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  • Power from Powerlessness

    Tribal Governments, Institutional Niches, and American Federalism

    by Laura E. Evans ...
    As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles. The successes of some tribal casinos have lured many outside observers into thinking that gambling revenue alone can somehow mend the devastation of culture, community, natural resources, and sacred spaces. The reality is quite different. Most tribal officials operate with ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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  • America on Trial

    Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation

    by Alan M. Dershowitz ...
    The renowned attorney and bestselling author reveals how notable trials throughout our history have helped to shape our nation. Offering insights into the human condition, these trials serve as a historical document, chronicling the struggles and passions of their time. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $28.69 USD

  • Corporations and American Democracy

    by Steven A. Bank, Margaret M. Blair, Ruth H. Bloch, Daniel A. Crane, Jessica L. Hennessey, Eric Hilt, Jonathan Levy, Nelson Lichtenstein, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Elizabeth Pollman, John Joseph Wallis, Adam Winkler ...
    Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Ballot Battles

    The History of Disputed Elections in the United States

    by Edward Foley ...
    The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and more than a few elections produced manifestly unfair results. Despite America's claim to be the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Being Watched

    Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance

    by Jeffrey L. Vagle ...
    A riveting history of the Supreme Court decision that set the legal precedent for citizen challenges to government surveillanceThe tension between national security and civil rights is nowhere more evident than in the fight over government domestic surveillance. Governments must be able to collect information at some level, but surveillance has become increasingly controversial due to its more ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • American Politicians Confront the Court

    Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power

    by Stephen M. Engel ...
    Politicians have long questioned, or even been openly hostile to, the legitimacy of judicial authority, but that authority seems to have become more secure over time. What explains the recurrence of hostilities and yet the security of judicial power? Addressing this question anew, Stephen Engel points to the gradual acceptance of dissenting views of the Constitution, that is, the legitimacy and ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation

    A More Just Verdict

    by Holly J. McCammon ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    When women won the vote in the United States in 1920 they were still routinely barred from serving as jurors, but some began vigorous campaigns for a place in the jury box. This book tells the story of how women mobilized in fifteen states to change jury laws so that women could gain this additional right of citizenship. Some campaigns quickly succeeded; others took substantially longer. The book ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • This Is Not America

    by Alan Friedman ...
    What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream?Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump.In this searing ... Read more

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  • Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals)

    by Richard Garner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Common Sense Reflections of an American Redneck

    by Edward Thames ...
    Common Sense Reflections of an American Redneck is a collection of common sense articles, essays and observations accumulated over the last ten years about any and everything I wanted to write about. Friends have asked why I have identified myself as a redneck. They argued that it would do nothing to help the book sales. The dictionary defines the term redneck as an often disparaging Americanism: ... Read more

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