Constitutional category: 1750 books
Dignity Rights
Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subjects...
The Politics and Law of Democratic Transition
Caretaker Government in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Peaceful legal and political ‘changing of the guards’ is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively new democracy, marred by long periods of military rule, Bangladesh has been encountering serious problems because of a prevailing culture of mistrust,...
Institutionalized Reason
The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This volume gathers leading figures from legal philosophy and constitutional theory to offer a critical examination of the work of Robert Alexy. The contributions explore the issues surrounding the complex relations between rights, law, and morality and reflect on Alexy's distinctive work on these...
First Amendment Studies in Arkansas
The Richard S. Arnold Prize Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This collection of fourteen essays written by young communication scholars at the University of Arkansas presents unique insights into how First Amendment issues have played out in the state. Rather than exploring the particular legal issues and the constitutional principles enunciated by the courts,...
The Constitution in Congress
Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation. This third volume in the series, the early...
A Well-Regulated Militia
The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest and arguably most daring democratic experiment. Apart from greater domestic focus on...
by Steven H. Shiffrin
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today. Explaining that the chosen rhetoric...
Religion and the Constitution, Volume 1
Free Exercise and Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship? Should pacifists be forced...
The Imperial Republic
A Structural History of American Constitutionalism from the Colonial Era to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. The Imperial Republic addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the concept of empire. Early activists frequently used the word to describe the nation they wished to create through revolution and later reform. The book examines...
Proportionality and the Rule of Law
Rights, Justification, Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence...
by A.V. Dicey
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The Law of the Constitution has been the main doctrinal influence upon English constitutional thought since the late-nineteenth century. It acquired and long retained extraordinary legal authority, despite fierce criticism and many changes in law and government. By many, it was treated as a canonical...
Lawless
The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein provides a lively, scholarly account of how the Obama administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law.
Lawless documents how President Barack Obama has presided over one constitutional debacle after another-Obamacare;...
Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution
Process, Politics and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The status of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty in the contemporary UK Constitution is much contested. Changes in the architecture of the UK Constitution, diminishing academic reverence for the doctrine, and a more expansive vision of the judicial role, all present challenges to the relevance,...