Constitution: government and the state

Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different.

Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document.

In this book, HP Lee explores how the separation of powers doctrine in Malaysia has been adversely affected by a number of major constitutional conflicts among the various important organs of government.

The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain.

Questions if voters would vote differently if it were illegal to discriminate in voting?

Explains how abortion politics influenced a fundamental shift in conservative Christian politics, teaching conservatives to embrace rights arguments.

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A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

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

This book examines territorial governance in Asia in the context of central-local relations.

In Useful Bullshit Neil J.

A clearly written and accessible explanation of the Supreme Court''s same-sex marriage decision, its reasoning, and the consequences and controversies surrounding it.

From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the South has exerted an outsized influence on American government and history, while being distinctly anti-government.

This book studies representation in Chinese local congresses, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and quantitative surveys of congressmen and women.

Understand the foundation, principles, and rights that govern the United States with this vital, unbiased, and comprehensive primer to the US Constitution.

This book illuminates the sources and consequences of cycles and instability in the mathematical theory of voting and social choice.

“A heartening reminder that politicians, at their best, can rise above petty rivalries and jealousies to serve a larger cause.

In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) and is focused on the following topics: Health Care; Government Operations; Telecommunications.

Reveals how Supreme Court justices'' personalities, particularly conscientiousness, influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution.

Brown v.

The first edition of The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism focused on the impact of federalism on social policy during a period of economic growth and expanding social expenditures.

Das Modell «Schweiz» ist in Gefahr.

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation.

The United States uses 42 billion gallons of water a day-treated to meet Federal drinking water standards-to support a variety of needs.

Provides an innovative study of how mixed judicial selection operates to influence judges'' and courts'' decisions.

Föderalismus und Demokratie sind für uns selbstverständliche Merkmale deutscher Gegenwartspolitik.

This report looks at the institutional framework of corporate governance in China through the prism of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and is a product of the ongoing OECD-China Policy Dialogue on Corporate Governance.

Drawing on current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British State today and looks at its place in the future.

This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war.

The first examination of the impact of reforms intended to promote government transparency and increase public participation in China.

Provides the first natural law justification for an originalist interpretation of the American Constitution.

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

Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde (b.

The field of knowledge for development now occupies a top position on the agenda of all Asian governments as well as large development organizations.

This book explores some of the most glaring misunderstandings about the U.

In The Mississippi State Constitution, John W.

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism.