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  • The White House Vice Presidency

    The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden

    “I am nothing, but I may be everything,” John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the “nothing” part of Adams’s formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But a job that once was “not worth a bucket of warm spit,” according to John Nance Garner, became, in the hands of ... Leer más

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  • Mr. President

    How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive

    de Ray Raphael ...
    The little-known story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.On June 1, 1787, when the Federal Convention first talked of establishing a new executive branch, James Wilson moved that “the Executive consist of a single person.” To us this might sound obvious, but not so at the time. ... Leer más

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  • Constitutional Peril

    The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy

    de Bruce Fein ...
    Renowned attorney and political critic Bruce Fein reveals the dangers our Constitution and our nation have faced courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the switch. In blistering detail, he deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror--from the flouting of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the crippling of the Great Writ of habeas corpus--and forecasts ... Leer más

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  • A War Like No Other

    The Constitution in a Time of Terror

    de Owen Fiss ...
    "A scholarly and cautionary collection of essays focusing on what [Fiss] views as the post-9/11 debasements of key provisions of the Constitution" ( Kirkus Reviews ).A leading legal scholar for more than thirty years, Owen Fiss's focus was civil procedure and equal protection. But when the War on Terror began to shroud legal proceedings in secrecy, he realized the bulwarks of procedure that shield ... Leer más

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Leer más

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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... Leer más

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  • The Federal Appointments Process

    A Constitutional and Historical Analysis

    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the process, other legislative matters, or broader social, political, and historical developments. The Federal ... Leer más

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  • Presidential War Power

    Third Edition, Revised

    de Louis Fisher ...
    A classic and bestselling work by one of America’s top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era.In this third edition, Louis Fisher updates his arguments throughout, critiques the presidential actions of George W. Bush and ... Leer más

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  • Long Wars and the Constitution

    In a wide-ranging constitutional history of presidential war decisions from 1945 to the present, Stephen M. Griffin rethinks the long-running debate over the “imperial presidency” and concludes that the eighteenth-century Constitution is inadequate to the challenges of a post-9/11 world.The Constitution requires the consent of Congress before the United States can go to war. Truman’s decision to ... Leer más

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  • Lawless

    The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law

    In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein provides a lively, scholarly account of how the Obama administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law.Lawless documents how President Barack Obama has presided over one constitutional debacle after another-Obamacare; unauthorized wars in the Middle East; attempts to strip property owners, college students, ... Leer más

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  • High Skill Migration and Recession

    Gendered Perspectives

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe. ... Leer más

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  • The EU's Role in Global Governance

    The Legal Dimension

    For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage. The EU has a uniquely strong and legally binding mission statement to pursue international relations on a multilateral basis, founded on the progressive development of international law. The political vision was for the EU to export its values of ... Leer más

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