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Washington's Government shows how George Washington's administration-the subject of remarkably little previous study-was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought.

A crucial warning for Americans about the lefts never-ending lust to steal individual liberties and the power of God to stop it.

Roderick A.

For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION"e;This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that's truly by and for the people.

This book investigates the role of executive scandals in the contemporary American political landscape.

The United States, often described as a nation of immigrants, has the most diverse population in the world.

Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war.

In Neoliberal Parliamentarism, Tom McDowell provides an alternative approach to understanding the decline of parliament at the Ontario legislature, an approach that highlights the politics of neoliberalism and the significant impact it has had over the last four decades.

Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy explores the relationship between minority, territory, and autonomy, and how it informs our understanding of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a strategy for accommodating ethno-cultural diversity in modern societies.

Presenting new theoretical perspective, this book shows how law and politics shape state high court use of Supreme Court precedent.

In 2009, Harvey A.

This guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function.

This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia''s experience under Putin.

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide.

Congressional ratings have fallen to single digits; citizens believe that Congress fails to do the things its members are publicly paid to do.

This book chronicles the presidency of George W.

Since the Second World War, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faced periods of extensive state repression, between 1948-1951 and 1954-1970 and again after 2013.

Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation.

The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world.

This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia''s experience under Putin.

This book investigates the role of executive scandals in the contemporary American political landscape.

Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact that new and draft constitutions and amendments - such as those in Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia - have had on the transformative processes that drive constitutionalism in Arab countries.

Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d.

When an economic collapse, natural disaster, epidemic outbreak, terrorist attack, or internal crisis puts a country in dire need, governments must rise to the occasion to protect their citizens, sometimes employing the full scope of their powers.

The book deals with the review and analysis of current corruption risks and related risks.

In recent years, the law relating to entry, search and seizure has undergone major change.

This edited volume aims to reveal the Janus-faced character of federalism in the European Union.

This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information.

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent-and limits-of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king.

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork.

This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian government.

In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political.

This book provides a detailed account of each law officer's functions and draws on that account as the basis for a conceptual analysis of their constitutional legitimacy.

In its six-decade history, the German Federal Constitutional Court has become one of the most powerful and influential constitutional tribunals in the world.

The right to self-determination is renowned for its lack of clear interpretation.

National Book Award Finalist: "e;A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman"e; (The New Yorker).

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

Using extensive interviews and previously unexplored archival material, Hayman examines the work of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women and assesses the opening of the first three prisons.

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government.

It is essential for anyone involved in law, politics, and government to comprehend the workings of the federal independent regulatory agencies of the United States.

In this book, Peter J.

The Economics of Lawmaking explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law.

A look inside the weaponization of social media, and an innovative proposal for protecting Western democracies from information warfare.