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  • Kenya
    The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve aro...
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    46,19 €

  • Reflections on War and Peace and the Constitution
    George Anastaplo
    The attitudes and assumptions of different cultures and historical periods toward war and the maintenance of peace are reviewed by recalling authors who include Euripides, Sophocles, Plato, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Hobbes, and Zola. The challenges of war, peace, and national security for and by Americans are examined, and documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the...
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    165,89 €

  • Trust in the Capacities of the People, Distrust in Elites
    Kenneth Good / Kenneth Professor Good
    Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of itwhere people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an unending struggle to win such rights and power, to hold and to extend them. The contending classes are essentially the poor and weak majority of the people and the elite of wealth, status, and power. This book begins with the study o...
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    156,62 €

  • Writing Democracy
    'This is an interesting and timely collection of studies of an important document that is all too often neglected by scholars of other countries and traditions.' · Lynn Hunt, UCLA'Writing Democracy is a marvelous study of textual practices connected to the use of the Norwegian constitution and is thus situated in the engine room of modern Western style democracy.' · Peter H...
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    184,08 €

  • Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government
    Alexander Meiklejohn
    Originally published: New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, [1948]. xiv, 107 pp. Reprint of the sole edition.'Dr. Meiklejohn, in a book which greatly needed writing, has thought through anew the foundations and structure of our theory of free speech . . . he rejects all compromise. He reexamines the fundamental principles of Justice Holmes’ theory of free speech and finds it wa...
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    64,80 €

  • Recognise what?
    Gary Johns
    Four Aboriginal writers are worried about proposals for Aboriginal recognition in the Constitution. Australians should read these, and the other distinguished essays in this volume, before they embark on this venture. Wesley Aird -Anything more than a simple statement of historical fact risks the process being jeopardised by 'blackfella politics'. Anthony Dillon - The many thou...
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    18,11 €

  • The Flexible Constitution
    Sean Wilson
    This is an ambitious work on constitutional theory. Influenced by the views of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sean Wilson tackles the problem of how a judge can obey a document written in ordinary, flexible language. He argues that whether something is 'constitutional' is not an historical fact, but is an artisan judgment. Criteria are set forth showing why some judgments represent super...
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    65,27 €

  • Punto de inflexión
    Camilo Gómez-Alzate / Carlos Caballero Argáez / Diego Pizano Salazar / Fernando Tapias / Guillermo Fernández de Soto / Jaime Ruiz / Juan Camilo Restrepo / Mauricio Cárdenas / Molano Juan Carlos
    Punto de inflexión reseña y analiza la manera en la cual el Gobierno del presidente Andrés Pastrana Arango enfrentó los grandes problemas que amenazaban el futuro de Colombia el 7 de agosto de 1998. Sus capítulos, escritos por los protagonistas en los distintos campos, con la ventaja de la distancia que suministra el paso del tiempo, se centran en tres ejes fundamentales. El pr...
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    18,15 €

  • Re-Framers
    John Vile
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    142,49 €

  • Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
    Nader Sohrabi
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    54,35 €

  • Approaching the U.S. Constitution
    Kerry L. Hunter / Kerry L. Hunter / Kerry LHunter
    By reminding readers that early Supreme Court justices refused to reduce the Constitution to a mere legal document, Approaching the U.S. Constitution provides a definitive response to Reading Law by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. Turning to the vision of Alexander Hamilton found in Federalists No. 78, Hunter argues that rather than seeing the judiciary as America’s legal guar...
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    132,17 €

  • LA CONSTITUCION DE 1999
    Allan R. Brewer-CARias / Allan RBREWER-CARÍAS
    Este Tomo VII del Tratado de Derecho Constitucional del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, sobre La Constitución de 1961: Estado democrático y social de derecho (1.190 pp.), es la segunda edición actualizada de su obra La Constitución de 1999: Derecho Constitucional Venezolano, publicada en 2004, en la cual se recogen los cambios constitucionales y legales ocurridos desde 2004 ha...
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    63,56 €

  • Asamblea Constituyente y Proces0 Constituyente 1999. Coleccion Tratado de Derecho Constitucional, Tomo VI
    Allan R. Brewer-CARias / Allan RBREWER-CARÍAS
    Esta obra del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías sobre Asamblea Constituyente y Proceso Constituyente 1999, que se publica como Tomo VI de su Tratado de Derecho Constitucional, tiene por objeto estudiar el proceso constituyente en Venezuela, que dio origen a la Constitución de 1999, con base en el trabajo personal del autor, incluso como miembro de la Asamblea Nacional Constituye...
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    63,53 €

  • Historia Constitucional de Venezuela. Coleccion Tratado de Derecho Constitucional, Tomo I
    Allan R. Brewer-CARias / Allan RBREWER-CARÍAS
    Con la segunda edición de esta obra sobre Historia Constitucional de Venezuela (primera edición 2008), el profesor Allan Brewer-Carías da inicio como Tomo I a la publicación de su Tratado de Derecho Constitucional, el cual tiene como orientación el servir de recopilación y sistematización de toda su obra de las décadas pasadas, en materia de derecho constitucional.Se trata de l...
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    68,63 €

