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  • The Constrained Court

    Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make

    by Forrest Maltzman, Michael A. Bailey ...
    How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences? Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court combines new theoretical insights and extensive data analysis to show that law and politics together shape the behavior of justices on the Supreme Court.Michael Bailey and Forrest Maltzman show how two types of ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Living Legislation

    Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking

    by William J. Novak, Jeffrey E. Cohen, Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Sean Gailmard, Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, William G. Howell, Forrest Maltzman, Charles R. Shipan, Amihai Glazer, David E. Lewis, Stuart Chinn, Vesla M. Weaver, David R. Mayhew, Sidney M. Milkis ...
    Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Court and the World

    American Law and the New Global Realities

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private—from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade—obliges the Court to understand and consider circumstances beyond America’s ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Conscience of the Constitution

    The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty

    by Timothy Sandefur ...
    The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence–that has led to the growth of government ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Republic

    by Plato ...
    Series series First Avenue Classics ™
    What is justice? And what is its relation to happiness? These two questions form the central themes of this philosophic text, written by the Greek philosopher Plato around 380 BCE. It is framed as a Socratic dialogue—a conversation and argument led by Plato's teacher Socrates. In his attempt to define the concept of both societal and individual justice, Plato covers ethics, political philosophy, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

    The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History

    by Keith E. Whittington ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not simply seized power and circumvented politics. The justices have had power thrust upon them--by politicians, for the ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • The Case for Impeachment

    by Allan J. Lichtman ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." — The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes, answers these questions, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Abuse of Discretion

    The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade

    by Clarke D. Forsythe ...
    Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, Abuse of Discretion is a critical review of the behind-the-scenes deliberations that went into the Supreme Court's abortion decisions and how the mistakes made by the Justices in 1971-1973 have led to the turmoil we see today in legislation, politics, and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Public Opinion (Annotated)

    by Walter Lippmann ...
    Public Opinion is a work by Walter Lippmann, published in 1922, that is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often self-serving, social perceptions that influence individual behavior, and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their socio-political and cultural environments, ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Behavior of Federal Judges

    a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice

    by Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner ...
    Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made. ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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