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  • Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

    by Victoria Nourse ...
    American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers’ most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It may even threaten the continued functioning of American democracy, as contempt for the legislature ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

    by Victoria Nourse ...
    American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers’ most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It may even threaten the continued functioning of American democracy, as contempt for the legislature ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • In Reckless Hands

    Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics

    by Victoria F. Nourse ...
    The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics.In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual criminals” and the “feebleminded.” But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma’s McAlester prison ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Active Liberty

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David J. Bodenhamer ...
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  • A Preface to Democratic Theory

    by Robert A. Dahl ...
    " A Preface to Democratic Theory is well worth the devoted attention of anyone who cares about democracy." — Political Science QuarterlyThis book by Robert Dahl helped launch democratic theory sixty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had been left unsolved by traditional thought on democracy, Dahl ... Read more

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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

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  • The Classical Liberal Constitution

    The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs ... Read more

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  • Worse Than Nothing

    The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
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  • The Tempting of America

    by Robert H. Bork ...
    Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the Constitution according to the “original understanding” of the Framers and the people for whom it was ... Read more

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  • The Rhetorical Presidency

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    by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Jeffrey K. Tulis ...
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