The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.
With an introduction that traces the long constitutional history of Florida, Talbot D'Alemberte provides a thorough understanding of Florida's state constitutional history.
With an introduction that traces the long constitutional history of Florida, Talbot D'Alemberte provides a thorough understanding of Florida's state constitutional history.
American politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes are often inundated with public-opinion polls.
It is safe to say that a sizeable majority of the world's population would agree with the proposition that that property rights are important for political and social stability as well as economic growth.
'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccol Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.
Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government.
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.
Parliament as an Export (1966) deals with the adoption of overseas countries and particularly the Commonwealth countries of the British Parliamentary system.
Este volumen recoge las actas del XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Colombiana de Juristas Católicos, acogido por la Universidad Católica de Colombia, y organizado como siempre por la Unión Internacional de Juristas Católicos (Roma), el Grupo Sectorial en Ciencias Políticas de la Federación Internacional de Universidades Católicas (París) y el Consejo de Estudios Hispánicos Felipe II (Madrid).
A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationThe war on terrorism has raised profound questions of domestic governancenot primarily about power or policy, but about the capacities of government agencies, their personnel, procedures, work habits and styles, and ability to interface with each other.
The Constitution states that "e;"e;no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States,"e;"e; yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie.
"e;We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Times - Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics - and the pivotal moments that got us where we are now.
