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Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 499 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of the most important cases ever argued before the Court, from Marbury v. Madison and Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott decision) to Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade.
3) The Constitution of the United States of America as amended: unratified amendments, analytical index
Series
House document volume no. 110-50
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vi, 79 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xvii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Robert F. Utter and Hugh D. Spitzer's excellent study of the Washington Consitution is the latest volume in a series, Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States, which reflects a renewed interest in state constitutions and will contribute to our knowledge about them. Because the constitutional tradition of each state is distinctive, the volume begins with the history and development of the Washington Constitution. It then provides...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions--some enlightened, many oppressive--to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 817 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Description
"Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar tells the story of America's constitutional conversation during its first eighty years--from the Constitution's birth in 1760 through the 1830s, when the last of America's early leaders died. Amar traces the threads of Constitutional discourse, uniting history and law in a narrative that seeks both to reveal this history anew and to make clear who was right and who was wrong on the biggest legal issues confronting...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, and the motivations of the nine men and women who serve for life are often obscure. Now, in Uncertain Justice, Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz show the surprising extent to which the Roberts Court is revising the meaning of our Constitution....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court's nine justices explicitly embrace the originalist approach, as do increasing numbers of judges in the lower courts. Noted legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gives a comprehensive analysis...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution's protections...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Description
By the time of his retirement in June 2010, the author had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book articulating not only the need for changes, but also what those improvements should be. This is a call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the...
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Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
xii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In an age of executive overreach, what role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and defending liberty? Must we rely on the federal courts, and the Supreme Court above all, to protect our rights? This book argues that we all have a part to play in the grand civic dramas of our era--and in a revised introduction and conclusion, he proposes specific tactics for fighting Donald Trump's policies...[This book] reveals how groups...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Melvin Urofsky's major new book looks at the role of dissent in the Supreme Court and the meaning of the Constitution through the greatest and longest lasting public-policy debate in the country's history, among members of the Supreme Court, between the Court and the other branches of government, and between the Court and the people of the United States"--Dust jacket.
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