Constitution: government and the state

In Faith in American Public Life, Melissa Rogers--former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships--explores the role of religion in the public square and focuses on principles that define the relationship between government and religion.

"e;Woven through this text is the unifying theme that American politics represents "e;conflict and compromise,"e; in direct opposition to the increasingly commonly held view that all politics is dirty and all politicians are crooks.

Explores how amid America''s racial, religious, and civic struggles, voucher-supporting policymakers strategically attenuate policy design and communications to circumvent legal challenge.

Sovereignty is at the very centre of the political and legal arrangements of the modern world.

This book examines the design procedure for global governance, showing how state interest shapes global institutions.

The book liberates James Madison from Madisonian Constitutionalism and focuses on Madison''s treatment of the problem of constitutional imperfection.

The first transnational comparative study of legal party capability theory Justice is supposed to be blind.

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

What is the nature of the modern state?

This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies.

The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

This book presents a history which is nearing its nadir, where a species of warlike primates is destroying the delicate web of life perceived by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, committing a war against nature and the fastest mass extinction in the history of nature, with global temperatures incinerating the biosphere by several degrees Celsius, within a lifetime.

Die Herausgeber, Vertreter der Fächer Altes Testament und Alte Geschichte, legen mit Kollegen anderer Disziplinen zusammen ein interkulturelles Projekt zur Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften vor.

No province in Canada has codified a written constitution, and whether Quebec should be the first remains a controversial question.

A study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation.

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

A study of the state and international relations of Zimbabwe from the perspective of their citizens.

National BestsellerDon’t despair.

Andrews-Lee offers a novel explanation for the persistence of charismatic movements and highlights the resulting challenges for democracy.

This book shows that the design of electoral rules shapes how political leaders make health policies in response to social forces.

In 2012, Britain and the Commonwealth celebrate the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession to the throne.

Understanding India's politics and governance requires an examination of how politics and governance occur in the regional States, which constitute the federal units of India.

This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.

This book identifies conditions under which the Court is successful at altering the behavior of state and private actors.

In The Arizona State Constitution, John D.

Whistleblowing is "e;the act of reporting waste, fraud, abuse and corruption in a lawful manner to those who can correct the wrongdoing.

This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power.

“A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician”—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography (The Christian Science Monitor).

Donald Trump became famous bellowing, ';You're fired!

There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies.

The Maine State Constitution traces the history of Maine's constitution from its statehood in 1820 to the present day, highlighting major trends and developments in constitutional revision and interpretation.

From the 2023 Reith lecturer Politics is failing us.

This Companion presents a detailed assessment of Nozick''s Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy.

In The Utah State Constitution, Jean Bickmore White offers a comprehensive review of the unique historical background and the 100-year development of the Utah State Constitution.

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

Presidents are more constrained in exercising unilateral actions than before.

Accepting his party's presidential nomination in the summer of 2008, Barack Obama beamed while Denver's stadium rocked with gauzy chants from adoring admirers.

Based on conversations with Palestinians in Israel, David Grossman's Sleeping on a Wire, like The Yellow Wind, is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Middle East today.

In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J.

In these essays, written during the last fifteen years, Whitaker analyses the paradoxes of federalism and democracy in a society which is deeply divided by region, language, and class.