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  • A Preface to American Political Theory

    by Donald S. Lutz ...
    Donald Lutz begins A Preface to American Political Theory by explaining what the book doesn’t do.It doesn’t begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn’t answer the following questions: “What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, ... Read more

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  • The Practice of Constitutional Development

    Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

    by Filippo Sabetti, Donald Lutz, Ronald J. Oakerson, Vincent Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Audun Sandberg, Edella Schlager, James S. Wunsch0, William Blomquist1 ...
    This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in America and overseas.Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Asymptotic Integration of Differential and Difference Equations

    by Sigrun Bodine, Donald A. Lutz ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents the theory of asymptotic integration for both linear differential and difference equations. This type of asymptotic analysis is based on some fundamental principles by Norman Levinson. While he applied them to a special class of differential equations, subsequent work has shown that the same principles lead to asymptotic results for much wider classes of differential and also ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Roots of the Republic

    American Founding Documents Interpreted

    by Leo Hershkowitz, Richard B. Bernstein, Thomas E. Burke, John P. Kaminski, Donald S. Lutz, John M. Murrin, Ralph Ketcham ...
    Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays that explain what they mean, why they were written, and why they are important today. Each key ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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    by Gordon S. Wood ...
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  • The Public and Its Problems

    An Essay in Political Inquiry

    by John Dewey ...
    More than six decades after John Dewey’s death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its implications for democracy in an age of mass communication, bureaucracy, and ever-increasing social complexities, Dewey’s The Public and Its Problems, first published in 1927, remains vital to any discussion of today’s political issues.This edition of The ... Read more

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  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

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  • What Is Conservatism?

    by Frank S Meyer ...
    What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic—as relevant today as it was half a century ago.Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to be retreating into factions—Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and so on. But this illuminating book shows what unites conservatives even as it ... Read more

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  • Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth

    Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment

    by Robert George ...
    A wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America's leading public intellectuals.In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. George tackles one of the most vexing issues dividing Americans today. He argues that the "Age of Faith" of the Medieval period and the "Age of Reason" of the European Enlightenments have been followed by a modern ... Read more

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  • Taking Rights Seriously

    With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally free to disobey?A renowned philosopher enters the debate surrounding these questions. ... Read more

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  • Constituent Moments

    Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

    by Jason Frank ...
    Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Rights

    by William A. Edmundson ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    An Introduction to Rights is a readable and accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights. It is organized chronologically and discusses important historical events such as the French and American Revolutions. It treats a range of historical figures, including Grotius, Paley, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Burke, Godwin, Douglass, Mill ... Read more

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