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  • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

    Edited by Roger Pilon ...
    To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this digital edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Can the government do that? