Constitution: government and the state

For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins.

By advancing ''Jacobinism'' as a historically specific geopolitical economy in world history, this book provides a new reading of the Ottoman and Turkish road to modernity.

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.

Some people would gnash their teeth at the idea that America was - and can be again - a Christian nation.

Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M.

In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertilised embryo was overturned and abortion was finally legalised.

This bestselling dictionary contains over 1,700 entries on all aspects of politics and international relations.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

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

The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy.

In recent years, a more active and aggressive Congress has often sharply disagreed with the president over the ends and means of American foreign policy.

Thomas Curry argues that discussion and interpretation of the First Amendment have reached a point of deep crisis.

DOD spends billions of dollars annually to sustain its weapon systems to support current and future operations.

Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

"e;A must-read for this era"e; that lays out in common sense language how the US Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes (Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent).

Utilizing case studies of seven Latin American countries, this book reassesses the role of legal institutions in the politics of the region.

This book offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the role of the United States in El Salvador''s civil war.

This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.

A comprehensive introduction to the meaning and history of the three key provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment''s first section.

An original new textbook providing an up-to-date, critical perspective of how the EU works, and what issues it faces, in the post-crisis era.

This book uses a multi-method approach to challenge the notion that financial markets exert a broad influence over economic policy making in emerging economies.

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government.

In Too Weak to Govern, Peter Hanson demonstrates the majority party''s important and underestimated ability to control the unruly Senate floor.

In the Supreme Courts 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.

Ex-Navy SEAL sniper Scott Taylor served his country for eight years.

A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "e;rough justice"e;: the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law.

America Afire is the powerful story of the election of 1800, arguably the most important election in America's history and certainly one of the most hotly disputed.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of June, grouped according to the topic: Justice and Law Enforcement.

Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.

Non, la démocratie américaine n’est pas finie.

Germany has long been at the centre of European debates surrounding the modern role of national constitutional law and its relationship with EU law.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe FBI’s former head of counterintelligence reveals the seven secrets of building and maintaining organizational excellence"e;A must read for serious leaders at every level.

Traditionally, legitimacy has been associated exclusively with states.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand''s political, economic, social and cultural history.

The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 created the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) to provide "e;overall direction of executive branch policies related to preventing conflicts of interests on the part of officers and employees of any executive branch agency.

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

Issues around the policing of public order and political expression are as topical today as in the past, and are likely to remain so in the future.

Explains the compatibility of economic development and democracy in the United States during industrialization.