This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that the right to bear arms was not about protecting liberty but about preserving slavery.
A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.
A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.
Since the adoption of the US constitution, there has been ongoing calibration of the power balance between the three branches of government, often in the face of rapidly changing social and political contexts.
Since the adoption of the US constitution, there has been ongoing calibration of the power balance between the three branches of government, often in the face of rapidly changing social and political contexts.
Nearly everyone accepts as gospel two assumptions: compliance with environmental rules is high, and enforcement is responsible for making compliance happen.
This book examines the various systems, processes, and agencies responsible for overseeing police conduct across Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, the United States, and Republic of Ireland.
Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political extremism suggests.
National security decisions pose a paradox: they are among the most consequential a government can make, but are generally the least transparent to the democratic public.
The book explores the evolution of the debate on the scope and meaning of the constitutional “pacifist principles” (or “pacifist clauses”) in Italy (article 11 of the Italian Constitution) and Japan (article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) generated by the war in Ukraine.
The book explores the evolution of the debate on the scope and meaning of the constitutional “pacifist principles” (or “pacifist clauses”) in Italy (article 11 of the Italian Constitution) and Japan (article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) generated by the war in Ukraine.
During the 1970s and 1980s the United States led the world in negotiating one of the most important treaties in history, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
During the 1970s and 1980s the United States led the world in negotiating one of the most important treaties in history, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
How can we teach health professionals, who are among the most privileged in American society, to best serve those who are the least privileged in American society?
An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.
A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
WINNER of 75th Nation al Jew ish Book Award: BiographyFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2026 FIVE STARS Magnificent Telegraph Compulsively readable Financial Times Gripping and timely The Times'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian JungerTHE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEERThe true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.
This book is a monograph devoted to one of the key challenges of modern transport - the safety strategy for telematics systems being used in the movement of people and cargo.
Wer verstehen will, wie sich das Bundesverfassungsgericht in den Debatten um muslimische Religionsfreiheit und gesellschaftliche Werte positioniert, findet hier eine fundierte Analyse und methodische Innovation.
El big data consiste en el procesamiento de grandes volumenes de informacion que puede provenir de multiples fuentes y estar en diversos formatos para generar analisis que pueden describir el estado de una organizacion en tiempo real, asi como detectar correlaciones que permitan predecir con cierto grado de certeza una situacion o tendencia incidiendo en la toma de decisiones mediante el procesamiento de informacion historica.
Die Politikwissenschaft steht vor der Aufgabe einer überzeugenden Antwort auf die mit der „Zeitenwende“ verbundene Sinnkrise in Politik und Gesellschaft.
Jetzt in Rente – mit optimalem FinanzplanDie Babyboomer-Generation steht vor dem Ruhestand – und vor vielen Fragen: Kann ich früher aufhören zu arbeiten?
Enhanced Cooperation Revisited offers a detailed and thought-provoking examination of one of the EU’s most discussed yet rarely applied tools for differentiated integration.
Das Anliegen dieses Beihefts besteht darin, das Verständnis für die Offenheit der Verfassungsordnungen in Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz sowie Liechtenstein für das Recht der Europäischen Union zu vertiefen.
This book is a monograph devoted to one of the key challenges of modern transport - the safety strategy for telematics systems being used in the movement of people and cargo.
Mit Blick auf die maßgebliche Regelung zur Unterbrechung der strafrechtlichen Hauptverhandlung, § 229 der Strafprozessordnung, lässt sich feststellen: Seit ihrer Einführung im Jahre 1877 wurde die Unterbrechungsmöglichkeit kontinuierlich ausgeweitet und der ursprüngliche gesetzgeberische Leitgedanke, das strafrechtliche Hauptverfahren konzentriert abzuhalten, trat immer weiter in den Hintergrund.
