Constitution: government and the state

This book examines how polarization threatens democracy and the sources of political and institutional resilience that can help sustain it.

This Element examines the ways in which China and it''s people form an integral part of the global capitalist system.

This Element examines the ways in which China and it''s people form an integral part of the global capitalist system.

This book examines how polarization threatens democracy and the sources of political and institutional resilience that can help sustain it.

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

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

Is the Democratic Party the ';Party of Death'?

We have taken on the challenge of asking AI (an artificial intelligence machine) uncomfortable questions and seeking answers that are both honest and insightful.

From the author of The Politics of Our TimeWhats happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together?

A short and concise primer on the fundamental principles of the American Government, This Republic draws upon the writings of the American founders, and extensively the writings of John Adams, to thoroughly explain the nature of republics and republican governments.

Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition!

In this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of ';collecting all authority into one center.

In this third and final volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams brings to a close his lengthy argument against collecting all authority into one center.

"e;Donald Gregg's career .

The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action.

There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W.

What would an Anti-Federalist Constitution look like?

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?

Until President Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal, most members of the public probably paid little attention to the presidents use of the clemency power.

The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines.

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles.

Iran's interaction with its neighbours is a topic of wide interest.

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

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

Despite their small populations, the Arab states of the Gulf exercise an enormous and global influence.

The military was the key political institution in early twentieth-century Turkey.

The history of the 20th century was dominated by the state - nationalism, national economies, national wars.

The author's objective within this book is to place the Arab world within a theoretical and comparative framework that avoids both orientalist and fundamentalist insistence on the utter peculiarity and uniqueness of the region.

How did the Ayatollah Khomeini create his Islamic state?

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century.

Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation?

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic.

First published in 1989, The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany has become an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of comparative, international, and constitutional law, as well as of German and European politics.

In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation.

In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J.

Although the federal appointment of U.

"e;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Few issues are as mired in rhetoric and controversy as affirmative action.

The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars.

In Constitutional Revolutions Robert Justin Lipkin radically rethinks modern constitutional jurisprudence, challenging the traditional view of constitutional change as solely an extension or transformation of prior law.

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.

Of all the written portraits of the delegates who attended the Federal Convention of 1787, few are as complete and compelling as those penned by William Pierce Jr.

In March 1812, while Napoleon's brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cadiz.

Explores the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, which marked a decisive break in a seemingly endless cycle of civil war in Colombia Kline argues that the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in a seemingly endless cycle of civil war.