Constitution: government and the state

The Bill of Rights-the first 10 amendments to the U.

Individuals vary in their ability to reflect on and override partisan impulses, affecting their ability to rationally evaluate politicians.

American Constitutional History presents a concise introduction to the constitutional developments that have taken place over the past 225 years, treating trends from history, law, and political science.

Runner-Up: Journal of the American Revolution Book of the YearStrikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution.

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

The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay--known collectively as the Federalist Papers--comprise the lens through which we typically view the ideas behind the U.

This book traces the politics of the Shia in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia since the nineteenth century.

DOD spends billions of dollars annually to sustain its weapon systems to support current and future operations.

This book offers a comprehensive look at the conceptualization, measurement, and political impacts of implicit attitudes.

Americas greatest days are yet to come.

Spin Control, originally published in 1992, chronicles the development of the powerful White House Office of Communications and its pivotal role in molding our perception of the modern presidency.

With the aim to awaken and prepare secular masses to rise to the occasion so as to save this sovereign democratic socialist republic from being shipped into the clutches of communal forces, the book present the now strengthening communal forces still able to drive a whirlwind across the country and their attacks on various walks of Indian life.

The modern landscape of American entertainment is filled with commentary on the state of the union.

Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene.

Praise for The Elephant in the Room"e;This funny, sobering, smart book reminds Republicans that having beliefs isn't good enough.

Self-described populist leaders around the world are dismantling their nation's constitutions.

This book provides the first-ever systematic study of causes and consequences of elite party switching in the US.

Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them.

The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer.

Seeking Equality compares economic inequality in the United States and Canada.

This book explains why Algeria''s post-colonial domestic political economy unravelled, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony.

In William Howard Tafts Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J.

The election of Donald J.

2024 wird die bundesrepublikanische Demokratie 75 Jahre alt, doch steht es um die Jubilarin nicht zum Besten.

The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 was hailed by many as a historic event and by some as the end of the Reagan era in American politics.

Demonstrates the paramount importance of laws in securing political equilibrium, stability, the integration of conquered peoples and a long-lasting empire.

From campus protests to the Congress floor, the central feature of contemporary American politics is ideological polarization.

How Trump has used the federal government to promote conservative policiesThe presidency of Donald Trump has been unique in many respects most obviously his flamboyant personal style and disregard for conventional niceties and factual information.

An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings.

At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P.

This book offers a new account of the power of federal courts in the United States to hear and determine uncontested applications to assert or register a claim of right.

Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations.

This book explores why juries have declined in power and how the federal government and the states have taken the jury''s authority.

This book traces the theory of Quaker constitutionalism from the early Quakers through Founding Father John Dickinson to Martin Luther King, Jr.

This book showcases eight judges that exemplify judicial greatness and looks at what role they play in law and society.

In this abridged edition for the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series American by Birth is now available in a format designed for students and general readers and includes a chronology outlining the key points in the case plus a bibliographical essay.

Der indische Seiltrick fokussiert auf einen wichtigen, aber gefährlich ignorierten Defekt des modernen politischen Denkens, nämlich den unvorsichtigen Gebrauch und den Missbrauch von Sprache.

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.

This interdisciplinary volume highlights the essential role of effective government in sustaining democratic constitutionalism.