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  • Judges in Contemporary Democracy

    An International Conversation

    Edited by Justice Stephen Breyer, Robert Badinter ...
    Law, politics, and society in the modern West have been marked by the increasing power of the judge: the development of constitutional justice, the evolution of international judiciaries, and judicial systems that extend even further into social life. Judges make decisions that not only enforce the law, but also codify the values of our times.In the summer of 2000, an esteemed group of judges and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • How Democratic Is the American Constitution?

    by Robert A. Dahl ...
    In this provocative book, one of our most eminent political scientists poses the question, Why should we uphold our constitution?” The vast majority of Americans venerate the American Constitution and the principles it embodies, but many also worry that the United States has fallen behind other nations on crucial democratic issues, including economic equality, racial integration, and women’s ... Read more

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  • Understanding American Politics, Second Edition

    by Stephen Brooks, J. Matthew Wilson, Douglas Koopman ...
    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy.The second edition of Understanding American Politics maintains the unique strengths of the first edition while ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Conservatarian Manifesto

    Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right's Future

    by Charles C.W. Cooke ...
    A call to arms for the growing movement of “Conservatarians”—members of the right who are fiscally conservative but socially liberal—and a fascinating look at conservatism’s past and future.There is an underserved movement budding among conservatives, in which fiscal responsibility, constitutional obedience, and controlled government spending remain crucial tenets, but issues like gay marriage and ... Read more

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  • Americans in Waiting

    The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States

    by Hiroshi Motomura ...
    Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially ... Read more

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  • The Constitution of the United States of America

    A Contextual Analysis

    by Professor Mark Tushnet ...
    Series series Constitutional Systems of the World
    This book provides a critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States' Constitution. It is organised around two themes: Firstly, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. These characteristics have made constitutional 'interpretation', especially by the US Supreme Court, the primary mechanism for adapting the Constitution to ever-changing reality. ... Read more

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  • Comparative Constitutional Design

    Edited by Tom Ginsburg ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices concerning executive power, constitutional amendment processes and many other issues. Bringing together positive and normative analysis, this volume ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Bringing Power to Justice?

    The Prospects of the International Criminal Court

    by Joanna Harrington, Michael Milde, Richard Vernon ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
    Contributors include Dapo Akande (Oxford), Antonio Franceschet (Acadia), Tracy Isaacs (Western Ontario), Catherine Lu (McGill), Darryl Robinson (The International Criminal Court), Michael P. Scharf (Case Western Reserve School of Law), Alex Tuckness (Iowa State), and David Wippman (Cornell). ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • At Home in Two Countries

    The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship

    by Peter J Spiro ...
    Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York TimesThe rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts ... Read more

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  • The New Constitutional Order

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many Democrats thought he was betraying the principles of the New Deal and the Great Society. Mark Tushnet argues that Clinton was stating an observed fact: the emergence of a new constitutional order in which ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

    Edited by Michael Ignatieff ...
    With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A Dictionary of Human Rights

    by David Robertson ...
    This reference work reflects the growing international concern over human rights. It provides explanations of the terminology, issues, organizations and laws surrounding this emotive subject. A Dictionary of Human Rights features:* over 200 clear and concise mini-essays* alphabetical arrangement for ease of useThis book is a vital source for anyone interested in or connected with human rights ... Read more

    $370.99 USD