Constitutional category: 1750 books

America's founding documents: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States including The Bill of Rights and the subsequent amendments (11-27). Over the years many amendments supersede certain parts of the original text as well as some older amendments. This book places the...

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political. But as the politics fade and the law's many complex provisions take effect, a much more interesting question begins to emerge:...

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for...

Debunking the lethal logic behind the pervasive myths that have framed the gun control debate The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to this bumper-sticker...

The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind...

Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music art and literature copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting political commentary historical scholarship and even artistic expression. In Copyright's Paradox...

This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms...

Does a federal court have an obligation to actually litigate and finally determine its jurisdiction to void, assign, and sell patents under California state laws when the issue of such jurisdiction is raised by a party? Can the inferior courts constitutionally decide a case against debtor without actually litigating and finally deciding issues presented to them by debtor for the first time?

Primeras constituciones nacionales y declaraciones de independencia. (Ley de 12 de noviembre de 1823.)

La Constitución de Chile de 1980 es el texto constitucional actualmente vigente en Chile. Fue aprobada en un plebiscito el 11 de septiembre de 1980. La Constitución Política de la República de Chile de 1980 estableció un sistema presidencialista de gobierno, creó un consejo de Seguridad Nacional,...

“At a time when policing in America is at a crossroads, Barry Friedman provides much-needed insight, analysis, and direction in his thoughtful new book. Unwarranted illuminates many of the often ignored issues surrounding how we police in America and highlights why reform is so urgently needed....

In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories...

The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws...