Constitutional category: 1750 books
Lives of the Law
Selected Essays and Speeches: 2000-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom. Lives of the Law collects Bingham's most important later writings, in which he brings his distinctive,...
by Matthew Lewans
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In recent years, the question whether judges should defer to administrative decisions has attracted considerable interest amongst public lawyers throughout the common law world. This book examines how the common law of judicial review has responded to the development of the administrative state in...
The Foundations of Australian Public Law
State, Power, Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
In The Foundations of Australian Public Law, Anthony J. Connolly brings together the two traditionally discrete areas of constitutional and administrative law to present Australian public law as a single, integrated body. Exploring the themes of state, power and accountability in Australia, the text...
by Robert Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The Law of American State Constitutions provides complete coverage of the legal doctrines surrounding, applying to, and arising from American state constitutions and their judicial interpretation. Using specific examples, Professor Williams provides legal analysis of the nature and function of state...
The Constitution of France
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
The centrepiece of this work is the French Constitution of 1958, portrayed by the author as an innovative hybrid construct whose arrival brought the constitutional stability that had eluded France for centuries. But the creation of the 1958 Constitution was not an isolated act; it represents part...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
This book is the first in a series examining how public law and international law intersect in five thematic areas of global significance: sanctions, global health, environment, movement of people and security. Until recently, international and public law have mainly overlapped in discussions on how...
Presidential War Power
Third Edition, Revised
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A classic and bestselling work by one of America's top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era.
In this third edition,...
Reclaiming Accountability
Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two...
Imperial from the Beginning
The Constitution of the Original Executive
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation’s chief executive at the Constitution’s founding. Among...
Defending the Filibuster, Revised and Updated Edition
The Soul of the Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Many argue that the Senate filibuster is undemocratic or even unconstitutional. Recent legislative disputes have brought criticism of Senate rules into sharp relief, and demands for abolition or reform of the filibuster have increased. In Defending the Filibuster, a veteran Senate aide and a former...
The Presidential Republic
Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
For two centuries, American presidents have considered themselves to be representatives of the American people. In this detailed study of presidential representation, Gary Gregg explores the theory, history, and consequences of presidents acting as representatives in the American political system....
Aggressive Nationalism
McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to be one of the most significant decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, many scholars have argued it is the greatest opinion handed down by the greatest Chief Justice, in which he declared the act creating the Second...
Practising Self-Government
A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional,...
It's Ok to Say "God"
Prelude to a Constitutional Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Our Founders would not recognize todays America. Christianity is under attack as never before. My career as a Baptist minister and as chaplain of the Texas House of Representatives has, in a sense, taken me to both sides of Jeffersons metaphorical wall of separation. Mr. Armstrong puts it a bit differently:...