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  • The Ex Post Facto Clause

    Its History and Role in a Punitive Society

    de Wayne A. Logan ...
    Series series STUDIES CRIME AMD PUBLIC POLICY SERIES
    The first comprehensive examination of the US Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause, surveying its history and the critical role it can and should play in combatting the punitive tendencies of American legislatures. The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the US Constitution, reflects the Framers' acute concern over the tendency of legislatures to ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Knowledge as Power

    Criminal Registration and Community Notification Laws in America

    de Wayne A. Logan ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law
    Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Making Our Democracy Work

    A Judge's View

    de Stephen Breyer ...
    The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • America's Unwritten Constitution

    The Precedents and Principles We Live By

    de Akhil Reed Amar ...
    From a preeminent constitutional scholar, a “highly engaging and thought-provoking” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the unwritten rules that inform the American ConstitutionDespite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, principles and procedures that actually govern modern America. As esteemed legal scholar ... Leer más

    Antes $16.99 USD Ahora $1.99 USD

  • The American Supreme Court

    de Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Supreme Court Decisions

    Edición de Richard Beeman ...
    Series series Penguin Civic Classics
    A selection of the landmark Supreme Court decisions that have shaped American societyPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life, including the founding ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Worse Than Nothing

    The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

    de Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretationOriginalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices explicitly ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A History of the Supreme Court

    de the late Bernard Schwartz ...
    When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to run for Governor of New York; and Alexander Hamilton declined to replace Jay, pursuing a private law practice instead. As Bernard ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • Understanding the Constitution

    de David C. Gibbs III, Barbara Weller ...
    Little by little, the freedoms envisioned by our Founding Fathers and those who struggled for independence are being stripped away. The best guarantee that America's constitutional liberties will continue to be protected is to ensure that all citizens, and especially our children, clearly understand both what those freedoms are and who it is that gave them to us in the first place. This book ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dissent and the Supreme Court

    Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

    de Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    “Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." —The Los Angeles Review of BooksIn his major work*,* acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Corrupted by Power

    The Supreme Court and the Constitution

    de Robert E. Riggs ...
    Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the "least dangerous" branch of government. He was right then but wrong today. Since Hamilton's time the Supreme Court has become a cardinal example of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is not a corruption of bribes, or even of bad intentions, but of taking upon itself the right to alter the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Power of Precedent

    de Michael J. Gerhardt ...
    The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: To what extent are the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive branch constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? Taking up a topic long overdue for comprehensive ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD