Constitutional category: 1750 books
Democratic Decline in Hungary
Law and Society in an Illiberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book shows the rise and morphology of a self-identified `illiberal democracy’, the first 21st century illiberal political regime arising in the European Union. Since 2010, Viktor Orbán’s governments in Hungary have convincingly offered an anti-modernist and anti-cosmopolitan/anti-European...
Access to Justice
Beyond the Policies and Politics of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Building on a series of ESRC funded seminars, this edited collection of expert papers by academics and practitioners is concerned with access to civil and administrative justice in constitutional democracies, where, for the past decade governments have reassessed their priorities for funding legal...
The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment
Guarantees of States' Rights?
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ." The Supreme Court has consistently held that these words, usually called the "religion clauses," were meant...
The Complete Bill of Rights
The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. Now in its second edition,...
by John Boston, Daniel E Manville
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners...
by James Bowers Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
America is the most incarcerated country in the world. With only 5% of the global population, America has close to 25% of the prison population. Why is the supposedly “land of the free” now the land of the imprisoned? There are four key reasons: Americans are ignorant, apathetic and fearful...
by Daniel J. Baum
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This book explains our right to freedom of expression, its limits, and how Canadian courts draw the line.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental right protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is part of the Constitution of Canada and, as such, the highest law of the land. But...
Summary of A More Perfect Union
by Ben Carson, MD & Candy Carson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of A More Perfect Union by Ben Carson, MD & Candy Carson | Includes Analysis Preview: A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Protect Our Constitutional Liberties is a book by Ben Carson, MD, and his wife, Candy Carson. This book explores the intricacies...
Offend, Shock, or Disturb
Free Speech under the Indian Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Offend, Shock, or Disturb is a comprehensive examination of free speech under the Indian Constitution. It explores Indian free speech jurisprudence from a doctrinal, comparative, and philosophical perspective. Taking as its point of departure the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech...
Animus
A Short Introduction to Bias in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An introduction to the legal concept of unconstitutional bias.
If a town council denies a zoning permit for a group home for intellectually disabled persons because residents don’t want “those kinds of people” in the neighborhood, the town’s decision is motivated by the public’s dislike...
Cross Purposes
Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
"A definitive study of an extremely important, though curiously neglected, Supreme Court decision, Pierce v. Society of Sisters."
---Robert O'Neil, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Law
"A careful and captivating examination of a dramatic and instructive...
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty
Emerging Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage....
by Jesse H. Choper
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Although the Constitution of the U.S. states that there shall be no laws that either establish or prohibit religion, the application of the Religion Clauses throughout history has been fraught with conflict and ambiguity. In this classic book, a leading constitutional scholar (and former Dean of Berkeley...
by John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Originalism holds that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at the time it was enacted. In their innovative defense of originalism, John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport maintain that the text of the Constitution should be adhered to by the Supreme Court because it was...