Constitutional category: 1750 books
by Howard Manuel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, grade: J.D. , Cleveland State University (Cleveland Marshall College of Law), language: English, abstract: Diversity and Equitable Funding focuses on the disparity of funding in America's education system....
Rutgers v. Waddington
Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case in the aftermath of violent revolutions, the matter made its way into the legal arena. Rutgers v. Waddington was such a case. Through this little-known but remarkable...
Party Government in 48 Democracies (1945–1998)
Composition — Duration — Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Since the 1980s, political scientists have developed a renewed interest in the study of political institutions, based on the assumption that "institutions matter" -that is, that formal governmental institutions and constitutional-legal rules (as well as informal institutions like parties...
by Edward J. Bloustein, Nathaniel J. Pallone
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In exploring a series of problems associated with privacy and the First Amendment, Bloustein defines individual and group privacy, distinguishing them from each other and related concepts. He also identifies the public interest in individual privacy as individual integrity or liberty, and that of...
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
by Robert C. Post
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the “marketplace of ideas” and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an...
Sovereignty and Liberty
A Study of the Foundations of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The essays in this volume set out to provide a rational framework for legislation. Whilst legislation and regulation is the result of a political process, this volume considers whether they can also be the object of theoretical study. It examines the problems that are common to most European legal...
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
How statutory enactments gut the Constitution. The Constitutional “shall have appellate jurisdiction” is replaced by the statutory “may be reviewed”
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
This Biographical Index contains the names of philosophers and authors whose opinions on law and government are in the 12 books of Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government published as a Philosophy Series in the Smashwords Edition
The Essential Debate on the Constitution
Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world today
When the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that...
Anonymous Speech
Literature, Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics discusses the different contexts in which people write anonymously or with the use of a pseudonym: novels and literary reviews, newspapers and political periodicals, graffiti, and now on the Internet. The book criticises the arguments made for a strong...
Role of the Solicitor-General
Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Behind every government there is an impressive team of hard-working lawyers. In Australia, the Solicitor-General leads that team. A former Attorney-General once said, 'The Solicitor-General is next to the High Court and God.' And yet the role of government lawyers in Australia, and specifically the...
The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
Practical Virtue in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action examines the events surrounding the development of the U.S. Constitution. Setting these events within the context of the colonial conflict with Britain and the experience with state constitutions under the Articles of...