Constitutional category: 1750 books
Mrs. Dred Scott
A Life on Slavery's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and...
by John W. Compton
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism.
Against Obligation
The Multiple Sources of Authority in a Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Greene argues that citizens are not morally obligated to obey the law and that officials need not follow prior or higher authority when reading the Constitution. The sources of authority in a liberal democracy are multiple—the law must compete with other norms. Constitutional meaning is not locked in, historically or by the Supreme Court.
Social Feminism, Labor Politics, and the Law
Women, the Law, and the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Equal rights for women in the workplace is a critical aspect of the twentieth century civil rights movement, as well as an issue of academic and public interest. Bringing together legal rulings and commentary, this three-volume collection documents the development of legal protections for women in...
Politics and Capital
Auctioning the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
This book is about good government-especially ethical and fair government. Using both theoretical methods and practical political analysis, John Attanasio shows how recent Supreme Court decisions and campaign finance regulations map onto a pernicious and growing inequality in America. He puts forward...
The Health Care Case
The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The Supreme Court's decision in the Health Care Case, NFIB v. Sebelius, gripped the nation's attention during the spring of 2012. Like the legislative battle leading to adoption of "Obamacare", the litigation took many unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a surprising, fractured and confusing...
Just Words
Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The Canadian Charter of Rights is composed of words that describe the foundations of a just society: equality, freedom, and democracy. These words of justice have inspired struggles for civil rights, self-determination, trade unionism, the right to vote, and social welfare. Why is it, then, that fifteen...
Diminishing the Bill of Rights
Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore’s rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at...
by Carol S. Steiker
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the U.S. has attempted to reform and rationalize capital punishment through federal constitutional law. While execution chambers remain active in several states, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue that the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment.
The Public Law of Gender
From the Local to the Global
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
With the worldwide sweep of gender-neutral, gender-equal or gender-sensitive public laws in international treaties, national constitutions and statutes, it is timely to document the raft of legal reform and to critically analyse its effectiveness. In demarcating the academic study of the public law...
Self-Determination & Constitution Making in Nepal
Constituent Assembly, Inclusion, & Ethnic Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book systematically analyzes why constitutions do not survive in Nepal, despite sixty years of constitutional history. The author discusses the epistemology of ethnic federalism in Nepal and examines the challenges of nation building and post-nation constitutionalism. The work addresses the connection...
Sword and Scales
An Examination of the Relationship between Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
This short and accessible book provides a provocative re-assessment of the various tangled relationships between law and politics and in so doing examines legal and political thinking on such critical areas as justice,the state, constitutionalism and rights. It introduces lawyers especially to certain...
Entick v Carrington
250 Years of the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to John Entick's house in Stepney. They broke into...
Freedom and Political Order
Traditional American Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Freedom and Political Order explores the traditional meaning of freedom in the American experience and its relation to other characteristically American values and institutions. Such an exploration necessarily touches upon relevant historical experience, but it extends beyond a history of freedom...