Constitution: government and the state

Deutschland steckt in einer Polykrise, auch die DemokratieDie Herausforderungen für Rechtsstaat und Demokratie in Deutschland nehmen zu.

The political theory of the Irish Constitution considers Irish constitutional law and the Irish constitutional tradition from the perspective of Republican theory.

This book provides new insight into how and when lobbyists influence the American policy-making process.

This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Constitutional law has been and remains an area of intense philosophical interest, and yet the debate has taken place in a variety of different fields with very little to connect them.

Dieses Arbeitsbuch richtet sich an Studierende wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Studiengänge.

The first study of the roles played by senior British officials and civil servants in the Northern Ireland peace process.

The United Statesthe worlds great bastion of freedomis sliding toward socialism.

Provides a quantitative history of the development of constitutional law in the United States during the past 150 years.

How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain the current American constitutionalism.

Conservative plans for a coalition government, a snap General Election, prime ministers considering whether to resign after an electoral or referendum defeat, and the prospect of Labour and Conservative deals with the Liberals, SNP and Northern Ireland Unionist parties, have become dominant features of British politics since 2010, and the hung parliament in June 2017.

Federal judges, legal scholars, pundits, and reporters frequently describe the Supreme Court as the final word on the meaning of the Constitution.

Shall Not be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment is a history of the relatively short gun control debate in America and a revealing description of how those hostile to the Second Amendment use polls, studies, and numbers to confuse the public.

Democrats and Republicans have become geographically divided along regional lines, which has furthered the ideological polarization of American politics.

Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history.

A look into how the temporary residents of the White House expressed the deepest of all human feelings-personal religious faith-in their own words.

"Unruhen" als Forschungsgegenstand haben in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten eine bemerkenswerte Aufmerksamkeit gefunden.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

This book examines the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab world.

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 January, grouped according to topics.

Examines predatory practices in mortgage markets to provide invaluable insight into the racial wealth gap between black and white Americans.

In diesem Standardwerk zu Demokratietheorien ordnen verschiedene Autor*innen Ausschnitte aus Originaltexten historisch ein.

Were Americas Founders Christians or deists?

An analysis of the emergence of NGOs across China in three different issue areas: environmental protection, HIV/AIDS prevention, and gay and lesbian rights.

This Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its military posture over the last three decades.

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.

Some ethnic communities receive generous material rewards for their political support, whilst others only receive very modest payoffs.

For only the second time in close to a quarter century, the U.

The British referendum on the membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016 was a cataclysmic event in British and European politics.

Assesses the function, successes of and challenges for the EU''s Common Security and Defence Policy.

This "e;Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions"e; contains the full text for the constitutions of all important countries of the world.

Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.

What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted?

A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous Deep Throat, the medias role in the scandal, both during and afterwards, including Bob Woodwards Second Man.

A comprehensive collection of Alexander Hamilton''s major political writings, covering his public career, from 1775 to his death in 1804.

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Americans err in thinking that while their politics may be ailing, their Constitution is fine.

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world.

This book argues that voters'' willingness to hold lawmakers accountable produces insights into legislative organization, behavior and output.

The Democratic Alliance won control of the uMngeni Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands after the local government elections in 2021.