Constitution: government and the state

Mining plays a crucial role in Brazil's economy.

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Conventional wisdom emerging from China and other autocracies claims that single-party legislatures and elections are mutually beneficial for citizens and autocrats.

With a new preface: An “irreverent [and] entertaining” portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma (The Christian Science Monitor).

This extensive revision of the landmark Leading Constitutional Decisions brings together recent Charter cases with the classical cases on the Canadian Constitution.

Explores reasons why a specific group of organized conservatives threaten its own leadership, and what could improve its likelihood of success.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

This Element examines the ways in which China and it''s people form an integral part of the global capitalist system.

The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts.

`England', Benjamin Disraeli famously said, `does not love coalitions'.

The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash.

How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life?

In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E.

The question whether and how boundaries might individuate and thereby be constitutive features of any imaginable legal order has yet to be addressed in a systematic and comprehensive manner by legal and political theory.

Explores the extent to which courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments.

The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth.

This book presents the most accurate picture of the United States Marine Corps at the onset of the American Civil War and describes the actions of the Marines at the Battle of First Manassas, or as the Union called it, Bull Run.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

This book goes beyond conventional tropes describing women in Saudi Arabia to probe the historical, political and religious forces thwarting their emancipation.

Reveals how the U.

2019 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in American history: McCulloch v.

Public law has been conceived in many different ways, sometimes overlapping, often conflicting.

Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution--the concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and achieve certain interests of the individual.

Describes the creation and evolution of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party''s history.

The first major scholarly defense of the centrality of the Framers'' intentions in constitutional interpretation to appear in years.

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.

In Russia, as in other new federations and those undergoing constitutional reform, wealthy and politically cohesive regions can substantially alter the rules of intergovernmental relations to their benefit within the context of bilateral bargaining.

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

The oneness of China is the norm.

The American Congress Reader is a supplement to the American Congress textbook.

In der Ordnung des Grundgesetzes wird die Frage danach, welche Behandlung die unterschiedlichen Konzeptionen des guten Lebens erfahren sollen, im Zuge weiterer Pluralisierung der Lebensvorstellungen an Bedeutung gewinnen.

The South was not always the South.

Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance.

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law''s varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Donald Trump's 2016 victory shocked the world, but his appeals to the economic discontent of the white working class should not be so surprising, as stagnant wages for the many have been matched with skyrocketing incomes for the few.

Law's Indigenous Ethics examines the revitalization of Indigenous peoples' relationship to their own laws and, in so doing, attempts to enrich Canadian constitutional law more generally.

LBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

Over the last two decades the development of the 'third sector' has been underpinned by principles of independence and autonomy,regulation and accountability and patronage through partnership.

The United States Constitution has already been interpreted to provide a variety of family-related protections which, if applied consistently, also protect same-sex couples and their children.