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“edward keynes”

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  • The Court vs. Congress

    Prayer, Busing, and Abortion

    by Edward Keynes, Randall K. Miller ...
    Since the early 1960s the Supreme Court and its congressional critics have been locked in a continuing dispute over the issues of school prayer, busing, and abortion. Although for years the Court’s congressional foes have introduced legislation designed to curb the powers of the federal courts in these areas, they have until now failed to enact such proposals. It is likely that these legislative ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Liberty, Property, and Privacy

    Toward a Jurisprudence of Substantive Due Process

    by Edward Keynes ...
    In this book, Edward Keynes examines the fundamental-rights philosophy and jurisprudence that affords constitutional protection to unenumerated liberty, property, and privacy rights. He is critical of the failure of the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a coherent theory for identifying which rights are to be considered fundamental and how these private rights are to be balanced against the public ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    by Conrado Hübner Mendes ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed ... Read more

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  • The Federalist

    A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

    by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy that exists. They ... Read more

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  • Power Wars

    The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

    by Charlie Savage ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state.Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself ... Read more

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  • A Trial by Jury

    by D. Graham Burnett ...
    When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning act of violence, a maze of conflicting evidence, and a parade of bizarre witnesses. But it is ... Read more

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  • The Corruption Chronicles

    Obama's Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government

    by Tom Fitton ...
    WASHINGTON’S MOST CORRUPT: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAFLOUTING OF FEDERAL LAW * CORRUPTION * VIOLATING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS * TERRORIST TIES * VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD * GOVERNMENT CON GAMES * EXTORTIONBECAUSE NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!In 2008, Barack Obama made a promise to have the “most transparent administration” of any U.S. president; it was the very cornerstone of his campaign. No secrets. ... Read more

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  • Sonia Sotomayor

    The True American Dream

    by Antonia Felix ...
    "Necessary reading" (Booklist) from a New York Times bestselling biographer.Drawing on in-depth interviews with Sonia Sotomayor's former colleagues, family, friends, and teachers, New York Times bestselling biographer Antonia Felix explores Sotomayor's childhood, the values her parents instilled in her, and the events that propelled her to the highest court in the land. With insight and thoughtful ... Read more

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  • The English Constitution

    by Walter Bagehot ...
    In one of Walter Bagehot's most prominent works, the English constitution is described, not from law books and as a lawyer would describe it, but from the actual working, as Bagehot himself had witnessed it, in his contact with ministers and the heads of government departments, and with the life of the society in which the politicians moved. The true springs and method of action are consequently ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Edited by Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges ... Read more

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  • Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

    The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History

    by Keith E. Whittington ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not simply seized power and circumvented politics. The justices have had power thrust upon them--by politicians, for the ... Read more

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  • The End of the Charter Revolution

    Looking Back from the New Normal

    by Peter J. McCormick ...
    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies in Canadian politics. Although the impact of the Charter on Canadian law and society was ... Read more

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