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The Indispensable Right

Free Speech in an Age of Rage

by Jonathan Turley ...

Narrated by Jonathan Turley ...

Unabridged

14 hours 56 min

A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment ... Read more

$29.99 USD

A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment
... Read more
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We the People

A History of the U.S. Constitution

by Jill Lepore ...

Narrated by Jill Lepore ...

Unabridged

24 hours 2 min

From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People**, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.**The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in dec... ... Read more

$34.99 USD

From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People**, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.**The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in dec...
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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

The complete texts of the documents that tell the story of the clashes and compromises that gave birth to the Unites States of America.Should the members of the government be elected by direct vote of the people?Should the government be headed by a single executive, and how powerful should that executive be? Should immigrants be allowed into the United States?How should judges be appointed?What ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The complete texts of the documents that tell the story of the clashes and compromises that gave birth to the Unites States of America.Should the members of the government be elected by direct vote of the people?Should the government be headed by a single executive, and how powerful should that executive be? Should immigrants be allowed into the United States?How should judges be appointed?What
... Read more
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The Originalism Trap

How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

by Madiba K. Dennie ...

Narrated by Madiba K. Dennie ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for understanding why the world sucks right now.”—Elie ... Read more

$20.99 USD

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for understanding why the world sucks right now.”—Elie
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Charles Sumner

Conscience of a Nation

by Zaakir Tameez ...

Narrated by David Lee Garver ...

Unabridged

26 hours 20 min

Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an adviser to Abraham Lincoln ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an adviser to Abraham Lincoln
... Read more
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The Federal Courts

An Essential History

by Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N.E.H Hull ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

22 hours 50 min

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story ... Read more

$24.99 USD

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story
... Read more
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

by Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

21 hours 44 min

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political
... Read more
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Roadmap to Understanding the United States Constitution, A

Your United States Constitutional Rights

by Sebastian Burroughs Windsor Esq ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...

Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This course is about your United States Constitutional Rights, as provided by Constitutional doctrines that have developed over the past 250+ years. In the United States, we are a democracy governed by a constitution that establishes citizens' rights against the potential for governmental overreach. The key to Democracy is sunlight and more people ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This course is about your United States Constitutional Rights, as provided by Constitutional doctrines that have developed over the past 250+ years. In the United States, we are a democracy governed by a constitution that establishes citizens' rights against the potential for governmental overreach. The key to Democracy is sunlight and more people
... Read more
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Policing the Second Amendment

Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race

by Jennifer Carlson ...

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

The United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. How does this perspective shape what is considered lawful force? Who can engage in violence and who is punished for ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. How does this perspective shape what is considered lawful force? Who can engage in violence and who is punished for
... Read more
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Reading the Constitution

Why I Chose Pragmatism, not Textualism

by Stephen Breyer ...

Narrated by Stephen Breyer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

New York Times BestsellerIn a provocative and brilliant analysis, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a more pragmatic approach of the Constitution.“You will not read a more important legal work this election year.” —Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New ... Read more

$26.99 USD

New York Times BestsellerIn a provocative and brilliant analysis, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a more pragmatic approach of the Constitution.“You will not read a more important legal work this election year.” —Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New
... Read more
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Supreme Court, The

Power, Politics, and Law

by Newbury Publishing ...

Narrated by Jim D. Johnson ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Supreme Court
Unabridged

1 hour 28 min

As the highest court in what has become the world's most powerful nation, The Supreme Court of the United States sits at the faultline between the ideal and the real, between justice and power, between the serene majesty of The Law and the sometimes bombastic, sometimes grubby disputes that define our politics.In the arguments before the court, principles clash with ambition and avarice, and it ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

As the highest court in what has become the world's most powerful nation, The Supreme Court of the United States sits at the faultline between the ideal and the real, between justice and power, between the serene majesty of The Law and the sometimes bombastic, sometimes grubby disputes that define our politics.In the arguments before the court, principles clash with ambition and avarice, and it
... Read more
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American Freedom Handbook, The

Exploring and Exercising Your Rights

by Bill Vincent ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...

Unabridged

8 hours 26 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The American Freedom Handbook: Exploring and Exercising Your Rights is an essential guide to understanding, preserving, and actively engaging with the fundamental freedoms granted to American citizens. This comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through the most crucial amendments in the U.S. Constitution, from the First Amendment's protection ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The American Freedom Handbook: Exploring and Exercising Your Rights is an essential guide to understanding, preserving, and actively engaging with the fundamental freedoms granted to American citizens. This comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through the most crucial amendments in the U.S. Constitution, from the First Amendment's protection
... Read more
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Going Further

The Incomparable Clarence Thomas

by Ted Cruz ...

Unabridged

9 hours

From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional lawFor over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme Court’s history. His insistence that the ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional lawFor over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme Court’s history. His insistence that the
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A Liberdade de Expressão e a Justiça Brasileira

tolerância, discurso de ódio e democracia (Voz Sintética)

by Vitor Amaral Medrado ...

