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  • Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment
    William B. Glidden / William B. Glidden / William BGlidden
    The discrepancy between the fourteenth amendment’s true meaning as originally understood, and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of its meaning over time, has been dramatic and unfortunate. The amendment was intended to be a constitutional rule for the promotion and protection of people’s rights, administered by the states as front-line regulators of life, liberty, and property...
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    132,12 €

  • Konzeptioneller Vergleich von drei Aufsätzen zum Organisationslernen
    Michael Pluge
    Essay aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Veranstaltung: Professionelle Handlungskompetenzen der Erwachsenenbildung/Weiterbildung unter forschungstheoretischer Perspektive: Organisationspädagogik: Organisationslernen und Bildungsmanagement, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgenden Ausfüh...
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    13,72 €

  • El Constitucionalismo Hispano Americano Pre-Gaditano 1811-1812
    Allan R. Brewer-CARias / Allan RBREWER-CARÍAS
    Este libro del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, recoge el conjunto de ensayos que elaboró durante los últimos diez años con motivo de su participación en diversos eventos académicos conmemorativos de la Constitución de Cádiz de 1812, que fue la primera Constitución europea, después de la Constitución francesa de 1791, en haber adoptado los principios del constitucionalismo mod...
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    35,16 €

  • An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
    John Taylor
    Originally published in 1814, this is a reprint of the Yale University Press 1950 edition with an introduction by Roy Franklin Nichols. 562 pp. Taylor wrote this important work in 1814 as a reply to John Adams’s Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. Unlike Adams, he rejects the concept of 'a natural aristocracy' of 'paper and patronage' and...
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    49,94 €

  • An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
    John Taylor
    Originally published in 1814, this is a reprint of the Yale University Press 1950 edition with an introduction by Roy Franklin Nichols. 562 pp. Taylor wrote this important work in 1814 as a reply to John Adams’s Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. Unlike Adams, he rejects the concept of 'a natural aristocracy' of 'paper and patronage' and...
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    61,65 €

  • Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court
    Vincent Phillip Munoz
    Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that ...
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    201,39 €

  • The Constitution of English Literature
    Michael Gardiner
    In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of the discipline of English Literature in the light of the serious redefining work on England and Englishness that has been conducted in Political Studies in the last decade. He argues that English Literature emerges from the development of the state and that consequently it has suppressed the idea of the nation. H...
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    161,22 €

  • A Patriot’s Call to Action
    Jim Delaney
    A Patriot’s Call to Action will enable busy Americans to more easily square today’s unending political palaver and double-talk with our Constitution’s original intent. In bite-sized form, this eminently readable book clearly summarizes some key constitutional concepts, like the Supremacy Clause, the Welfare Clause, Nullification, Executive Orders, Impeachment, Secession, etc., ...
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    18,18 €

  • Reflections on Slavery and the Constitution
    George Anastaplo
    In this insightful book about constitutional law and slavery, George Anastaplo illuminates both how the history of race relations in the United States should be approached and how seemingly hopeless social and political challenges can be usefully considered through the lens of the U.S. Constitution. He examines the outbreak of the American Civil War, its prosecution, and its af...
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    67,61 €

  • Perfecting the Constitution
    Darren Patrick Guerra
    He who can change the Constitution controls the Constitution. So who does control the Constitution? The answer has always been: 'the people.' The people control the Constitution via the Article V amending process outlined in the Constitution itself. Changes can only be made through Article V and its formal procedures. Article V has always provided a means of perfecting the Cons...
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    123,54 €

  • Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
    Joseph Story
    Joseph Story’s famous and influential review of the origins, influences, and early interpretations of the U.S. Constitution is now presented in the author’s own 1833 Abridged Edition-considered the most useful and readable version of this important work, from the Supreme Court’s youngest Justice. The new, affordable hardcover edition adds a 2013 introduction by Kermit Roosevelt...
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    73,67 €

  • Constitution of Spain
    Victor Ferreres Comella
    This book provides a critical introduction to the principles and institutions that make up the Spanish Constitution, which was enacted in 1978. It first explains the process of transition from Franco’s dictatorship to democracy, in order to understand the historical circumstances under which the Constitution was framed. After offering a theory to justify the authority of the Co...
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    45,57 €

  • Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies
    Hanna Lerner
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    59,02 €

