Constitution: government and the state

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.

Montana's state constitution was created during the early 1970s.

The Arkansas State Constitution provides an outstanding historical account of Arkansas's five different constitutions, conventions, and amendments.

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy.

As part of a new series of Greenwood's comprehensive reference guides to the United States Constitution, Professor Durchslag's edition on the Eleventh Amendment's guarantee of state sovereign immunity is the most thorough and up-to-date treatment of that amendment.

Formally, Kansas still operates under a constitution dating from 1959.

This set of fifteen volumes under the title International Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions, Commentaries and Laws provides readers with a complete guide to the commentaries on individual constitutions and respective constitutional amendments of all major nations of the world, their constitutions, and the constitutional laws.

In The Louisiana State Constitution, Lee Hargrave provides a compehensive history and provision-by-provision commentary of the state's current constitution.

In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies.

What kind of document is the United States Constitution and how does that characterization affect its meaning?

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).

A fascinating manifesto, proposing that the world should be split into smaller regions to distribute power more evenly.

This set of fifteen volumes under the title International Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions, Commentaries and Laws provides readers with a complete guide to the commentaries on individual constitutions and respective constitutional amendments of all major nations of the world, their constitutions, and the constitutional laws.

The Vermont State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

In The Indiana State Constitution, William P.

The Maryland State Constitution is the only comprehensive analysis of Maryland's constitution.

A study of the rivalry between two American politicians and how it transformed them & the nation they sought to lead in the dark days before the Civil War.

A plan for restoring and protecting freedom, based on the United States Constitution.

This set of fifteen volumes under the title International Encyclopaedia of World Constitutions, Commentaries and Laws provides readers with a complete guide to the commentaries on individual constitutions and respective constitutional amendments of all major nations of the world, their constitutions, and the constitutional laws.

"e;An essential starting point for those assessing the Obama presidency.

The New Mexico State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change-and how they fought for help.

From small-scale experiments, deliberative mini-publics have recently taken a constitutional turn in Europe.

Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'.

The first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America.

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades.

The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it beforeSome of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence.

For well over two centuries, the United States Constitution has served as a charter for a free, democratic government and for a country that has risen from a dicey political experiment to an economic and political superpower.

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary.

For well over two centuries, the United States Constitution has served as a charter for a free, democratic government and for a country that has risen from a dicey political experiment to an economic and political superpower.

The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during the first four years of his presidency, and once again during the 2012 presidential campaign.

An inherent tension resides in the Fourth Amendment's strictures on unreasonable searches and seizures.

These essays by political scientists provide “an effective snapshot of where the presidency appears to be heading in the 21st century .

A study of the Supreme Court tenure of the only US president to serve as chief justice provides a unique perspective on 1920s America.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship.

The Nebraska Constitution is one of the oldest state constitutions in America.