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  • Constitutional Deliberation in Congress

    The Impact of Judicial Review in a Separated System

    by J. Mitchell Pickerill, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of them, Pickerill argues that judicial review—or the possibility of it—encourages Congressional attention ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Utopia (Hero Classics)

    by Thomas More ...
    Part of the Hero Classics seriesUtopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveller’s account to a fictional land, Thomas More created an ingenious treatise which envisioned a more humanist approach to ... Read more

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  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    A cornerstone of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy.On Liberty is one of Mill’s most famous works and remains the one most read today. In this book, Mill expounds his concept of individual freedom within the context of his ideas on history and the state. On Liberty depends on the idea that society progresses from lower to higher stages and that this progress culminates ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Oath

    The Obama White House and The Supreme Court

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

    The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History

    by Keith E. Whittington ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not simply seized power and circumvented politics. The justices have had power thrust upon them--by politicians, for the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Wounded Leaders

    British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion: A Psychohistory

    by Nick Duffell ...
    Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world. In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Life Without Law: An introduction to anarchist politics

    by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness ...
    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.—Emma Goldman, 1931An anarchist is someone who rejects the domination of one person or class of people over another. Anarch ism is a very broad umbrella term for a group of political philosophies that are based on the idea that we can live as ... Read more

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  • Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies

    Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society

    Edited by Moira B. MacKinnon, Ludovico Feoli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    Legislatures, the judiciary and civil society are important actors in representative democracies. In what ways and how well do they represent? And how effectively do they carry out their institutional and social roles? Both questions refer to the key dimensions of democracy analyzed in this book: representativeness and effectiveness, respectively. While they have been developed separately in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Democratic Decline in Hungary

    Law and Society in an Illiberal Democracy

    by András L. Pap ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This book shows the rise and morphology of a self-identified `illiberal democracy’, the first 21st century illiberal political regime arising in the European Union. Since 2010, Viktor Orbán’s governments in Hungary have convincingly offered an anti-modernist and anti-cosmopolitan/anti-European Unionist rhetoric, discourse and constitutional identity to challenge neo-liberal democracy. The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy

    Edited by Christopher P. Banks ...
    Series series Controversies in American Constitutional Law
    This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional jurisprudence. The contributors address the impact ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate

    Reconsidering the Charade

    by Dion Farganis, Justin Wedeking ...
    Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955—an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—Dion Farganis and Justin Wedeking discover that ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables

    by B.R.Ambedkar ...
    The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables ? by B.R.AmbedkarThis book is a sequel to my treatise called The Shudras—Who they were and How they came to be the Fourth Varna of the Indo-Aryan Society which was published in 1946. Besides the Shudras, the Hindu Civilisation has produced three social classes whose existence has not received the attention it deserves. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD