Constitutional category: 1750 books
More Essential than Ever
The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course,...
A Constitution of Many Minds
Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects...
by Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment?
Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory...
The Practical Guide to the United States Constitution
A historically accurate and entertaining owners' manual for the founding documents
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Practical Guide to the United States Constitution offers an accurate but entertaining look at the founding documents. It covers the how's, what's, and why's of the United States Constitution, but with a side of fun. The mission is simple: to make the Constitution so easy to understand that even...
Restoring the Lost Constitution
The Presumption of Liberty - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original...
by Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
“Diversity” has become a mantra within discussions of university admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of constitutional law and American government, wrestles with various notions of diversity. He begins...
by Sotirios A. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Barber shows how arguments for states’ rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government, when there are greater dangers to confront.
by John M. Kang
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s right of free speech, probably the most crucial right for democracy. One indeed finds among professors...
The Alchemists
Questioning our Faith in Courts as Democracy-Builders
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Can courts really build democracy in a state emerging from authoritarian rule? This book presents a searching critique of the contemporary global model of democracy-building for post-authoritarian states, arguing that it places excessive reliance on courts. Since 1945, both constitutional courts and...
Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place
Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?
Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: “We have a committed...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The vital words of Alexander Hamilton, including essays, private correspondence, and public statements
Alexander Hamilton is best known as the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury and the author of the majority of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays that outlined the basic...
by Martin Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
The British constitution is regarded as unique among the constitutions of the world. What are the main characteristics of Britain's peculiar constitutional arrangements? How has the British constitution altered in response to the changing nature of its state - from England, to Britain, to the United...
Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth
Peace, Order and Good Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries. Since its introduction, the clause has played a significant role in colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism in Commonwealth jurisdictions.
This book is the first full...
The Bill of Rights
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.
An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens.**
In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history...