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  • Mrs. Dred Scott

    A Life on Slavery's Frontier

    by Lea VanderVelde ...
    Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Redemption Songs

    Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott

    by Lea VanderVelde ...
    The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of slaves suing for freedom. Most examinations of the case focus on its notorious verdict, and the repercussions that the decision set off-especially the worsening of the sectional crisis that would eventually lead to the Civil War-were extreme. In conventional assessment, a slave losing a lawsuit against his master seems unremarkable. But in fact, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Citizens Divided

    Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution

    by Robert C. Post, Pamela S. Karlan, Lawrence Lessig, Frank Michelman, Nadia Urbinati ...
    Series Book 8 - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
    The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert C. Post offers a new ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 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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  • America's Forgotten Constitutions

    by Robert L. Tsai ...
    Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Buying the Vote

    A History of Campaign Finance Reform

    by Robert E. Mutch ...
    Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters. The tenets that corporations do not ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Originalism and the Good Constitution

    by John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport ...
    Originalism holds that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at the time it was enacted. In their innovative defense of originalism, John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport maintain that the text of the Constitution should be adhered to by the Supreme Court because it was enacted by supermajorities—both its original enactment under Article VII and subsequent Amendments ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Dissent and the Supreme Court

    Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

    by Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    “Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." —The Los Angeles Review of BooksIn his major work*,* acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Lawyers Who Made America

    From Jamestown to the White House

    by Anthony Arlidge ...
    No other nation's creation, both politically and socially, owes such a debt to lawyers as the United States of America. This book traces the story of that creation through the human lives of those who played important parts in it: amongst others, of English lawyers who established the form of the original colonies; of the Founding Fathers, who declared independence and created a Constitution; of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth

    Peace, Order and Good Government

    by Hakeem O. Yusuf ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
    The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries. Since its introduction, the clause has played a significant role in colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism in Commonwealth jurisdictions.This book is the first full length analysis of the various dimensions of the peace, order and good government clause. It argues that the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Signposts

    New Directions in Southern Legal History

    by Alfred L. Brophy, Charles L. Zelden, Christopher Schmidt, Christopher Waldrep, Cynthia Nicoletti, Jennifer M. Spear, Jessica Lowe, Laura F. Edwards, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Peter Wallenstein, Roman J. Hoyos0, Susan Richbourg Parker1, Thomas N. Ingersoll2, Tim Alan Garrison3, Sally E. Hadden5, Patricia Hagler Minter7, James W. Ely Jr.8 ...
    In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?

    by Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. ...
    "Great cases like hard cases make bad law" declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their national importance, interest, or other extreme circumstance, make for poor bases upon which to construct a general law. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD