Constitution: government and the state

In Against Reform, John Pepall offers a stringent critique of proposed reforms to Canada's political institutions.

Locates the origins of the modern sense of a Founder''s Constitution in Antebellum debates over slavery in the nation''s capital.

Ex-Navy SEAL sniper Scott Taylor served his country for eight years.

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects.

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

The edited and abridged diaries of the 40th U.

This book examines the role of the public and policy makers in enabling the race problem in the American criminal justice system.

Nationally syndicated talk show host and political strategist Hugh Hewitt delivers this insider's guide to the 2006 elections and the crucial messages GOP candidates and activists will be adopting to foster the spread of Red States.

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism.

This book explains the politics behind the design of the US Constitution.

This book explores the significance of religious resurgence and violence in Nigeria, and how informal local government power-sharing reduces communal Muslim-Christian violence.

Bartelson''s discussion of the suppositions and presuppositions of statehood is informed both historically and philosophically.

Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Krieg unterzeichnete die Trump-Regierung im Februar 2020 ein Abkommen mit den Taliban, wonach die Truppen der USA und ihrer NATO-Verbundeten Afghanistan innerhalb der nachsten Monate verlassen mussen.

Shows how local actors shape social policy in China through distinct priorities and different approaches to governing.

Chong argues that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster sovereignty.

The state is the most powerful and contested of political ideas, loved for its promise of order but hated for its threat of coercion.

In 1910, Mrs.

This book looks at how public authority and the state are formed throughout Africa in land struggles and debates over property.

The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel''s career and influence.

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

This book analyzes the conflict between two rising powers - direct democracy and the courts.

Surveys patterns of crisis, coercion and credibility in US-North Korea relations from the 1960s through to 2010.

The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

Today''s struggle for free speech is placed into historical context to explore how laws protect, or threaten, less-powerful speakers.

As "e;market referees"e;, regulators contribute to the delivery of essential public services.

Politische Philosophie taucht tief in den Bereich des politischen Denkens und der philosophischen Kritik ein.

Americas greatest days are yet to come.

In What's Law Got to Do With It?

This Element argues public opinion will converge toward truth over time.

In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule.

Written by 55 of the richest white men of early America, and signed by only 39 of them, the constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism.

Some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order revolve around a frequently invoked but highly contested concept: sovereignty.

Explains impeachment from its English roots through 250 years of American constitutional experience, including the case against President Trump.

A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "e;rough justice"e;: the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law.

This book provides the most thorough examination ever written of Mormons'' place in the American political landscape.

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

Pay-to-Play Politics examines money and politics from different angles to understand a central paradox of American democracy: why, when the public and politicians decry money as the worst aspect of American politics, are there so few signs of change?

This Element provides a comprehensive assessment of the power of polls and the implications for poll reporting in contemporary elections.

The classic you-are-there account of the Nixon-McGovern election by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author: "e;A brilliant analysis.

Traces the history of, and analyzes, the current status of the law on a number of prohibited acts forbidden to the federal government as prescribed in Article I, Section 9, of the United States Constitution.

A unique and compelling portrait of William F.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSince at least the time of Justinianunder statutes, codes of judicial ethics, and the common lawjudges have been expected to recuse themselves from cases in which they might have a stake.