Constitutional category: 1750 books
A Sociology of Constitutions
Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical...
Reason of State
Law, Prerogative and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the Republicans, it moves through eighteenth-century arguments...
by Frank Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
A primary duty of U.S. citizenship is to be at least familiar with the basic fundamentals of our Constitutional form of government so that one can meaningfully participate in the rights and obligations of American citizenship. As stated by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, "Our democratic...
Constitutional Personae
Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
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 Constitution Today
Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"I don't think there is anyone in the academy these days capable of more patient and attentive reading of the constitutional text than Akhil Amar."--Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books
When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded...
by Conrado Hübner Mendes
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional...
by David Haljan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Constitutionalising Secession proceeds from the question, 'What, if anything, does the law have to say about a secession crisis?' But rather than approaching secession through the optic of political or nationalist institutional accommodation, this book focuses on the underpinnings to a constitutional...
The Schoolhouse Gate
Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming...
An Entrenched Legacy
How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
An Entrenched Legacy takes a fresh look at the role of the Supreme Court in our modern constitutional system. Although criticisms of judicial power today often attribute its rise to the activism of justices seeking to advance particular political ideologies, Patrick Garry argues instead that the Supreme...
Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments
A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution's Local and International Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The 1996 South African Constitution was promulgated on 18th December 1996 and came into effect on 4th February 1997. Its aspirational provisions promised to transform South Africa's economy and society along non-racial and egalitarian lines. Following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment, this...
The Scottish Independence Referendum
Constitutional and Political Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The September 2014 Scottish independence referendum was an event of profound constitutional and political significance, not only for Scotland, but for the UK as a whole. Although Scottish voters chose to remain in the UK, the experience of the referendum and the subsequent political reaction to the...
by Mark Ryan, Steve Foster
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Constitutional and administrative law (public law) is an essential element of all law degrees. Unlocking Constitutional and Administrative Law will ensure that you grasp the main concepts with ease, while giving you an indispensable foundation in the subject. This revised fourth edition is fully up...
Disqualifying the High Court
Supreme Court Recusal and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Since at least the time of Justinian—under statutes, codes of judicial ethics, and the common law—judges have been expected to recuse themselves from cases in which they might have a stake. The same holds true for the justices of the US Supreme Court. For instance, there were calls for Ruth Bader...
by John Agresto
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy John Agresto traces the development of American judicial power, paying close attention to what he views as the very real threat of judicial supremacy. Agresto examines the role of the judiciary in a democratic society and discusses the proper place...