  • The Constitutional Guide
    R. K. Moulton / RKMoulton
    A Jacksonian-Era Primer on the U.S. Constitution. Originally published: New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1834. v, 147 pp. Dedicated to the 'People of the United States,' this is a layman’s edition of the U.S. Constitution published during the Jackson era, a time of greatly expanded male suffrage and wider participation in public affairs. As the sub-title indicates, the text is ...
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    43,72 €

  • The Constitutional Guide
    R.K. Moulton / R.KMoulton
    A Jacksonian-Era Primer on the U.S. Constitution. Originally published: New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1834. v, 147 pp. Dedicated to the 'People of the United States,' this is a layman’s edition of the U.S. Constitution published during the Jackson era, a time of greatly expanded male suffrage and wider participation in public affairs. As the sub-title indicates, the text is ...
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    32,01 €

  • A View of the Constitution of the United States of America [1829]
    William Rawle
    This treatise was the first comprehensive study of the United States Constitution, and one of the most important. Originally published: Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1829. viii, 349 pp. Though concise, Rawle provides a systematic analysis of the Constitution’s articles, as well as its historical background and philosophy. It is also a historically significant work because it...
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    42,93 €

  • A View of the Constitution of the United States of America Second Edition
    William Jr. Rawle / William JrRawle
    This treatise was the first comprehensive study of the United States Constitution, and one of the most important. Originally published: Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1829. viii, 349 pp. Though concise, Rawle provides a systematic analysis of the Constitution’s articles, as well as its historical background and philosophy. It is also a historically significant work because it...
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    23,38 €

  • Constitutional Conventions in Australia
    Ian Killey / TBD
    Australia’s constitutions tell only part of the story. They omit or barely mention many of the essential and well-known elements of the system of government, such as the cabinet, the prime minister or premier, ministerial responsibility or the opposition. This work fills that void by explaining the nature of conventions, how they arise, how they are altered, as well as their op...
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    141,67 €

  • This Republic
    Will Butts
    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. ...
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    12,17 €

  • The Articles of Confederation Explained
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Did you know that the United States of America began life as a confederacy, and that it was, in fact, officially called 'the Confederacy' between 1781 and 1789? Did you know that for those eight years the U.S. technically operated as, and was also nicknamed, 'The Confederate States of America,' and that because of this our first constitution was named 'The Articles of Confedera...
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    9,16 €

  • The United States Constitution
    John Vile
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    105,61 €

  • Restoring the Lost Constitution
    Randy E. Barnett
    The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation’s founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty ...
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    35,51 €

  • The Federalist Papers
    The Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. Written to New Yorkers in 1787 and 1788 to urge the ratification of the proposed new Constitution, the papers received immediate respect. They were published in book form in 1788 and had considerable influence in both the New York and Virginia ratifying conventions, serving as a source of philosop...
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    21,13 €

  • The Founders’ Key
    Larry P. Arnn / Larry PArnn
    Today the integrity and unity of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are under attack by the Progressive political movement. And yet, writes Larry P. Arnn:'The words of the Declaration of Independence ring across the ages. The arrangements of the Constitution have a way of organizing our actions so as to produce certain desirable results, and they have done thi...
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    17,49 €

  • One Nation Under God?
    Richard H. Jones / Richard HJones
    A firestorm of controversy developed when Michael Newdow challenged the constitutionality of the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance. In order to understand the legal issues and the public reaction, One Nation Under God? explores the history of the government’s references to God in our national motto, on coins, and in other governmental announcements, along with a hi...
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    55,96 €

  • Federalism
    Elaine J. Combs / Elaine JCombs / Susan Low Bloch / Vicki C. Jackson / Vicki CJackson
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    140,84 €

  • I Want My Country Back
    Jon W. Colson
    The US Constitution was written in plain English. Since the beginning people have interpreted it to fit their agenda. It was not meant to be interpreted, it was meant to be read. In 'I Want My Country Back' the most misrepresented parts of the Constitution are explained simply. How we have strayed so far from it, the damage that wrong interpretation has done and how we get back...
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    11,81 €

  • El Golpe de Enero (Documentos y Testimonios Para La Historia)
    Asdrubal Aguiar
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    31,03 €

  • Reflections on Religion, the Divine, and the Constitution
    George Anastaplo
    In Part One, the uses of divine revelation in the Western world are reviewed by recalling authors that include Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Maimonides, Cervantes, Hobbes, and Milton. The challenges posed by such monstrosities as Aztec human sacrifices and the Second World War Holocaust are recalled. In Part Two, the challenges of religion for and by Americans are ...
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    156,32 €