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  • Feminisms and Ruralities

    Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have ... Leer más

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  • Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

    de Sara Egge ...
    Series series Iowa and the Midwest Experience
    Winner of the 2019 Gita Chaudhuri PrizeWinner of the 2019 Benjamin F. Shambaugh AwardHistorian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities—in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways ... Leer más

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    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael BeschlossIn this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through ... Leer más

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  • Suffrage

    Women's Long Battle for the Vote

    Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this “indispensable” (Ellen Chesler, Ms. magazine) book explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. ... 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 American Supreme Court

    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Leer más

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  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

    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

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political conflict inevitable. It also has accommodated and legitimized the political and social changes of a ... Leer más

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  • Victory for the Vote

    The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed (Book About Womens Right to Vote, Suffragettes, Womens' Suffrage, and Readers of Why They Marched)

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  • Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

    The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not simply seized power and circumvented politics. The justices have had power thrust upon them--by politicians, for the ... Leer más

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  • The Conscience of the Constitution

    The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty

    The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence–that has led to the growth of government ... Leer más

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  • The Tempting of America

    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 ... Leer más

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