The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century traces the development of the Supreme Court from Chief Justice Fuller (1888-1910) to the retirement of Chief Justice Burger (1969-1986).
Currie's masterful synthesis of legal analysis and narrative history, gives us a sophisticated and much-needed evaluation of the Supreme Court's first hundred years.
When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest.
The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation.
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaneyidealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South.
Les personnes de nationalité étrangère condamnées pour une infraction pénale peuvent être renvoyées du territoire suisse en vertu d'une décision de l'autorité compétente en matière migratoire ou d'une expulsion prononcée par le juge pénal.
En esta segunda edición del libro, se propone identificar algunas problemáticas del sistema de comercio internacional, o por lo menos aquellas que afectan a Colombia, y plantea algunas soluciones a partir de los principios sobre los cuales se erige este sistema, como el principio de no discriminación o principio de liberalización del comercio, sin olvidar, los principios que son el fundamento de las relaciones internacionales en el Estado social de derecho colombiano, como los principios reciprocidad, equidad y conveniencia nacional.