Constitution

When a B-29 bomber exploded over Georgia in 1948, the victims families were denied access to crucial information relating to the accident because the federal government claimed such access would endanger national security.

An essential primer on impeachment for today's divided public squareWe are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common.

Americas founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny.

Rights of Inclusion provides an innovative, accessible perspective on how civil rights legislation affects the lives of ordinary Americans.

Why colleges and universities live or die by free speechFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate.

Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world.

Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn two canonical decisions of the 1920sMeyer v.

Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discriminationbut ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Courts landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values.

The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in redefining religious freedom in the courtroom.

What does it mean to have a constitution?

Redundancy and the Law explains the Redundancy Payments Act by stating different cases that have been associated with this particular law.

Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable.

For most Americans, habeas corpus is the cornerstone of our legal system: the principal constitutional check on arbitrary government power, allowing an arrested person to challenge the legality of his detention.

Colorado's legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes.

Drafting the Irish Free State Constitution challenges the myths surrounding the Irish Free Constitution by analysing the document in its proper historical context, by looking at how the Constitution was drafted and elucidating the true nature of the document.

Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration has come under fire for its methods of combating terrorism.

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.

For more than two centuries, the U.

From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate.

A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making.

Telling lies, and falling for them, is one of the things that makes us human.

Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity.

Winner: Thomas M.

Religious liberty is often called "e;the first freedom.

What would an Anti-Federalist Constitution look like?

Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war?

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, FinalistWhile car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Thompson, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over the guardianship of Kowalski.

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalias entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v.

For over seventy-five years Edward S.

A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believeThe Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor.

Winner: Bancroft PrizeWinner: Henry Adams PrizeWinner: Ohio History Association Book PrizeIn time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution.

A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

As Americans, we cherish the freedom to associate.

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.

For some, he was Americas leading smut king, hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail.

I am nothing, but I may be everything, John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office.

The first paperback edition of a classic of American constitutional theory.

In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

Honorable Mention: David J.

Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "e;new originalist"e; interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting.

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases.

The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneous information.

Constitutional scholars Christopher P.

An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.

Brown v.

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleLetters of marque might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution.