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Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle over Guns
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Few constitutional disputes maintain as powerful a grip on the public mind as the battle over the Second Amendment. The National Rifle Association and gun-control groups struggle unceasingly over a piece of the political landscape that no candidate for the presidency--and few for Congress--can afford...
by Jeremy B. Bierbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book provides a framework for comparing EU citizenship and US citizenship as standards of equality. If we wish to understand the legal development of the citizenship of the European Union and its relationship to the nationalities of the member states, it is helpful to examine the history of United...
Parliament
Legislation and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing...
by Ms Victoria Thirlaway
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
“Revising with this series is like having a tutor there...”
Mariette Jones, Middlesex University
Maximise your marks for every answer you write with Law Express Question and Answer. This series is designed to help you understand what examiners are looking for, focus on...
Common Law and Modern Society
Keeping Pace with Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Law is a lasting social institution, but it must also be open to change. How is law made, and what prompts change? How can society influence the law, and how does the law respond to societal change? The first volume of Shaping Tomorrow's Law examined human rights and European law. In this second volume...
Criminal Misconduct in Office
Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Should the criminal law be used to deter and punish corruption in politics: from employing family members at public expense to improper spending on elections, lobbying, and cronyism? How did so many MPs avoid facing charges after the 2009 government expenses scandal? In this book, Jeremy Horder tackles...
by Kent Greenawalt
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
This third volume about legal interpretation focuses on the interpretation of a constitution, most specifically that of the United States of America. In what may be unique, it combines a generalized account of various claims and possibilities with an examination of major domains of American constitutional...
Equal Citizenship, Civil Rights, and the Constitution
The Original Sense of the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution. Designed to be a central guarantor of civil rights and civil liberties following Reconstruction, this clause could have been at the...
This Realm of New Zealand
The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
New Zealand is a democratic constitutional monarchy, one of Queen Elizabeth II's sixteen realms. This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown interact with our democratically-elected leaders under New Zealand's unwritten constitution.The authors explain...
Reconstructing Reconstruction
The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of slavery? If the Thirteenth Amendment abolished it in 1865, why did most of the disputed points during the Reconstruction...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present danger." Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual...
by John W. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This text details critical information on all aspects of prison litigation, including information on trial and appeal, conditions of isolated confinement, access to the courts, parole, right to medical aid and liabilities of prison officials. Highlighted topics include application of the Americans...
Citizen Journalists
Newer Media, Republican Moments and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This monograph explores the phenomenon of ‘citizen journalism’ from a legal and constitutional perspective. It describes and evaluates emerging patterns of communication between a new and diverse set of speakers and their audiences. Drawing upon political theory, the book considers the extent to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This collection analyses the place and the functioning of interparliamentary cooperation in the EU composite constitutional order, taking into account both the European and the national dimensions. The chapters join the recent scholarship on the role of parliaments in the EU after the Treaty of Lisbon.The...