  • Impartial Justice
    Eric T. Kasper / Eric TKasper
    This book examines the right to a neutral and detached decisionmaker as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. This right resides in the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to procedural due process and in the Sixth Amendment’s promise of an impartial jury. Supreme Court cases on these topics are the vehicles to understand how these constitutional...
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    108,41 €

  • Time for Harvest. Women and Constitution Making in Kenya
    Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
    From the bleak days of severe marginalisation; days when words such as ’women’s empowerment’ or ’affirmative action’ were taboo in Kenya, Time for harvest: Women and Constitution Making in Kenya traces women’s struggles to change their status, their lives and their entire destiny. It is a brilliant exposition of the sheer ingenuity, perseverance and tenacity to contribute to th...
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    106,29 €

  • Just Dreaming
    Joe Amico
    Is the American Dream real? Do we have a right to it, or is it just suggestion? Where did it come from? Joseph Amico, the son of Sicilian immigrants, provides the answers to these key questions in this essay on American history and politics. More importantly, he explains why the dream is in jeopardy and how it can be saved. Raised a Catholic, Amico became a skeptic of politics ...
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    23,69 €

  • Just Dreaming
    Joe Amico
    Is the American Dream real? Do we have a right to it, or is it just suggestion? Where did it come from? Joseph Amico, the son of Sicilian immigrants, provides the answers to these key questions in this essay on American history and politics. More importantly, he explains why the dream is in jeopardy and how it can be saved. Raised a Catholic, Amico became a skeptic of politics ...
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    15,29 €

  • 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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    141,60 €

  • Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
    Nader Sohrabi
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    194,11 €

  • The Constitution and What It Means
    William James
    There have been volumes upon volumes written about the US Constitution, but many of them just confuse things. William James, a longtime student of the US Constitution, relies on James Madison, its recognized father, as well as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay to reveal the document’s true meaning in this detailed analysis. James reveals what the Founding Fathers really intended ...
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    13,95 €

  • The Constitution and What It Means
    William James
    There have been volumes upon volumes written about the US Constitution, but many of them just confuse things. William James, a longtime student of the US Constitution, relies on James Madison, its recognized father, as well as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay to reveal the document’s true meaning in this detailed analysis. James reveals what the Founding Fathers really intended ...
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    19,54 €

  • The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order
    The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In the revised edition of this book, now including new two chapters assessing the Obama administration and federalism and Obama as commander-in-chief, a diverse group of presidential scholars steps back from the partisan debate to consider the Obama presidency through the lens...
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    56,78 €

  • The Constitution of China
    Qianfan Zhang
    This book on China’s constitution and its tradition of constitutionalism is one of the first in the English language, and as such provides a much needed overview of China’s constitutional history and present arrangements. The nine chapters are divided into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 & 2) deals with China’s constitutional history, its indigenous and Confucian antece...
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    45,52 €

  • The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action examines the events surrounding the development of the U.S. Constitution. Setting these events within the context of the colonial conflict with Britain and the experience with state constitutions under the Articles of Confederation, John R. Vile discusses the delegates who attended the Constitutio...
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    63,90 €

  • The Constitution of the Confederate States of America Explained
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Patterned on the Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was written during February and March 1861 by a committee of twelve Southern political leaders, whose states had recently seceded from the Union. A revolutionary document then as now, its writers and supporters hoped the CS Constitution would continue the conserv...
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    20,27 €

  • A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States
    Joseph Story
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    34,99 €

  • A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States
    Joseph Story
    THE POPULAR EDITION OF A LANDMARK STUDY OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONFirst published in 1833, Joseph Story’s three-volume Commentaries on the Constitution (1833) was the first extensive study of the Federal Constitution and the standard work of the antebellum era. Story also produced an abridged one-volume edition for advanced students. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution is a...
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    24,58 €

  • The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States
    John M. Shirley / John MShirley
    Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1816-1819) established significant precedents concerning state authority and the nature of private enterprise. Dartmouth College was incorporated under a royal charter in 1769 as a private corporation. In 1816 the New Hampshire Legislature attempted to transform the college into a state institution. Daniel Webster, representing the college trustee...
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    28,10 €

  • The English Constitution
    Walter Bagehot
    'There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he...
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    21,27 €

  • Gridlock
    Payne Edwards
    American governance is incapable of meeting the needs of the people and has put the country on a path to financial crisis. Today's turmoil has spawned general discontent and widespread frustration, but there seems to be no way out. This essay is not a prescription for restructuring, reforming or remaking the federal government. Rather, it takes a step back, and suggests a visi...
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    18,04 €