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  • Political Argumentation in Early America

    Informal Fallacies in Selected Debates 1789 to 1800

    by Juhani Rudanko, Paul Rickman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States. The first of these concerns the controversy in the first United States House of Representatives in the summer of 1789 on whether a proposal for a bill of rights should be considered in an expeditious fashion or whether the issue should be left till much later. The ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Manipulative Fallacies in Early America

    Studies on Selected Congressional Debates 1789 to 1799

    by Juhani Rudanko, Paul Rickman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of different informal fallacies is central in the approach adopted by the authors, and they privilege the role of covert intentions as a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

    by Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control in adjectival predicate constructions with ‘scared’, ‘terrified’ and ‘afraid’, moving on to a study of object control with the verbal ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason

    by David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften ...
    The secrets of one of history's greatest orators are revealed in "one of the most stunningly original works on Abraham Lincoln to appear in years" (John Stauffer, professor of English and history, Harvard University).For more than 150 years, historians have speculated about what made Abraham Lincoln truly great. How did Lincoln create his compelling arguments, his convincing oratory, and his ... Read more

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  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • An Introduction to Legal Reasoning

    by Edward H. Levi ...
    An updated edition of the classic text by the former US attorney general and University of Chicago Law School dean.Originally published in 1949, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, "This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the interpretation of statutes and of the ... Read more

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  • Equality under the Constitution

    Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment

    by Judith A. Baer ...
    The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights. Judith Baer maintains, however, that in fact American judicial decisions have consistently denied ... Read more

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  • The Conscience of the Constitution

    The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty

    by Timothy Sandefur ...
    The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence–that has led to the growth of government ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Fate

    Theory of the Constitution

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. ... Read more

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  • Reading Text and Polity: Hermeneutics and Constitutional Theory

    by Simeon C.R. McIntosh ...
    The critical importance of interpretation to the enterprise of constitutional adjudication has been highlighted recently by several cases out of the Commonwealth Caribbean. In Reading Text and Polity, noted law Professor Simeon McIntosh contends that hermeneutics – the art of interpretation – is central to how Caribbean constitutions are read and in turn, is a fundamental political act defining ... Read more

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  • Invisible Sovereign

    Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Mark G. Schmeller ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize ... Read more

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