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  • The Rhetorical Presidency

    New Edition

    by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Jeffrey K. Tulis ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of American governance. Now with a new foreword by ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Legacies of Losing in American Politics

    by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Nicole Mellow ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also been built on defeated candidates, failed presidents, and social movements that at pivotal moments did not dissipate as expected but instead ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presidency in the Constitutional Order

    An Historical Examination

    Edited by Joseph M. Bessette, Jeffrey Tulis ...
    This classic collection of studies, first published in 1980, contributes to the revival of interest in the powers and duties of the American presidency. Unlike many previous books on the constitution and the president, the contributors to this volume are political scientists, not law professors. Accordingly, they display political scientists' concern with structures as well as power, with conflict ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Constitutional Democracy

    Edited by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Stephen Macedo ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What is constitutional democracy? When does it succeed or fail? Can constitutional democracies conduct war? Can they ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Beyond Checks and Balances

    The Political Purpose of the Separation of Powers

    by Jeffrey Edward Green, David Siemers, George Thomas, Jeffrey K. Tulis, Brigid Flaherty-Staab, Keith Whittington, Sotirios Barber, Kathleen Tipler, Mariah Zeisberg, Thomas Bell ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    An argument for understanding the separation of powers as a political arrangement designed to pursue the common democratic goodBeyond Checks and Balances seeks to rescue the democratic concept of the separation of powers from a popular caricature of it: that checks and balances exist between branches of government to frustrate, slow, and inhibit change. Long regarded as a legal doctrine that must ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

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  • The Originalism Trap

    How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

    by Madiba K. Dennie ...
    A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for understanding why the world sucks right now.”—Elie ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Active Liberty

    Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The American Supreme Court

    by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Covenant

    How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again

    by Yuval Levin ...
    **A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic culture, rescue our malfunctioning politics, and unify a fractious America“Salient and timely.” —Wall Street Journal**Common ground is hard to find in today’s politics. In a society teeming with clashing political perspectives, many people have grown frustrated under a system of government that ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Our Republican Constitution

    Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People

    by Randy E. Barnett ...
    A concise history of the long struggle between two fundamentally opposing constitutional traditions, from one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars—a manifesto for renewing our constitutional republic.The Constitution of the United States begins with the words: “We the People.” But from the earliest days of the American republic, there have been two competing notions of “the People,” ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Weak Courts, Strong Rights

    Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Constitutional Law

    by Michael C. Dorf, Trevor W. Morrison ...
    Series series Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
    The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law presents an accessible introduction to the enduring topics of American constitutional law, including judicial review, methods of interpretation, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection, and individual liberties. One of the most important functions performed by the American Constitution and the more than two centuries' worth of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD