update: 2010 supplement; released 12/09; $87.00
(Current Subscriber's Price: $69.50)
Library of Congress Number: 2004101732
ISBN: 1-887024-94-8

1 VOLUME, HARDBOUND, 1000 PAGES, PRICE: $199.00

The publication of this book is the first in 100 years to provide a comprehensive treatment of the State Constitution's individual rights provisions. Organized to correspond to the 28 provisions of the Declaration of Rights, this title allows the reader to gather the critical material necessary to comply with the protocol set forth in the landmark Commonwealth v. Edmunds decision. The treatise proceeds methodically with a treatment of each of the provisions of the Declaration of Rights, assembling detailed history, hard-to-find caselaw, and related caselaw from other states. This is the one indispensable resource tool that provides judges and practitioners with the relevant material to engage in a thorough, scholarly state constitutional analysis with respect to hundreds of important issues.

Foreword by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Ralph J. Cappy
Introductory Chapters
1.	Overview of Pennsylvania Constitutional Law — Ken Gormley
2.	State Constitutional Law: The Building Blocks — Ken Gormley
3.	History of the Pennsylvania Constitution — John Gedid
Constitutional Provisions
4.	Inherent Rights of Mankind — Elizabeth Wachsman and Ken Gormley
5.	Political Powers — Harry Witte
6.	Religious Freedom — Gary Gildin
7.	Religion — Gary Gildin
8.	Elections — Amy Elizabeth McCall
9.	Trial by Jury — Jessica Rhoades
10.	Protection of Free Expression — Seth Kreimer
11.	Searches and Seizures — David Rudovsky
12.	Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions — Sally Kaye
13.	Initiation of Criminal Proceedings — Jennifer DiGiovanni, Anthony Kovalchick, Leslie Kozler
14.	Courts to Be Open; Suits Against the Commonwealth — Donald Marritz
15.	The Suspension of Laws — Robert Kravetz
16.	Bail, Fines and Punishments — Bruce Ledewitz
17.	Prisoners to Be Bailable; Habeas Corpus — Rebecca Spangler
18.	Special Criminal Tribunals — Amy Constantine
19.	Debtors May Not be Imprisoned in Absence of Fraud — Robert Kravetz
20.	Ex Post Facto Laws; Impairment of Contracts — Richard Cromer
21.	Prohibition Against Bills of Attainder — Robert Kravetz
22.	No Attainder Shall Work Corruption of Blood — Robert Kravetz
23.	Right to Bear Arms — Jeffrey Bauman
24.	Prohibition of Standing Armies; Military Subordinate to Civil Power — Robert Kravetz
25.	No Quartering of Troops — Robert Kravetz
26.	Titles of Nobility — Robert Kravetz
27.	Reservation of Rights Excepted Out of General Powers of Government — Robert Kravetz
28.	No Discrimination by Commonwealth and its Political Subdivisions — Jason Hardiman
29.	Natural Resources and the Public Estate — John Dernbach
30.	Prohibition Against Denial or Abridgement of Equality of Rights Because of Sex — Honorable Phyllis Beck and Patricia Daly
Miscellaneous Topics
31.	Pennsylvania's Equality Provisions — Robert Williams
32.	Due Process Rights — Frederick Rapone
33.	The Right to Privacy — Seth Kreimer
34.	State Action and the Declaration of Rights — Nancy Burkoff
35.	Amending the Pennsylvania Constitution — Harry Witte