Constitutional category: 1750 books
by Robert L. Shibley
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This is the story of how Title IX, a 1972 law intended to ban sex discrimination in education, became a monster that both the federal government and many college administrators treat as though it supersedes both the U.S. Constitution and hundreds of years of common law. It's a story about the victims...
Feminist Judgments
Rewritten Tax Opinions
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Could a feminist perspective change the shape of tax laws? Feminist reasoning and analysis are recognized as having tremendous potential to affect employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and reproductive rights laws - but they can likewise transform tax law (as well as other statutory or code-based...
Negotiating the Deal
Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada. Since 1973, groups that have never signed treaties with the...
by Catherine J. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
American public schools censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Catherine Ross brings clarity to court rulings that define speech rights of young citizens and proposes ways to protect free expression, arguing that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
No matter who you identify with-Democrat or Republican, Tea Party or Green Party, Independent or something else altogether- we the people should read:
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments
The Declaration of Independence
The...
The Executive Unbound
After the Madisonian Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument...
The U.S. Constitution
Anti-Federalist Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification...
The United States Bill of Rights
The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Collectively known as the United States Bill of Rights, these first ten amendments to the United States Constitution limit the powers of the federal government and protect the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory. Introduced in 1789 in the First United States Congress...
HATE
Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" -- which has no generally accepted...
Must We Defend Nazis?
Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
A controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech
Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries...
A Theory of Deference in Administrative Law
Basis, Application and Scope
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
In the modern administrative state, hundreds if not thousands of officials wield powers that can be used to the benefit or detriment of individuals and corporations. When the exercise of these powers is challenged, a great deal can be at stake. Courts are confronted with difficult questions about...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Featured articles in this Feb. 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Amanda Tyler, on the core meaning of the Suspension Clause, and Kenneth Mack, reviewing Tomiko Brown-Nagin's recent book on the grass roots origins of the civil rights movement. Also, several scholars contribute to a tribute...
Shall Not Be Infringed
The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A comprehensive conservative history of the gun control debate in the United States— “An essential read for our times” (Ammoland Shooting Sports News).
David A. Keene and Thomas Mason examine the fight over the Second Amendment using polls, studies, and numbers. The pro-gun advocates...
Claim of Privilege
A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On October 6, 1948, a U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortress crashed soon after takeoff, killing three civilian engineers and six crew members. In June 1949, the engineers' widows filed suit against the government, determined to find out what exactly had happened to their husbands and why the three civilians...