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  • The Iowa State Constitution

    by Todd E. Pettys ...
    Series series Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States
    The Iowa State Constitution provides the most comprehensive analysis of Iowa's constitutional history and the development of its individual provisions. Todd E. Pettys presents a completely revised second edition with an extensive overview of Iowa's constitutional historical origin and evolution, while discussing cases of importance. Also included is a new bibliographic essay, table of cases, and a ... Read more

    $128.69 USD

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    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Law’s Abnegation

    From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to ... Read more

    $37.79 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

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America

    by WilliamJames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.In response to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Buying the Vote

    A History of Campaign Finance Reform

    by Robert E. Mutch ...
    Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters. The tenets that corporations do not ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Complete Bill of Rights

    The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins

    by Neil H. Cogan ...
    The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. Now in its second edition, The Complete Bill of Rights contains double the content featured in the first edition. This new ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism

    by Mark A. Graber ...
    A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism is the first text to study the entirety of American constitutionalism, not just the traces that appear in Supreme Court decisions. Mark A. Graber both explores and offers original answers to such central questions as: What is a Constitution,? What are fundamental constitutional purposes? How are constitutions interpreted? How is constitutional ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 4 - February 2012

    by Harvard Law Review ...
    Featured articles in this Feb. 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Amanda Tyler, on the core meaning of the Suspension Clause, and Kenneth Mack, reviewing Tomiko Brown-Nagin's recent book on the grass roots origins of the civil rights movement. Also, several scholars contribute to a tribute honoring Frank Michelman. Student contributions explore the law relating to international ... Read more

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  • Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth

    Peace, Order and Good Government

    by Hakeem O. Yusuf ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
    The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries. Since its introduction, the clause has played a significant role in colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism in Commonwealth jurisdictions.This book is the first full length analysis of the various dimensions of the peace, order and good government clause. It argues that the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Enforcement of EU Law and Values

    Ensuring Member States' Compliance

    Edited by Dimitry Kochenov, András Jakab ...
    It is clear that the current crisis of the EU is not confined to the Eurozone and the EMU, evidenced in its inability to ensure the compliance of Member States to follow the principles and values underlying the integration project in Europe (including the protection of democracy, the Rule of Law, and human rights). This defiance has affected the Union profoundly, and in a multi-faceted assessment ... Read more

    $131.39 USD