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  • American Political Rhetoric

    Essential Speeches and Writings on Founding Principles and Contemporary Controversies

    Edited by Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer, David Ramsey ...
    American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through examples of political rhetoric ranging from the founding to today. Now in its eighth edition, its selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from our nation's founders to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Century of Controversy

    Constitutional Reform in Alabama

    by Wayne Flynt, G. Alan Tarr, Howard P. Walthall, James W. Williams, Jr., William H. Stewart III, H. Bailey Thomson III, Bradley Moody III, Anne Permaloff III, Robert Martin Schaefer III, Joe A Sumners III, Samuel L. Webb III, Harvey H. Jackson III ...
    A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitutionAlabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most, of the state’s historic difficulties and inequities. Chief among these is a poorly funded school system, an imbalanced tax system that favors special business interests, legislated racism, and unchecked urban sprawl. Many ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge, points out, almost every one of the Justices fits into a very small number of types regardless of ideology: the hero, the soldier, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition

    by E. Allan Farnsworth ...
    In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Constitutional Fate

    Theory of the Constitution

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Classical Liberal Constitution

    The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Power of Precedent

    by Michael J. Gerhardt ...
    The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: To what extent are the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive branch constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? Taking up a topic long overdue for comprehensive ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Lawyers Who Made America

    From Jamestown to the White House

    by Anthony Arlidge ...
    No other nation's creation, both politically and socially, owes such a debt to lawyers as the United States of America. This book traces the story of that creation through the human lives of those who played important parts in it: amongst others, of English lawyers who established the form of the original colonies; of the Founding Fathers, who declared independence and created a Constitution; of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Forgotten Presidents

    Their Untold Constitutional Legacy

    by Michael J. Gerhardt ...
    Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity: Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents, writes Michael J. Gerhardt, were not weak or ineffective. They boldly fought battles over constitutional principles that resonate today. Gerhardt ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

    Text and Tradition

    by Ralph A. Rossum ...
    Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is widely regarded as the most controversial member of the Court.This book is the first comprehensive, reasoned, and sympathetic analysis of how Scalia has decided cases during his entire twenty-year Supreme Court tenure. Ralph ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Murder in Mississippi

    United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Howard Ball ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment

    Guarantees of States' Rights?

    by Ellis M. West ...
    The First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ." The Supreme Court has consistently held that these words, usually called the "religion clauses," were meant to prohibit laws that violate religious freedom or equality. In recent years, however, a growing number of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD