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“jerome h skolnick”

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  • Justice Without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society

    by Jerome H. Skolnick ...
    New Fourth Edition of the acclaimed and foundational study of police culture and practice, political accountability, application of and obedience to the rule of law in stops and arrests, and the dilemma of law versus order in free societies--by a renowned sociologist using innovative and influential observation research techniques. With new Preface by the author and new Foreword by Candace McCoy. ... Read more

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    Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge, points out, almost every one of the Justices fits into a very small number of types regardless of ideology: the hero, the soldier, the ... Read more

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  • Everything You Need To Know About America’s 3 Biggest Political Issues in Under 1000 Words

    by Liam Wall ...
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    American Politics is full of dubious, perplexing and corrupt debates.However, as a democratic nation, it is absolutely necessary that we are well-versed with the concerns of our country.I have done research on the primary discussions going on in Washington at present and found three core policy matters. Summing up my study in a brief yet comprehensive document, I have presented views of both sides ... Read more

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  • The New British Constitution

    by Professor Vernon Bogdanor ...
    The last decade has seen radical changes in the way we are governed. Reforms such as the Human Rights Act and devolution have led to the replacement of one constitutional order by another. This book is the first to describe and analyse Britain's new constitution, asking why it was that the old system, seemingly hallowed by time, came under challenge, and why it is being replaced.The Human Rights ... Read more

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  • A Constitution of Many Minds

    Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Terms of Engagement

    How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government

    by Clark M. Neily III ...
    The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America’s judges have largely abdicated that responsibility. All too often, instead of judging the constitutionality of government action, courts simply ... Read more

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  • Everyone’s Guide to South African Law

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    by Adriaan Anderson ...
    The law affects us all, and even your most basic day-to-day choices and actions have legal implications. Yet few people have much knowledge of the law or understand complicated legal terminology – and lawyers’ fees are beyond many people’s reach. This book will provide you with the necessary information on a wide range of legal issues that may impact on your daily life – at work, in the home, on ... Read more

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  • Cosmic Constitutional Theory

    Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

    by J. Harvie Wilkinson, III ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging ... Read more

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  • Unfinished Business

    Racial Equality in American History

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing that we have made less progress than we like to think. Indeed, African Americans have had to ... Read more

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  • The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth

    The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution

    by Nicholas Aroney ...
    By analysing original sources and evaluating conceptual frameworks, this book discusses the idea proclaimed in the Preamble to the Constitution that Australia is a federal commonwealth. Taking careful account of the influence which the American, Canadian and Swiss Constitutions had upon the framers of the Australian Constitution, the author shows how the framers wrestled with the problem of ... Read more

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  • The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

    Theory and Practice

    by Stephen Gardbaum ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Stephen Gardbaum argues that recent bills of rights in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia are an experiment in a new third way of organizing basic institutional arrangements in a democracy. This 'new Commonwealth model of constitutionalism' promises both an alternative to the conventional dichotomy of legislative versus judicial supremacy and innovative techniques for protecting ... Read more

    $41.89 USD