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  • US Constitution For Beginners

    by Steve Bachmann ...
    Series series For Beginners
    In a combination of witty text and illustrations U.S. Constitution For Beginners take a tongue-in-cheek look at America's most critical legal document. Author and lawyer Steve Bachmann has written a text that touches on the document's history beginning with the Magna Carta. He then traces the events that precipitated its writing the personalities and motives of the people who create it and its use ... Read more

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    A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families

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    The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power. Increasingly, they tend towards the condition of pipsqueak principalities like Liechtenstein and Monaco -- fancy-dress fodder for magazines that survive by telling us things we did not need to know about people we have hardly heard of.How then have kings and ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Israel

    A History of Power and Knowledge

    by Ilan Pappe ...
    **A major history of Zionism and the state of Israel—for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict and Middle Eastern politics“[Ilan Pappé] is . . . one of the few Israeli students of the conflict who write about the Palestinian side with real knowledge and empathy.” —Guardian**Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its ... Read more

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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 Executive Unbound

    After the Madisonian Republic

    by Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument has blazed hotter than ever. Many argue the Constitution itself is in grave danger. What is to be ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Arab Spring

    An Essay on Revolution and Constitutionalism

    by Antoni Abat i Ninet, Mark Tushnet ...
    Series series Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law
    Approaching the concept of Islamic constitutionalism from a comparative perspective, this thought-provoking study by Antoni Abat i Ninet and Mark Tushnet uses traditional Western political theory as a lens to develop a framework for analyzing the events known as the 'Arab Spring'.Writing with clarity and insight, the authors place Western and Arabic traditions into a constructive dialogue. They ... 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

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  • A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America

    Volume I

    by John Adams ...
    Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition!Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a profound work of political and governmental theory.What prompted Adams to write such a remarkable treatise was a letter, a letter exchanged between a French statesman and a Welsh ... Read more

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  • Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion

    Causes and Consequences

    by Jeffrey E. Cohen ...
    Although presidents may have a difficult time actually leading the public and Congress, voters still desire strong leadership from their commander in chief. In Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion, Jeffrey E. Cohen argues that the perception of presidential leadership in American politics is affected not so much by what presidents accomplish but by whether voters think their president is a ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Amendment in Flux

    The Roberts Court, Crime Control, and Digital Privacy

    by Michael C. Gizzi, R. Craig Curtis ...
    Click here to read the new Afterword.When the Founders penned the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, it was not difficult to identify the “persons, houses, papers, and effects” they meant to protect; nor was it hard to understand what “unreasonable searches and seizures” were. The Fourth Amendment... ... Read more

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  • Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution

    by Alison L Young ...
    Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation. The UK's Human Rights Act 1998 is regarded as an example of a commonwealth model of rights protections. ... Read more

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  • Managed Speech

    The Roberts Court's First Amendment

    by Gregory P. Magarian ...
    Our constitutional freedom to speak out against government and corporate power is always fragile, but today it faces unprecedented hazards. In Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, leading First Amendment scholar, Gregory Magarian, explores and critiques how the present U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has reshaped and degraded the law of expressive freedom. ... Read more

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