Constitutional category: 1750 books
Landscapes of the Secular
Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
“What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?” asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It’s a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren’t seeing American landscapes through a non-religious lens, but rather...
Evolution of a Revolution
Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
This book presents a timely assessment of the impact of history, politics and economics in shaping the Singapore Constitution, going beyond the descriptive narrative, the authors will cast a critical eye over the developments of the last 40 years.
Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal
The Development of the Law in China's Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
In the years since it was established on 1 July 1997, Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal has developed a distinctive body of new law and doctrine with the help of eminent foreign common law judges. Under the leadership of Chief Justice Andrew Li, it has also remained independent under Chinese sovereignty...
The Supreme Court
An Essential History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most...
The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom
A Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2004
In this narrative history and contextual analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery and freedom take center stage. Alexander Tsesis demonstrates how entrenched slavery was in pre-Civil War America, how central it was to the political events that resulted in the Civil War, and how it was the driving...
Marbury v. Madison
The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best. William Marbury, a last-minute judicial appointee of outgoing Federalist president John Adams, demanded redress from the Supreme Court when his commission was not delivered. But Chief Justice John Marshall could clearly see the danger his...
Government at Work
Policymaking in the Twenty-First-Century Congress
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In this edited volume, an array of scholars has examined recent policymaking efforts in selected areas of contemporary importance. Government at Work: Policymaking in the Twenty-First Century Congress provides chapter-length treatment to reveal the similarities and fundamentals of policy development...
Challenges to the American Founding
Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West examine the fate of the founders' principles...
Public Inquiries
Wrong Route on Bloody Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled with allaying public concern over national disasters and social scandals. This book seeks to describe historically the use of public inquiries, and demonstrates why their methods continued to deploy until 1998 the ingrained habits of...
by Horace Edgar Flack
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This early academic work on the fourteenth amendment is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a study on the history of the fourteenth amendment and its appearance before congress. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in American political...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
For more than fifty years, The Supreme Court Review has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court’s most significant decisions. The Supreme Court Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront...
Lions under the Throne
Essays on the History of English Public Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges must be lions, but lions under the throne. From that day to this, the tension within the state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first systematic account of the origins and development...
Human Dignity and Law
Legal and Philosophical Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another. Law must be understood as limited by the demands made by human dignity. Conversely, human dignity cannot be properly understood without clarifying its interaction with legal institutions and legal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all...