1535 results for '"Constitution"'

The origins of the U.S. Constitution are the source of endless debate. What did the founders intend when they drafted this monumental work? How should we interpret their formulations in the...

In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early...

Essays discuss how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution, including the Fourteenth Amendment, the right to privacy, and incorporation

From one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation Fights over history are at the heart of most important...

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that...

In simple direct language, Jerry Fresia reveals the true intent of our "Founding Fathers" who designed the Constitution to protect their property and ensure that the poorer majority would have no...

Illuminates 250 years of constitutional history by discussing the relations between the Prime Minister, the Crown, the Cabinet and both Houses of Parliament.

No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the...

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation "Chemerinsky . . . offers a concise, point-by-point refutation of the theory [of...

Essays, speeches, and letters on constitution ratification, pardoning powers, the Bank of the U.S., and foreign policy illuminate not only Hamilton’s legacy but his compelling engagement with...

A history of the origins and ratification of the first ten amendments to the American Constitution combines an analysis of English antecedents with an argument that, in concept and form, they are...

""Emancipation War" chronicles the great military, political, and legal struggle that amended the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery once and for all"-- Provided by publisher.

From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.

Addressing the proper relation of moral and religious belief to politics and law, especially constitutional law, Perry here discusses whether a common moral foundation exists that is capable of...

The words of the U.S. Constitution limit the possibilities of political action: they bind us in certain ways. How they bind us, however, depends upon how these words are interpreted and upon the...

The two themes of this book are the political and constitutional effects of rapid inflation and the difficulties caused by the universal desire to achieve and enforce religious unity in a...

Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a “legitimate” proxy for...

Brings to life the hard-fought battle over the creation and ratification of the Constitution.There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted...

From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies, this book traces the path of crucial constitutional test cases during the years from 1933 to 1937.

Enthält: Die Grundlagenkrisis der griechischen Mathematik / Helmut Hasse and Heinrich Scholz. Sur la constitution des livres ... ; Sur les connaissances ... / Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen.