1506 results for '"Constitution"'

"Americans of late have taken to waving the Constitution in the air and proclaiming, 'The founders were on MY side! See, it's all right here!' But these phantom constitutions bear little relation to...

The nation''s leading libertarian legal scholar tells the riveting story of the long struggle between two fundamentally opposing constitutional traditions and explains that beneath every passionate...

Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. In disputes about faith-based social services, public money for religious schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments monuments,...

By some definitions, most American prisons and jails are overcrowded; by any definition, many penal facilities are filthy and violence-ridden. Over the last twenty years, dozens of state and local...

In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many...

Who makes constitutional law? Is constitutional doctrine the monopoly of the courts? In accessible and persuasive prose Louis Fisher explains that constitutional law is not solely or even primarily...

W. G. Mcminn. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 200-206.

Authoritative coverage presents a framework to how constitutional liberty, as it relates to governmental power, is manifested in our system through the role played by the U.S. Supreme Court. Text...

From Library Journal This is certainly one of the most innovative, ambitious, and useful of the scholarly publications celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Its nearly 300...

Most of us regard the Constitution as the foundation of American democracy. How, then, are we to understand the restrictions that it imposes on legislatures and voters? Why, for example, does the...

How the Supreme Court’s move to the right has distorted both logic and the ConstitutionWhat Supreme Court justices do is far more than just “calling balls and strikes.” The Court has never simply...

After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary...