Constitution: government and the state

Is the Democratic Party the ';Party of Death'?

In this abridged edition for the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series American by Birth is now available in a format designed for students and general readers and includes a chronology outlining the key points in the case plus a bibliographical essay.

';An extraordinary theatrical event in which the personal and the political combine in a way that suggests a contemporary Chekhov.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman's path-breaking book, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law.

Rudolf Bahro: Vorlesungen 1994 – 1997 Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

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.

What is special about small states?

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was the first African-American Justice.

For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Congress's contempt power is the means by which Congress responds to certain acts that in its view obstruct the legislative process.

Shrouded in anonymity, protected by executive privilege, but with no legal or constitutional authority of their own, the 5,900 people in 125 offices collectively known as the "e;White House staff"e; assist the chief executive by shaping, focusing, and amplifying presidential policy.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.

Constitutional politics has become a major terrain of contemporary struggles.

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations.

This book examines the relationship among the US Supreme Court, Congress, and the public.

Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein considers the ways a particularly gifted federal judge seized the opportunities available to district judges to influence the results of the cases before him, and employed the tools available to him to make policy having a national impact.

The left and right in America are now divided by politically irreconcilable worldviews, and the root of that divide is authoritarianism.

Nach dem Tod des Diktators Franco 1975 und einer international beachteten Transition zur Demokratie wurde Spanien Mitglied der EU.

Concern about the integrity of American elections did not start with Trump's election; flaws in procedures have gradually grown during recent decades.

The actions or inactions of elected and appointed leaders determine whether the people they serve flourish or suffer.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

Although the U.

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

The View of the Courts from the Hill explores the current interactions and relationship between the U.

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups.

The 2016 election of Donald J.

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A new introduction to the European Union which uses the lens of comparative politics.

Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought.

Variously and roundly perceived as gridlocked, incompetent, irresponsible, and corrupt, American government commands less respect and trust today than perhaps at any time in the nation's history.

The story of the spectacular unravelling of journalism as a profession in Russia in the last thirty years.

This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the most frequently read work of Greek philosophy.

What is the nature of the modern state?

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations.

Organized crime, understood in a literal sense as systematic illegal activity for money or power, is as old as the first systems of law and government and as international as trade.

Aristotle's political imagination capitalizes on the virtues of a middle-class republic.