Constitution: government and the state

Thomas Curry argues that discussion and interpretation of the First Amendment have reached a point of deep crisis.

A study that maps India''s political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular.

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.

Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies.

The Virginia State Constitution examines constitutional amendments, court decisions, attorney general opinions, and legislative deliberations bearing on the development and interpretation of the Virginia Constitution.

'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.

Although the friendship between George Washington and James Madison was eclipsed in the early 1790s by the alliances of Madison with Jefferson and Washington with Hamilton, their collaboration remains central to the constitutional revolution that launched the American experiment in republican government.

Wie verhält sich das Strafrecht zu Normen und Verhaltensregeln in sozialen Netzwerken?

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This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenges of social difference across Pan-Asia.

In the period from 1970 to the early 1990s, Republican leaders launched three major reforms of the federal system.

This 1989 Yoshino Sakuzo prize-winning book is essential reading for understanding Japans postwar constitution, political and social history, and foreign policy.

Social scientists have played many roles in Canadian politics since the Second World War.

In recent years, some have asked "e;Are we all originalists now?

This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama's foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments.

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 agriculture and the environment.

Provides the first natural law justification for an originalist interpretation of the American Constitution.

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.

Indonesia has a growing population of almost 300 million people, it is increasingly involved in world affairs, and has a booming economy.

This set of fifteen volumes under the title International Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions, Commentaries and Laws provides readers with a complete guide to the commentaries on individual constitutions and respective constitutional amendments of all major nations of the world, their constitutions, and the constitutional laws.

How has Barack Obama done in his first term as a "e;progressive president,"e; especially in relation to his campaign assertions?

Since the 1930s the state has played a primary role in the development process of Latin American countries, and political systems have had strong corporatist and authoritarian-centralist features.

This is the "e;everything"e; women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women.

21 Defining Political Speeches From Presidents and Political Figures That United America in Uncertain TimesThe Missing Centeris a message from the younger generation, and reminds us that shared aspirations and goals have solved Americas greatest challenges and are at the heart of our greatest accomplishments to come.

In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century.

This history of the 1787 Constitutional Convention uses a chronological narrative format to capture the complexity, messiness, and unfolding daily drama behind the writing of the U.

Justin Buckley Dyer provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels between slavery and abortion in American constitutional development.

Engel examines changing politicians'' perceptions of the threat posed by opposition and how it influenced manipulations of judicial authority.

Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this two-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians.

This set of fifteen volumes under the title International Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions, Commentaries and Laws provides readers with a complete guide to the commentaries on individual constitutions and respective constitutional amendments of all major nations of the world, their constitutions, and the constitutional laws.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has articulated his vision for Americas future in an election-year tumult of campaign speeches and media interviews; now, this essential collection of Romneys direct quotes, past and present, is an invaluable primer that crystallizes his stance on domestic and social issues; national security; the economy; health care; and much more.

This book examines four unique dimensions of American political representation from the supply (legislator) and demand (constituent) perspectives.

This book offers a comprehensive, narrative account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades.

En medio del reciente debate sobre el cambio de la Constitución de nuestro país, que ha cobrado especial intensidad con la reforma constitucional habilitante de un procedimiento para elaborar una nueva Constitución a fines de 2019, vuelve a surgir con fuerza la noción de tradición constitucional chilena como parámetro de evaluación del proceso constituyente.

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.

America urgently needs a new direction.