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  • Is Administrative Law Unlawful?

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    "Hamburger argues persuasively that America has overlaid its constitutional system with a form of governance that is both alien and dangerous." — Law and Politics Book ReviewWhile the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberal Suppression

    Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which prevent the political use of a tax subsidy. But the cultural and legal realities are ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law and Judicial Duty

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    Philip Hamburger’s Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called “judicial review.” Working from previously unexplored evidence, Hamburger questions the very concept of judicial review. Although decisions holding statutes unconstitutional are these days considered instances of a distinct judicial power of review, Hamburger shows that they were once understood merely as ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Purchasing Submission

    Conditions, Power, and Freedom

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    From a leading constitutional scholar, an important study of a powerful mode of government control: the offer of money and other privileges to secure submission to unconstitutional power.The federal government increasingly regulates by using money and other benefits to induce private parties and states to submit to its conditions. It thereby enjoys a formidable power, which sidesteps a wide range ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Administrative Threat

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    Series Book 3 - Encounter Intelligence
    Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal conduct. Administrative power has thus become pervasively intrusive. But is this power constitutional?A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows that the similarity is not a coincidence. In fact, ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Liberty Amendments

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    Mark R. Levin has made the case, in numerous bestselling books that the principles undergirding our society and governmental system are unraveling. In The Liberty Amendments, he turns to the founding fathers and the constitution itself for guidance in restoring the American republic.The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the delegates to each state’s ratification convention ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    “One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.” — New York Times Book Review“During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.” — William and Mary Quarterly“[A] ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cost of Rights

    Why Liberty Depends on Taxes

    by Stephen Holmes, Cass R. Sunstein ...
    To "fight for your rights," or anyone else's, is not just to debate principles but to haggle over budgets.The simple insight that all legally enforceable rights cost money reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it—and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated. Drawing from these practical, commonsense notions, The Cost of Rights ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Active Liberty

    Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Enlarged Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Constitutional Law For Dummies

    by Patricia Fusco, Glenn Smith ...
    Discover the ins and outs of Constitutional lawAre you a student looking for trusted, plain-English guidance on the ins and outs of Constitutional law? Look no further!Constitutional Law For Dummies provides a detailed study guide tracking to this commonly required law course. It breaks down complicated material and gives you a through outline of the parameters and applications of the U.S. ... Read more

    $18.00 USD