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  • The U.S. Supreme Court and Racial Minorities

    Two Centuries of Judicial Review on Trial

    Series series Elgar Studies in Law and Society
    The U.S. Supreme Court and Racial Minorities offers an in-depth, chronologically arranged look at the record of the U.S. Supreme Court on racial minorities over the course of its first two centuries. It does not pose the anachronistic standard, ''Did the Supreme Court get it right?'' but rather, ''How did the Supreme Court compare to other branches of the federal government at the time?'' Have ... Read more

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  • Martha Washington

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    Series series History's All-Stars
    Explore the childhood of Martha Washington and find out why she’s an all-star in American history!Martha Washington was a wife, mother, and the first First Lady of the United States, but what was she like as a child?In this narrative biography, you’ll learn all about Martha Washington’s childhood, from her birth on June 2, 1731, to her time growing up on her parents’ Virginia plantation, to ... Read more

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  • Constituting Federal Sovereignty

    The European Union in Comparative Context

    Series series The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought
    Addresses why, when, and how sovereign states give up some of their sovereignity to form a larger unionStarting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

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    First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great Britain.Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." ... Read more

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    Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state ... Read more

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    Lawyering for the Rule of Law introduces a new model of government lawyering in which government lawyers function as an ancillary mechanism that enables the court to expand its influence on policy-making within the political branches by forming out-of-court settlements. It discusses the centrality of government lawyers with regard to judicial mobilization and the enforcement of social reforms ... Read more

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  • Earth Jurisprudence

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    The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent value and becomes merely the matter of a human property relationship. Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment explores how an alternative conception of property might be instead grounded in the ecocentric ... Read more

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  • The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States

    Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history: the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, along with the Bill of Rights and successive constitutional amendments.With an introduction by Pauline Maier, a renowned scholar of the American Revolution.The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the ... Read more

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  • Harvard Law Review: Volume 129, Number 3 - January 2016

    The January 2016 issue, Number 3, features these contents:* Article, "Presidential Intelligence," by Samuel J. Rascoff* Book Review, "The Struggle for Administrative Legitimacy," by Jeremy K. Kessler (on Daniel Ernst's new book about the administrative state)* Note, "Existence-Value Standing"* Note, "Rethinking Closely Regulated Industries"In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on ... Read more

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  • The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2015

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