Constitution: government and the state

For most of us, the Bill of Rights is sacred.

Although sometimes decried by pundits, George W.

Why did hundreds of Democratic strongholds break for Donald Trump in 2016 and stay loyal to him in 2020?

An original new textbook providing an up-to-date, critical perspective of how the EU works, and what issues it faces, in the post-crisis era.

A deep look into the agency that implements the president's marching orders to the rest of the executive branchThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agencies-but it's also one of the least-known among the general public.

Law is fast globalizing as a field, and many lawyers, judges and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative "e;borrowing"e;.

This book presents an account of the adoption of electoral reforms democratizing electoral practices in nineteenth century European countries.

Building the Republican State is an insightful analysis of the new state and the new public management that is emerging in the twenty-first century.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

Hacking the Electorate is the most comprehensive study to date about the consequences of campaigns using microtargeting databases to mobilize voters in elections.

"e;Attorney and literary agent Goldfarb (editor, After Snowden) delivers a lacerating critique of inequities in America's criminal and civil justice systems and the role of lawyers in perpetuating them.

This book places the 2010 elections in Florida in historical context and offers insight into and an explanation for the substantial gains made by the Republicans that year.

Brown v.

If one counts the production of constitutional documents alone, the nineteenth century can lay claim to being a 'constitutional age'; one in which the generation and reception of constitutional texts served as a centre of gravity around which law and politics consistently revolved.

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.

Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anti-colonial campaigners of the post-war world.

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.

When a person is not recognised as a citizen anywhere, they are typically referred to as 'stateless'.

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups.

Lament for America explores the major challenges to the status of the United States as a world superpower.

Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This book analyses constitutional change in federal and decentralizing countries from a comparative perspective.

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

The question whether and how boundaries might individuate and thereby be constitutive features of any imaginable legal order has yet to be addressed in a systematic and comprehensive manner by legal and political theory.

Court and policy makers have increasingly had to deal withand sometimes even embracetechnology, from podcasts to the Internet.

Analyzes the role of religion, politics and social movements in relation to LGBTQ rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Virginia State Constitution examines constitutional amendments, court decisions, attorney general opinions, and legislative deliberations bearing on the development and interpretation of the Virginia Constitution.

White House expert Lauren A.

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 December, grouped according to topics.

The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms.

Demokratie hat in Deutschland schon einmal den Weg in die Diktatur geebnet.

This book provides a concise overview of the institutions of government in modern democracies, including constitutions, legislatures, heads of state and of government, variations of federalism, and electoral systems.

The world is facing many great challenges: from pandemics to climate change, and from increasing inequality to the issues surrounding digitalization.

This book presents new insights and the most up-to-date research on Saudi Arabia''s social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.

In 1986, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, William H.

Joachim Bahlcke präsentiert kenntnisreich die allmähliche Umformung spätmittelalterlicher Fürstenherrschaft zum frühneuzeitlichen Territorialstaat in der Zeit zwischen 1500 und 1800, die Historiker heute kurz als Epoche der Staatsbildung bezeichnen.

This Element presents data-driven approach that evaluates the performance of the administration of a democratic election.