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  • Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty

    The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War

    by Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Thinking
    In contemporary constitutional politics, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment—which includes the citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, and equal protection clauses—is the star of the show. But this was not the focus for the Republican members of the Thirty-Ninth Congress. Their interest was instead in Sections 2, 3, and 4. Today we tend to think the purpose of the Fourteenth ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence

    Edited by Mark A. Graber, Michael Zuckert ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence offers a wide-ranging and accessible anthology of essays for understanding the Declaration's intellectual and social context, connection to the American Revolution, and influence in the United States and throughout the world. The volume places the document in the context of ideas during the Enlightenment and examines the language and ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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

    by William G. Merkel, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, H. Richard Uviller ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Complete American Constitutionalism, Volume Five, Part I

    The Constitution of the Confederate States

    by Mark A. Graber, Howard Gillman ...
    Series Book 1 - The Complete American Constitutionalism
    The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience. It provides the analysis, resources, and materials both domestic and foreign readers must understand with regards to the practice of constitutionalism in the United States. This first part to Volume Five of the series covers: The Constitution of ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • The Constitution in Wartime

    Beyond Alarmism and Complacency

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Mark E. Brandon, Eric A. Posner ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Most recent discussion of the United States Constitution and war—both the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq—has been dominated by two diametrically opposed views: the alarmism of those who see many current policies as portending gross restrictions on American civil liberties, and the complacency of those who see these same policies as entirely reasonable accommodations to the new realities of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Year at the Supreme Court

    by Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    The United States Supreme Court’s 2002–03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activist—the Court that helped decide the 2000 presidential election and struck down thirty-one federal statutes since 1995—issued a set of surprising, watershed rulings. In a term filled with important and unpredictable decisions, it upheld ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Congress and the Constitution

    by Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress’s capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate. This intensified judicial scrutiny highlights the need for increased attention to how Congress approaches constitutional issues. In this ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege

    Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History

    by Michael Kent Curtis, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898

    by H. W. Brands, Christina Duffy Burnett, David P. Currie, William W. Freehling, Julian Go, Mark A. Graber, Paul Kens, Gary Lawson, Peter S. Onuf, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Guy Seidman ...
    The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social, political and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Beyond Repair?

    America's Death Penalty

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Samuel R. Gross, Phoebe C. Ellsworth ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Can the death penalty be administered in a just way—without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists explore in Beyond Repair? All new, the essays in this collection focus on the period since 1976, when ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 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

  • From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

    Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Vicki L. Ruiz, Blair L.M. Kelley ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and legal scholars takes the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Brown to reconsider the history and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD