An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality.
The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new prefaceUnsurpassed in the fifteen years since its original publication, Irwin F.
The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of “big data,” which is now an integral part of governance and policy making.
From one of America’s most distinguished constitutional scholars, an intriguing exploration of America’s most famous political tract and its relevance to today’s politics In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America’s most famous political tract.
America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer speaks out on the most controversial free-speech issues of our time Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.
A "e;brisk and interesting"e; exploration of exposing misconduct in America-from the Revolutionary War era to the Trump years (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker).
An argument for why emergencies are no excuse for extralegal action by presidents Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of presidential powers.
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "e;modernization"e; in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions.
Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics.
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.
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Both enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy.
Charting 250 years of history, the 8th edition of this constitutional companion shows students just how revolutionary the Constitution was-and how relevant it remains today.
Some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order revolve around a frequently invoked but highly contested concept: sovereignty.
Recent years have seen a range of theoretical challenges to traditional notions of state sovereignty and a burgeoning debate about the power of the state in the face of globalization and new forms of governance.
We often hear-with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings-that justices should not create constitutional rights, but should instead enforce the rights that the Constitution enshrines.
For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time-among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the death penalty.
As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits.
As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits.
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.
The First Amendment guarantee that "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"e; rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths.
