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  • New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation

    Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society

    Edición de Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, Darrell A. H. Miller ...
    The US Supreme Court recently held that the constitutionality of modern gun laws depends on whether they are "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." This landmark judicial decision, which cited an essay in this collection, made it ever more crucial to be clear about what the "historical tradition" entails. The scope of the Second Amendment's right to keep and ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • The Positive Second Amendment

    Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller

    de Joseph Blocher, Darrell A.H. Miller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    The Second Amendment is among the most recognized provisions of the Constitution. It is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Common misconceptions about the amendment - what it forbids, what it permits, how it functions as law - distort the gun debate and America's constitutional culture. In The Positive Second Amendment, Blocher and Miller provide the first comprehensive post-Heller account of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Free Speech Beyond Words

    The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment

    de Mark V. Tushnet, Alan K. Chen, Joseph Blocher ...
    A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsenseThe Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

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  • We the People

    A History of the U.S. Constitution

    de Jill Lepore ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryLonglisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction"[Lepore's] 15th book, <em... ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Slavery's Constitution

    From Revolution to Ratification

    de David Waldstreicher ...
    "A historian finds the seeds of an inevitable civil war embedded in the 'contradictions, ambiguities, and silences' about slavery in the Constitution." — Kirkus ReviewsTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the US Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Second Amendment

    A Biography

    de Michael Waldman ...
    The life story of the most controversial, volatile, and misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights and “a welcome re-injection of historical context into the present debate over the rightful role of guns in American culture” (Chicago Tribune).At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldman’s book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some surprising ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Constitutional Myths

    What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right

    de Ray Raphael ...
    "A timely exposé about the ways in which Americans . . . have frequently been misled by myths about the origins and history of the U.S. Constitution." —Richard R. Beeman, author of Plain Honest MenAmericans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R. B. Bernstein ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

    Series series Modern Library Founding Documents
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham introduces America's essential founding documents in an elegant, readable, and timeless volume.In the winter of 1860–1861, facing the prospect of secession and civil war, President Abraham Lincoln held fast to the founding promise of the now-imperiled United States of America. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution had forged the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Freedoms We Lost

    Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

    de Barbara Clark Smith ...
    A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian's curator of social history.The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in "freedom" as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

    de Professor Akhil Reed Amar ...
    Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Our Ancient Faith

    Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

    de Allen C. Guelzo ...
    **An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize*Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize**Finalist for the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize*"It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Well-Regulated Militia : The Founding Fathers And The Origins Of Gun Control In America

    de Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD