Constitution: government and the state

This tour of the American church/state issue revisits past controversies and personalities in the hope of enlightening present-day debates.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of March, grouped according to topics.

State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals.

This edited volume marks a further step toward responding to the challenge of providing a moderately broad but sensibly detailed and advanced treatment of human rights and foreign policy in comparative perception and the trend of democracy and the rule of law in the United States under Trumpism.

Offering a unique resource for students, scholars, and citizens, this work fully explains all of the 21 enumerated powers of the U.

The author and dean of constitutional law offers framework for understanding the US Constitution and the current threats facing democracy.

Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism?

A clearly written and accessible explanation of the Supreme Court''s same-sex marriage decision, its reasoning, and the consequences and controversies surrounding it.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the European Union''s many crisis management capacities and explains their origins.

A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects of Turkey under Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the idea of the ''desired'' citizen.

Through the study of Nepal, shows a successful alternative to dominant energy infrastructure development paradigms typically imposed on developing countries.

This book argues that for a nation to become fully democratic, it must strengthen the interactions between its soldiers, politicians, and civilians.

In March 1964 the Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans (19252004) encountered Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswalds mother, at JFK International Airport.

For the first time an index of all the constitutions of the Americas, including federal and member states, from the period 1850 to the present, is now available.

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is an important actor in the American gun debate.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of December, grouped according to topics.

Demonstrates how party elites influence candidate decisions and shape the outcomes of primary elections for House and Senate.

The essential verdict on Britain''s first coalition government since the Second World War delivered by an unrivalled team of experts.

In the final two decades of British rule in Ireland the Roman Catholic Church saw its pre-eminent role in the control of schooling threatened by the secularist and democratic reforms of the imperial administration.

A collection of Ronald Reagan's private thoughts, jokes, and favorite quotations from the #1 New York Times-bestselling editor of The Reagan Diaries.

In writing the constitution, the Founders combined a Lockean theory of politically legitimate power with the political science they had learned from Machiavelli, Harrington, Hume, and Montesquieu to articulate a new conception of constitutional argument.

Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.

New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party.

This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century.

The last two decades have witnessed an exponential growth in debates on the use of foreign law by courts.

This book explores some of the most glaring misunderstandings about the U.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the rules of organised political activity in Britain and the standards of conduct expected of those involved in it.

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.

In his latest eye-opening exploration, political maverick Ralph Nader dissects the astonishing twists and turns of the 2020 presidential election, a race that left the nation on the edge of its seat.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence, and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of September, grouped according to topics.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of December, grouped according to topics.

This book is the first to examine what influences Congress across the hundreds of issues it deals with, and produces some surprising conclusions.

This book provides an account and explanation of a fundamental dilemma facing secular states: the 'legitimacy gap' left by the withdrawal of religion as a source of legitimacy.

This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) and is focused on the following topics: Health Care; International Affairs; National Defense.

While exercising its power to review the constitutionality of governmental action, the Supreme Court has relied on certain "e;methods"e; or "e;modes"e; of interpretation - that is, ways of figuring out a particular meaning of provision within the Constitution.

This book analyzes the threats to the property rights of business owners and investigates what makes these rights secure.

Public investment, and particularly infrastructure investment, is important for sustainable economic growth and development as well as public service provision.

John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election.

Die Münchner Dissertation untersucht auf der Grundlage der frühen theologischen und staatskirchenrechtlichen Schriften Hugo Grotius’ dessen theologische Positionierung und Argumentationsstrategien im Arminianischen Streit und den politischen Auseinandersetzungen Anfang des 17.