Constitutional category: 1750 books
Kafka Comes to America
Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award — Winner in the Book category
Independent Publishers — Winner of the Gold Medal in the Autobiography/Memoir category
ForeWord Book of the Year Awards — Winner of the Bronze Medal in the Social Science category
The Eric Hoffer Award - Winner in the...
Speaking Freely
Whitney v. California and American Speech Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Anita Whitney was a child of wealth and privilege who became a vocal leftist early in the twentieth century, supporting radical labor groups such as the Wobblies and helping to organize the Communist Labor Party. In 1919 she was arrested and charged with violating California's recently passed laws...
Trumping Religion
The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in litigating cases regarding religion.
Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
How is the distribution of power between the different levels of the contemporary constitution to be policed? What is the emerging contribution of the courts in regard to EC law,the Human Rights Act 1998 and devolution? What roles should be played by the legislative and judicial bodies at each level?...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This collection of essays engages with a central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship – the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others – and seeks to expand its horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration....
by Bruce Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes
His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A reprint of the Little, Brown edition of 1943. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Reason and History in Judicial Judgment
Felix Frankfurter and Due Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Stevens sees three crises in American judicial statesmanship. The first was the crisis of the founding. The well being of the country was subjected to grave danger, culminating in the crisis of the Civil War, and a refoundation was required. During the mid twentieth century, the United States faced...
Ellery's Protest
How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
“Solomon’s fascinating and sweeping history of the legal fight over mandatory school prayers is compelling, judicious, and elegantly written. Fabulous!”
—David Rudenstine, Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
“Stephen Solomon’s Ellery’s Protest provides...
Confronting the Human Rights Act 1998
Contemporary themes and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book critically examines the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and evaluates its impact from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book includes both a domestic and international analysis of the effectiveness of the HRA, and also considers possible future developments in policy and practise as well...
By Their Creator
How a Belief in a Creator Shapes the American Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2000
Why did the Plymouth colonists succeed and the Jamestown colonists fail in those important early years of settlement? How did the Framers of the Constitution deal with slavery? What was the principle force behind those feelings? What drove the debate against slavery in antebellum America? To what...
by Chantal Stebbings
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Nineteenth-century governments faced considerable challenges from the rapid, novel and profound changes in social and economic conditions resulting from the industrial revolution. In the context of an increasingly sophisticated and complex government, from the 1830s the specialist and largely lay...
My Daily Constitution Vol. I
A Natural Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2001
Subtitled: A NATURAL LAW PERSPECTIVE, 365 essays, each 365 words, on Uncle Sams birthright, genealogy, and orientation, OR the Constitutions philosophical and historical presuppositions and implications, OR Philosophy for Dummies. Many modern historians and thinkers describe western history as a progressive...
American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family
Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...