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  • The Police Power

    Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

    par Markus Dirk Dubber ...
    Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.Dubber explores the roots of the power to police—the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers—by focusing on its most obvious ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Victims in the War on Crime

    The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights

    par Markus Dirk Dubber ...
    Collections Livre 47 - Critical America
    Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims, the war on crime has victimized offenders and victims alike. What we need instead, Dubber ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sense of Justice

    Empathy in Law and Punishment

    par Markus Dirk Dubber ...
    Collections Livre 71 - Critical America
    In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? ... En savoir plus

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  • Rediscovering Americanism

    And the Tyranny of Progressivism

    par Mark R. Levin ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America’s most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.Levin returns to ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    par Gordon S. Wood ...
    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... En savoir plus

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  • Canadian Founding

    John Locke and Parliament

    par Janet Ajzenstat ...
    Collections Livre 44 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history ... En savoir plus

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  • A Turn to Empire

    The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France

    par Jennifer Pitts ...
    A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid ... En savoir plus

    $63.79 CAD

  • Tocqueville

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Harvey C. Mansfield ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious ... En savoir plus

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  • The Conscience of the Constitution

    The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Political Theory of The Federalist

    par David F. Epstein ...
    In The Political Theory of “The Federalist,” David F. Epstein offers a guide to the fundamental principles of American government as they were understood by the framers of the Constitution. Epstein here demonstrates the remarkable depth and clarity of The Federalist’s argument, reveals its specifically political (not merely economic) view of human nature, and describes how and why the American ... En savoir plus

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  • Empire of the People

    Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought

    par Adam Dahl ...
    Collections series American Political Thought
    American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English settlers colonized the New World. Empire of the People explores a new way of understanding this ... En savoir plus

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  • Constituent Moments

    Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

    par Jason Frank ...
    Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic ... En savoir plus

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