'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-demBorders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it s the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum.
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.
The award-winning New York Times op-ed columnist probes the widening gap between American ideals and American realities, and urges us to do something about itBob Herbert is the conscience of the op-ed page of The New York Times, and his work is characterized by a strong moral vision and a deep understanding of the human costs of political decisions.
Is politics strictly a means to an endsomething that serves only the interests of individuals and the various associations of civil society such as families and charities?
Winner: Best Book in American Political Thought, American Political Science Association, American Political Thought sectionIn Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History Emily Pears investigates efforts by the founding generations leadership to construct and strengthen political attachments in and among the citizens of the new republic.
The Obama administration's overreaching and pervasive secularist policies represent the greatest government-directed assault on religious freedom in American history.
An unbiased examination of profiling in the criminal justice system-one of the most hotly contested public policy issues-on the streets, in the courts, and in the jails and prisons of America.
Analyses settlements between Israel and the West-Bank, the Green-Line, exploring the influence of geopolitics and geoeconomics on the production of space.
In a major reinterpretation of American political thought in the revolutionary era, Marc Kruman explores the process of constitution making in each of the thirteen original states and shows that the framers created a distinctively American science of politics well before the end of the Confederation era.
Chapter 1 is intended for Congressional members and staff assisting grant seekers in districts and states and covers writing proposals for both government and private foundation grants.
Ho-fung Hung argues that what underlies the change in US–China relations from amity to enmity is the changing relationship between US–China corporations.
Historians have generally ranked John Tyler as one of the least successful chief executives, despite achievements such as the WebsterAshburton treaty, which heralded improved relations with Great Britain, and the annexation of Texas.
Demonstrates how colleges routinely deny students fair hearings in sexual assault cases and define sexual assault in an unconstitutionally broad manner.
The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work.
This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics.
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.
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.
