En este trabajo se han analizado las razones que abundan a que el Estado debe ser neutral políticamente y que son numerosas, ya que se estructura una sociedad política pluralista, cuyo reconocimiento como principio y valor constitucional tiene como consecuencia la garantía de la igualdad en el ejercicio de los derechos de libertad, incluidos los de carácter político, que deben posibilitar que no se perjudique la competencia política, proteger los derechos de los participantes en la misma, garantizar la libertad en el proceso de formación de la voluntad política y de la opinión pública, asegurar la protección de los intereses generales e impedir la utilización de los recursos públicos por la autoridad pública para fines partidistas.
Constitución, democracia y derechos es una compilación de algunos de los mejores artículos de derecho constitucional de Juan Fernando Jaramillo, socio fundador de Dejusticia, fallecido tempranamente hace cuatro años.
In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, has been turned into an unenumerated rights clause that effectively grants unlimited power to the judiciary.
Inaugurating Greenw4ood's Reference Guides to the United States Constitution series, this superlative guide to the Sixth Amendment is the first to survey the legal guarantee of counsel's assistance since 1963's Gideon ruling.
Founded in 1900, the National Civic Federation (NCF), a broad-based, nongovernmental social and policy reform organization, emerged throughout the Progressive Era as one of the nation's most powerful policy research and lobbying groups.
The third of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Debates over the separation or accommodation of religion and government have divided Americans since the founding of our country and continue to echo in governmental chambers today, as people argue sharply and heatedly about the exact meaning and correct applications of First Amendment clauses on religious establishment and free exercise of religion.
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star returns to the page to reveal the radically dangerous Democrat agenda that is upending American life.
How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices' partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law.
Pay-to-Play Politics examines money and politics from different angles to understand a central paradox of American democracy: why, when the public and politicians decry money as the worst aspect of American politics, are there so few signs of change?
A comprehensive and focused review of all of the Supreme Court's overturns of Congress on constitutional grounds from 1789 to the present suited to college-level political science and constitutional law courses as well as law school students.
A prominent lawyer and legal scholar describes her vision of an evolving Constitution, examining current legal issues that range from health care to gun control.
The Antifederalists come alive in this state-by-state analysis of politics during the Confederation and the debates over the enlargement of Congressional powers prior to the formation of the Constitution.
El Estado tiene la obligación de hacer realidad los derechos sociales (a la vivienda, a la educación, a la salud, a la alimentación, a la protección social) que consagra la Constitución.