Constitutional category: 1750 books
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 1
The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion...
The Second Amendment Primer
A Citizen's Guidebook to the History, Sources, and Authorities for the Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
So much of the debate about the Second Amendment is in scholarly journals and academic papers written by scholars and judges, or directed towards other scholars, law professors, attorneys, and judges. Trying to wade through the extensive footnotes and references to legal cases and historical precedents...
A Nation Under God?
The ACLU and Religion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
A Nation Under God? raises the question of why the ACLU relentlessly attacks public expressions of mainstream religious faith. The answer, according to the book's argument, is that the work of the ACLU is informed by a larger political project-modern liberalism-to transform American government and...
by Wolfgang Tiede
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, , course: EU-Project 'Support to the implementation of the law on general principles of organisation of local self-government in the Russian Federation', language: English, abstract: The German system...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free
Stories of Free Expression in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "We must not be afraid to be free." Black saw the First Amendment...
First Among Equals
The Supreme Court in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Today's United States Supreme Court consists of nine intriguingly varied justices and one overwhelming contradiction: Compared to its revolutionary predecessor, the Rehnquist Court appears deceptively passive, yet it stands as dramatically ready to defy convention as the Warren Court of the 1950s...
Engines of Liberty
The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook on standing up for fundamental civil liberties and resisting executive overreach -- named one of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year
What role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and...
Terms of Engagement
How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America’s judges have largely abdicated that responsibility....
Essential Supreme Court Decisions
Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare,...
Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence
Text and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalia’s entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v. Heller, his dissent in the Obamacare cases of NFIB v. Sebelius and King v. Burwell, his important recess appointments...
American Justice 2014
Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In this provocative and insightful book, constitutional scholar and journalist Garrett Epps reviews the key decisions of the 2013-2014 Supreme Court term through the words of the nation's nine most powerful legal authorities. Epps succinctly outlines one opinion or dissent from each of the justices...
Proportionality Principles in American Law
Controlling Excessive Government Actions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to utilitarian and retributive theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rule of law and an essential check on government power. These concepts all embody the fundamental value that government and private...
Equality under the Constitution
Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights....