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  • The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent

    par William G. Merkel, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, H. Richard Uviller ...
    Collections series Constitutional Conflicts
    "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."—Amendment II, United States ConstitutionThe Second Amendment is regularly invoked by opponents of gun control, but H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel argue the amendment has nothing to contribute to debates over private access to firearms. In The ... En savoir plus

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  • Kindly Inquisitors

    The New Attacks on Free Thought

    par Jonathan Rauch ...
    The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even ... En savoir plus

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  • Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy

    par Conrado Hübner Mendes ...
    Collections series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Make No Law

    The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

    par Anthony Lewis ...
    A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel—and was ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Modifié par Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges ... En savoir plus

    $76.99 CAD

  • Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

    Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

    par Emily Zackin ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. ... En savoir plus

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  • More Essential than Ever

    The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century

    par Stephen J. Schulhofer ...
    Collections series Inalienable Rights
    When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course, "papers and effects" are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    par Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton ...
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... En savoir plus

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  • The Soul of the First Amendment

    par Floyd Abrams ...
    The nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer"explores the American right to free speech in this thoughtful and concise volume" ( Publishers Weekly).The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution—the First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer ... En savoir plus

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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    par Alexander Keyssar ...
    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Unfinished Business

    Racial Equality in American History

    par Michael J. Klarman ...
    Collections series Inalienable Rights
    Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing that we have made less progress than we like to think. Indeed, African Americans have had to ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution

    par Alison L Young ...
    Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation. The UK's Human Rights Act 1998 is regarded as an example of a commonwealth model of rights protections. ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD