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Constitutional Competence for Public Managers: A Casebook
by David H. Rosenbloom  Publisher Comments This textbook with cases provides students of public administration with a comprehensive working knowledge of the constitutional reasoning, values, and constraints that currently govern public administration throughout the United States. Organized from a...
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Becoming a Citizen (Oceana's Legal Almanac)
by Margaret C. Jasper Publisher Comments Learn the process of becoming a United States citizen. This comprehensive guide provides important information on the legal requirements, advantages, disadvantages, and restrictions one must understand to begin and complete the naturalization process...
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Free Expression and Censorship in America: An Encyclopedia (New Directions in Information Management)
by Herbert Foerstel Publisher Comments America's interest in free expression has been paralleled by the growth of a powerful system of secrecy and censorship. This encyclopedia documents the major issues and prominent players in the development of the American system of secrecy and censorship....
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Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform
by Clayton E. Cramer Publisher Comments Cramer's work examines the motivations and legislative history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons and establishes a previously unexplored link between these laws and efforts to suppress dueling in the...
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Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History
by Sandra F. Vanburkleo Publisher Comments Taking their cue from the late Paul L. Murphy, one of our nation's leading legal historians, this illustrious group of scholars argues that the field of constitutional history is "too important to be left solely to lawyers and judges." Their "state-of...
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Reference Guides to the United States Constitution, #7: The Supremacy Clause: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution
by Christopher R. Drahozal Publisher Comments This book combines a detailed examination of the history of the Supremacy Clause with a comprehensive consideration of all aspects of Supremacy Clause Doctrine. It explores how the Supremacy Clause makes federal law the "supreme Law of the Land," so that...
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Images of a Free Press
by Lee Bollinger Publisher Comments Rich in historical detail, "Images of a Free Press is an elegant, powerful guide to the evolution of our modern conception of freedom of the press, which finds expression in laws that protect print journalism and regulate broadcast media. Bollinger...
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Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship
by Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff Publisher Comments In a set of cases decided at the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had "plenary power" to regulate immigration, Indian tribes, and newly acquired territories. Not coincidentally, the groups subject to Congress...
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Religious Liberty and State Constitutions
by Edd Doerr Publisher Comments In 1787, the new United States of America formulated a Constitution, which for more than two hundred years has remained the greatest single advance in the long evolution of democracy and freedom. The authors of the Constitution, fearing the religious...
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Dignity and Liberty: Constitutional Visions in Germany and the United States (Issues in Comparative Public Law)
by Edward J. Eberle Publisher Comments Striking a balance between the aspirations of individual freedom and the demands of organized society is a central quest of constitutional law. Germany and America provide different paths toward accomplishment of this equilibrium, revealing two paths to...
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The Politics of the British Constitution (Political Analyses)
by Michael Foley Publisher Comments The British Constitution has recently become a highly contentious source of political critique and reform activity. In spite of the evident increase in constitutional activity, the traditional ethos of a constitution driven by pragmatic and political...
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Minority Protection in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Human Rights, Minority Rights, and Self-Determination (Perspectives on the Twentieth Century)
by Kristin Henrard Publisher Comments Accommodation of population diversity is a vital issue for any multinational society. The legacy of Apartheid in South Africa complicates this effort considerably. Henrard introduces a theoretical framework regarding how to accommodate minority...
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One Hundred Americans Making Constitutional History: A Biographical History
by Melvin I. Urofsky Publisher Comments 100 Americans Making Constitutional History: A Biographical History presents 100 profiles of the key people behind some of the most important U.S. Supreme Court cases. Edited by Melvin I. Urofsky, a respected constitutional historian, each 2,000-word...
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Recapturing the Spirit: Essays on the Bill of Rights at 200
by Eric Neisser Publisher Comments In clear, nontechnical language the author analyzes how contemporary Supreme Court decisions have interpreted the Bill of Rights....
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Speech Stories: How Free Can Speech Be?
by Randall P. Bezanson Publisher Comments When we talk about what "freedom of speech" means in America, the discussion almost always centers on freedom rather than speech. Taking for granted that speech is an unambiguous and stable category, we move to considering how much freedom speech should...
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Transforming Privacy: A Transpersonal Philosophy of Rights (Praeger Series in Transformational Politics & Political Science)
by Stefano Scoglio Publisher Comments Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a...
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The Judiciary, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights
by Steven Foster Publisher Comments Foster Guides the reader through complex current debates on public order, covert and mass surveillance, and prevention of terrorism. It also assesses contemporary developments in American legal policy, including the Patriot Act....
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Bibliographies and Indexes in Law and Political Science, #11: The California State Constitution: A Reference Guide
by Joseph R Grodin Publisher Comments California's Constitution has been one of the most influential state constitutions historically and has been amended and interpreted in many different ways. This definitive and easy-to-use reference by a former justice of California's Supreme Court and...
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Black Sabre Chronicles #30: Utah State Constitution: A Reference Guide
by Jean Bickmore White Publisher Comments The constitution of Utah, born of religious conflict, is explained in detail in this addition to the Greenwood series: "Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States." It represents a comprehensive review of the unique historical...
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Democracy's Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of American Citizenship
by John Denvir Publisher Comments In this provocative reassessment of constitutional intent, John Denvir investigates the "privileges or immunities" of U.S. citizenship and considers how they should be understood in the twenty-first century. He asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment...
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