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  • Beyond Checks and Balances

    The Political Purpose of the Separation of Powers

    de Jeffrey Edward Green, David Siemers, George Thomas, Jeffrey K. Tulis, Brigid Flaherty-Staab, Keith Whittington, Sotirios Barber, Kathleen Tipler, Mariah Zeisberg, Thomas Bell ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    An argument for understanding the separation of powers as a political arrangement designed to pursue the common democratic goodBeyond Checks and Balances seeks to rescue the democratic concept of the separation of powers from a popular caricature of it: that checks and balances exist between branches of government to frustrate, slow, and inhibit change. Long regarded as a legal doctrine that must ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

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  • James Madison's Constitution

    A Double Security and a Parchment Barrier

    de Jack N. Rakove, Lynn Uzzell, Alan R Gibson, Quentin P. Taylor, Michael P. Zuckert, David J. Siemers, Jeff Broadwater, Paul Finkelman, George Thomas, Zachary K. German ...
    In James Madison's Constitution, Eric T. Kasper and Howard Schweber have assembled a roster of ten prominent contributors to excavate Madison’s thinking about key concepts and issues over questions of what the Constitution requires, permits, and prohibits. Madison’s key role at the Constitution’s drafting was instrumental in forging the document into what it is today.In many areas, the modern ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Myth of Coequal Branches

    Restoring the Constitution’s Separation of Functions

    de David J. Siemers ...
    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    The idea that the three branches of U.S. government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how adherence to this myth normalizes a politics of gridlock, in which the action of any branch can be checked by the reaction ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • Presidents and Political Thought

    de David J. Siemers ...
    “What did the president know and when did he know it?” takes on a whole new meaning in Presidents and Political Thought. Though political philosophy is sometimes considered to be dry and abstract, many of our presidents have found usable ideas embedded within it. In this first comparative study of presidents and political theory, David Siemers examines how some of them have applied this ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • Ent-Täuschung

    Der Anfang vom Ende deiner Lebenslüge

    de David Siemering ...
    Der Anfang vom Ende Deiner Lebenslüge Wir alle leben mit ihnen - Täuschungen, die wir uns selbst erzählen. "Ich bin glücklich in meinem Job." "Meine Ehe erfüllt mich." "Irgendwann habe ich mehr Zeit für mich." Doch was, wenn diese Überzeugungen nur Fassaden sind? Was, wenn das, was wir für echt halten, in Wahrheit eine Lebenslüge ist, die uns langsam niederdrückt? In Ent-Täuschung - Der Anfang vom ... Leer más

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  • The Quartet

    Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

    de Joseph J. Ellis ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible—Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and James Madison.Ellis explains of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate ... Leer más

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  • America's Constitution

    A Biography

    de Akhil Reed Amar ...
    This “authoritative [and] important” (The New York Times Book Review) “biography” of America’s framing document explores topics ranging from presidential power and freedom of speech to birthright citizenship and beyond, explaining not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.“Elegantly written, thorough but concise, and consistently enlightening . . . an indispensable ... Leer más

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  • 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 Nation That Never Was

    Reconstructing America's Story

    de Kermit Roosevelt ...
    " P ersuasively argues that we must liberate ourselves from our sentimentalized attachment to the 'Founders' and even the Declaration of Independence" --Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic ConstitutionThere's a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the ... Leer más

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  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    de Jack N. Rakove ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • James Madison and the Making of America

    de Kevin R. C. Gutzman ...
    "A well-considered and -written biography of this gifted founding father's many contributions to the early republic." — Kirkus Reviews"Revels in the intrigue of political debate and the intricacies of the political process, fashioning a narrative the re-creates the drama of nation-making and governing." — The Wall Street JournalIn James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman ... Leer más

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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

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