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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions -- some enlightened, many oppressive -- to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great,...
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Constitution is more than words on paper, it influences our lives every day, even the lives of kids! In We Have a Constitution readers will examine important ideas like compromise and law, learn about this documents history and discover its enduring relevance. Features include critical-thinking questions; a civics in action feature that encourages kids to put what theyve learned into practice; a civics checklist; glossary; and more."-- provided...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar tells the story of America's constitutional conversation during its first eighty years -- from the Constitution's birth in 1760 through the 1830s, when the last of America's early leaders died. Amar traces the threads of Constitutional discourse, uniting history and law in a narrative that seeks both to reveal this history anew and to make clear who was right and who was wrong on the biggest legal issues confronting...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the entire text of the U. S. Constitution, annotated with detailed explanations of its terms and contents. Each Amendment and Article is accompanied by sidebar material on the history of its application, including profiles of important Supreme Court cases, texts of related primary source documents, and contemporary news articles. Double-page timelines for several of the Articles and all the Amendments highlight important events...
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The Federalist Papers -- 85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press -- are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay -- were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution's protections...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By the time of his retirement in June 2010, the author had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book articulating not only the need for changes, but also what those improvements should be. This is a call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing ; a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In One vote away, you will discover how often the high court decisions that affect your life have been decided by just one vote. One vote preserves your right to speak freely, to bear arms, and to exercise your faith. One vote will determine whether your children enjoy their full inheritance as American citizens."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Written by political savant and entertainment veteran, Ben Sheehan, and vetted for accuracy by experts in the field of constitutional law, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? is an entertaining and accessible guide that explains what the Constitution actually lays out.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In a richly reported, behind-the-scenes portrait of the Supreme Court and the secret world of its nine justices, veteran national journalist David A. Kaplan shows how the Court, far from being the "least dangerous branch" of government, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, has become in many respects the most dangerous branch, subverting democracy and betraying the Constitution. Never before has the Supreme Court been more central to American politics....
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions. A Justice on the United States Supreme Court for three decades, Antonin Scalia transformed the way that judges, lawyers, and citizens think about the law. The Essential Scalia presents Justice Scalia on his own terms, allowing readers to understand the reasoning and insights that...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Constitutional law scholar and political science professor Corey Brettschneider guides us through the Constitution and explains the powers--and limits--that it places on the presidency. From the document itself and from American history's most famous court cases, we learn why certain powers were granted to the presidency, how the Bill of Rights limits those powers, and what "the people" can do to influence the nation's highest public office--including,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward.Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism--the nation's first ever--has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited authority to draft changes to our fundamental law,...
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