Constitutional category: 1750 books
Religious Freedom in America
Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—these are matters for heated...
by David J. Bodenhamer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political...
A War Like No Other
The Constitution in a Time of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
“A scholarly and cautionary collection of essays focusing on what [Fiss] views as the post-9/11 debasements of key provisions of the Constitution” (Kirkus Reviews).
A leading legal scholar for more than thirty years, Owen Fiss’s focus was civil procedure and equal protection. But when...
by Erwin Chemerinsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right, the result of a determined effort by right-wing lawmakers and presidents to reinterpret the Constitution by reshaping the judiciary. Conservative activist justices have narrowed...
by Brian C. Kalt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controversies, such as the criminal prosecution of a sitting...
Dissent and the Supreme Court
Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
From the admired judicial authority, author of Louis D. Brandeis (“Remarkable”—Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books; “Monumental”—Alan M. Dershowitz, The New York Times Book Review), Division and Discord, and Supreme Decisions—Melvin Urofsky’s major new book looks at the role...
How Constitutions Change
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
This set of essays explores how constitutions change and are changed in a number of countries, and how the 'constitution' of the EU changes and is changed. For a range of reasons, including internal and external pressures, the constitutional arrangements in many countries are changing. Constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices concerning executive power, constitutional amendment...
Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law
Constitutions in an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power. It challenges the idea that many constitutional orders are facing permanent states...
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
**In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017**
For most of Western history, Sitaraman...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future...
Constitutions
Writing Nations, Reading Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution.
Can a nation...
by William H. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.S. Constitution and thus invalid. Since entering the Union...
Rethinking the New Deal Court
The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1998
Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process...