Constitution: government and the state

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency.

La libre determinación de los pueblos indígenas es un derecho fundamental reconocido por el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos a partir del cambio del paradigma de la asimilación al paradigma intercultural.

One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the U.

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Both enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy.

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

Why federalism is pulling America apart-and how the system can be reformedFederalism was James Madison's great invention.

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'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.

'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccol Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.

Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet.

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia.

Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world.

In this all-new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores immediate and urgent international concerns including Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the US midterm elections and its ramifications for the future.

What is the point of Kings and Queens?

Britain Unwrapped provides a wide-ranging discussion of the contemporary system of government.

How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American historyAmerican governance is burdened by a paradox.

Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.

Letters to America was written to energize Americans at a time of economic stress and self-doubt.

Este volumen recoge las actas del XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Colombiana de Juristas Católicos, acogido por la Universidad Católica de Colombia, y organizado como siempre por la Unión Internacional de Juristas Católicos (Roma), el Grupo Sectorial en Ciencias Políticas de la Federación Internacional de Universidades Católicas (París) y el Consejo de Estudios Hispánicos Felipe II (Madrid).

The Times - Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics - and the pivotal moments that got us where we are now.

Die Französische Revolution eine Revolution des Volkes?

Der Weg der USA vom bewunderten Vorbild der Demokratie in die TyranneiAmerikas Demokratie ist die alteste der modernen Welt und weist eine beeindruckende Kontinuitat auf doch mit der Prasidentschaft Donald Trumps ist sie in eine existenzielle Krise geraten.