Constitutional category: 1750 books
The Genius of Impeachment
The Founders' Cure for Royalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A more-timely-than-ever argument that impeachment is an essential American institution from the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse.
This surprising and irreverent book by one of America’s leading political reporters makes the case that impeachment is much more than a legal and congressional...
by Bruce Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right will go in order to bring down their rivals, even under the scrutinizing eyes of the world.
The Soul of the First Amendment
Why Freedom of Speech Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A lively and controversial overview by the nation’s most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least...
The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
from The Oath
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Selection
The bestselling and prizewinning author of The Nine and American Heiress tells the dramatic and gripping insider’s story of the momentous ideological war fought between the Obama White House and the Supreme Court.
President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts...
American Epic
Reading the U.S. Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed...
by George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights draws upon two millennia of Western thought about the value and necessity of free inquiry. Acclaimed legal scholar George Anastaplo traces the philosophical development of the idea of free inquiry from Plato's Apology to Socrates to...
by Warren LeRoi Johns
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
History is marred with evidence of insecure human nature exploiting personal power to coerce, control, torture, enslave, imprison and even execute other human lives for self-centered power trips. Intolerance rears its ugly head tragically in matters of personal conscience and religious faith. Thousands...
Religion and the Law
of Church and State and the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
There are few issues as controversial as where to draw the line between church and state. The framers of the Constitution's Bill of Rights began their blueprint for freedom by drawing exactly such a line. Th e fi rst clauses of the First Amendment provide: "Congress shall make no law respecting...
Life's Dominion
An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of...
The Chrétien Legacy
Politics and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Contributors include Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Alberta), Caroline Andrew (Ottawa), Gerard W. Boychuk (Waterloo), Kathy Brock (Queen's), Stephen Clarkson (Toronto), David Docherty (Wilfrid Laurier), Alexandra Dobrowolsky (St Mary's), Christina Gabriel (Carleton), Ian Greene (York), Tom Keating (Alberta), Erick...
Tough Talk
How I Fought for Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright censorship, face powerful adversaries. But...
Friend of the Court
On the Front Lines with the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession. Floyd Abrams has been on the front lines of nearly every one of these major cases, which is also to say that, more than any...
Make No Law
The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech,...
The Tyranny of Tolerance
A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.
A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept...