Constitutional category: 1750 books
Dressing Constitutionally
Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy from our Hairstyles to our Shoes
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This book examines how the intertwining of clothes and the United States Constitution raises fundamental questions of hierarchy, sexuality and democracy. Constitutional considerations both constrain and confirm daily choices. In turn, appearances provide multilayered perspectives on the Constitution...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted...
The Most Democratic Branch
How the Courts Serve America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought. But others argue that judges should stand alone as the ultimate guardians of American values, placing principle before the views of the people. In The Most Democratic Branch,...
Responding to Imperfection
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1995
An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of...
by Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
This book examines the "constitutional faith" that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "civil religion." By taking seriously the parallel between wholehearted acceptance of the Constitution and religious faith, Sanford Levinson opens up a host of intriguing questions about what it...
Cosmic Constitutional Theory
Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Accountability is regarded as a central feature of modern constitutionalism. At a general level, this prominence is perhaps unsurprising, given the long history of the idea. However, in many constitutional democracies, including the UK and the USA, it has acquired a particular resonance in contemporary...
by Amos N. Guiora
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
On September 11, 2001 terrorism instantly became the defining issue of our age. The resulting debates surrounding the inherent tension between national security interests and individual civil rights has focused national and international attention on how post-9/11 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Abu...
by Laurence H. Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
As everyone knows, the United States Constitution is a tangible, visible document. Many see it in fact as a sacred text, holding no meaning other than that which is clearly visible on the page. Yet as renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe shows, what is not written in the Constitution plays a key...
Freedom of Speech
Importing European and US Constitutional Models in Transitional Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book considers the issue of free speech in transitional democracies focusing on the socio-legal developments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. In showing how these Central and Eastern European countries have engaged with free speech models imported from the Council of Europe / EU and...
Desperately Seeking Certainty
The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Slavery, segregation, abortion, workers' rights, the power of the courts. These issues have been at the heart of the greatest constitutional controversies in American history. And in this concise and thought-provoking volume, some of today's most distinguished legal scholars and commentators explain...
by Moshe Cohen-Eliya, Iddo Porat
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Although the most important constitutional doctrine worldwide, a thorough cultural and historical examination of proportionality has not taken place until now. This comparison of proportionality with its counterpart in American constitutional law - balancing - shows how culture and history can create...
Untrodden Ground
How Presidents Interpret the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation’s best interest. His successors would follow his example, setting their own constitutional...