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How Free Can Religion Be?
by Randall P Bezanson  Publisher Comments Randall P. Bezanson's How Free Can Religion Be? explores the Supreme Court's varied history of interpreting the religious guarantees outlined in the First Amendment. The book discusses eight provocative Supreme Court decisions to track the evolution of...
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Roe V. Wade: A Woman's Choice? (Supreme Court Milestones)
by Susan Dudley Gold Publisher Comments Key Players are Highlighted, and the clear text takes readers along the complicated path that cases follow on their way to the Supreme Court, then through the decision-making process....
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The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Essentials of Canadian Law)
by Robert J. Sharpe Publisher Comments No other Canadian book provides such an accessible yet thorough and objective account of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The text has been thoroughly updated to reflect Charter jurisprudence since publication of the second edition in 2002...
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Legal Dimensions #6: Indigenous Legal Traditions
by Law Commission Of Canada (edt) Book News Annotation Under colonialism, the legal systems of Indigenous peoples in Canada have often been ignored or overruled by non-Indigenous laws. Seven Canadian academics, three of whom are members of First Nation clans, contribute five essays exploring the...
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The Rhode Island State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United St)
by Patrick T. And Robert G. Flanders Conley Publisher Comments From the colonial era to present time, the Rhode Island State Consitution's history is traced by analyzing legal cases, commission reports, and historical scholarship....
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Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto
by Alexander Polikoff Synopsis On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a pro bono case. Over lunch, the four talked about the Chicago Housing Authority construction program. All...
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Remnants of Belief: Contemporary Constitutional Issues
by Tushnet Seidman Publisher Comments Designed as a supplement for constitutional law courses and seminars, Seidman and Tushnet use examples drawn from the popular press, public discussion and law articles to show how and why constitutional debate has evolved into the political conundrum it...
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Case for Gay Rights (05 Edition)
by David A.j. Richards Publisher Comments A timely and eloquent intellectual treatise in defense of gay rights, based on a close examination of constitutional and democratic principles governing fundamental human rights relating to privacy, free speech, and conscience, and presented through the...
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Freedom of the Press (Bill of Rights)
by David L Hebert Publisher Comments Since the advent of the printing press in the fifteenth century, the press has met the needs of the public by providing information about current events and activities undertaken by its leaders. This integral role of the press was recognized with its...
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Active Liberty : Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (05 Edition)
by Stephen Breyer Publisher Comments This book, based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, argues that the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and...
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Separation of Church and State
by Philip Hamburger Publisher Comments In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never...
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Freedom of the Press
by Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky Publisher Comments This work discusses the major court decisions that answer the important questions affecting freedom of the press, providing illustrations and examples that give insight into this complex body of law. The clear and concise style of the book makes it an...
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Good Behaviour: The Supreme Court and Article III of the United States Constitution
by Samuel A. Francis Publisher Comments The controversy surrounding the presidential election in 2000 raised many issues regarding the behavior of some of the United States Supreme Court Justices. The Courts decision in the case of Bush v. Gore effectively stopped a recount of votes in Florida....
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Constitutional Law of the European Union
by Siona Douglas Scott Synopsis This introduction to the constitutional and institutional law of the European Union takes a critical, contextual approach to European integration, looking to political theory, philosophy, international relations, as well as to law. In this way, it...
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Legal Aspects of International Organization #44: The Security Council and the Use of Force
by Niels Blokker & Nico Schrijver Publisher Comments This book addresses the authority of the UN Security Council to regulate the use of force. In particular, it examines the question of whether the present composition, functions, and powers of the Security Council are adequate to meet recent demands, such...
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Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Edcuation and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reformation
by Derrick Bell Publisher Comments Turning history on its head, Bell suggests that if we had had more realism in our racial dealings, we might have kept Plessy, kept separate but equal in placem and attacked instead, at its root, the racial discrimination that continues to haunt the...
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To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution
by Robert A. Mcguire Publisher Comments This is a quantitative re-examination of the behavior of the founding fathers during the creation of the United States' Constitution. It employs cliometric analysis, formal economic analysis, and modern statistical techniques, to explain the choices the...
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We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
by Michael J Perry Publisher Comments Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such. In his new book, eminent legal scholar Michael Perry evaluates the grave...
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The Bill of Rights
by Thomas T. (edt) Lewis Publisher Comments The Bill of Rights is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of the U.S. Bill of Rights; from its origins to its role in modern American history. Special attention is given to the organic relationship of the Bill to the original Constitution, its ongoing...
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Right to Bear Arms (American Rights)
by Geraldine Woods Publisher Comments American democracy owes much to the rights guaranteed to individuals in the U.S. Constitution and specifically in its first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. Each book in the new six...
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