Narrated by Voz Sintética ...

Abridged

5 hours 32 min

Narrado por voz sintética. Fruto de tese de doutorado defendida no início de 2018, a 1 edição desta obra pretendeu aliar, de um lado, uma profunda reconstrução dos fundamentos históricos, filosóficos e jurídicos da liberdade de expressão e, de outro, a análise das principais decisões brasileiras sobre o assunto. De lá para cá, todavia, sobrevieram vários casos jurídicos dignos de nota, cujas ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Narrado por voz sintética. Fruto de tese de doutorado defendida no início de 2018, a 1 edição desta obra pretendeu aliar, de um lado, uma profunda reconstrução dos fundamentos históricos, filosóficos e jurídicos da liberdade de expressão e, de outro, a análise das principais decisões brasileiras sobre o assunto. De lá para cá, todavia, sobrevieram vários casos jurídicos dignos de nota, cujas
... Read more
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Closing the Courthouse Door

How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

by Erwin Chemerinsky ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The ... Read more

$16.99 USD

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The
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Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos

by Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos ...

Narrated by Sergio Bustos ...

Unabridged

23 hours 28 min

Tras la Revolución, la Constitución Mexicana de 1917 nace para garantizar derechos sociales, educación y soberanía; un pueblo lucha por establecer un gobierno justo y una ley suprema frente a la tiranía y la desigualdad, forjando el destino de México con artículos clave como el 3°, 27° y 123°. La Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1917 fue forjada en el crisol de la ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Tras la Revolución, la Constitución Mexicana de 1917 nace para garantizar derechos sociales, educación y soberanía; un pueblo lucha por establecer un gobierno justo y una ley suprema frente a la tiranía y la desigualdad, forjando el destino de México con artículos clave como el 3°, 27° y 123°. La Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1917 fue forjada en el crisol de la
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When Freedom Speaks

The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right

by Lynn Greenky ...

Narrated by Lisa S. Ware ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

This book makes first amendment issues immediate and contemporary.When Freedom Speaks chronicles the stories behind our First Amendment right to speak our minds. Lynn Levine Greenky's background as a lawyer, rhetorician, and teacher gives her a unique perspective on the protection we have from laws that abridge our right to the freedom of speech. Rhetoricians focus on language and how it ... Read more

$19.99 USD

This book makes first amendment issues immediate and contemporary.When Freedom Speaks chronicles the stories behind our First Amendment right to speak our minds. Lynn Levine Greenky's background as a lawyer, rhetorician, and teacher gives her a unique perspective on the protection we have from laws that abridge our right to the freedom of speech. Rhetoricians focus on language and how it
... Read more
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Roadmap to Understanding the United States Constitution, A

Your United States Constitutional Rights

by Sebastian Burroughs Windsor Esq ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...

Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This course is about your United States Constitutional Rights, as provided by Constitutional doctrines that have developed over the past 250+ years. In the United States, we are a democracy governed by a constitution that establishes citizens' rights against the potential for governmental overreach. The key to Democracy is sunlight and more people ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This course is about your United States Constitutional Rights, as provided by Constitutional doctrines that have developed over the past 250+ years. In the United States, we are a democracy governed by a constitution that establishes citizens' rights against the potential for governmental overreach. The key to Democracy is sunlight and more people
... Read more
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The Constitution in Jeopardy

An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It

by Russ Feingold, Peter Prindiville ...

Narrated by Russ Feingold, Peter Prindiville, Jim Seybert ...

Unabridged

8 hours 55 min

A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward.Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism—the nation's first ever—has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward.Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism—the nation's first ever—has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited
... Read more
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Agreeing to Disagree

How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience

by Michael W. McConnell, Nathan S. Chapman ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

6 hours 12 min

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", may be the most contentious and misunderstood provision of the entire United States Constitution. What exactly is an "establishment of religion"? And what is a law "respecting" it?Many commentators reduce the clause to "the separation of church and state." This implies that church ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", may be the most contentious and misunderstood provision of the entire United States Constitution. What exactly is an "establishment of religion"? And what is a law "respecting" it?Many commentators reduce the clause to "the separation of church and state." This implies that church
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Dollars for Life

The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment

by Mary Ziegler ...

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

9 hours 42 min

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party"A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue." —Kirkus ReviewsThe modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party"A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue." —Kirkus ReviewsThe modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness
... Read more
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Supreme Inequality

The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

by Adam Cohen ...

Narrated by Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

14 hours 16 min

**“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, SlateA revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the ... Read more

$22.99 USD

**“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, SlateA revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the
... Read more
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Practical Equality

Forging Justice in a Divided Nation

by Robert Tsai ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all—ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech—have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all—ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech—have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and
... Read more
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The Fight for Free Speech

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

by Ian Rosenberg ...

Narrated by Chloe Cannon ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of
... Read more

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