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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 ...
    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

    $18.99 USD

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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

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  • Men in Black

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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    by Alexander Keyssar ...
    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... Read more

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  • The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics

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    A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it.A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view the confirmation process is just an ... Read more

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  • The American Supreme Court

    by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
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    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Read more

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David J. Bodenhamer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political conflict inevitable. It also has accommodated and legitimized the political and social changes of a ... Read more

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  • Our Republican Constitution

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

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    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

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  • Worse Than Nothing

    The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

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    Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretationOriginalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices explicitly ... Read more

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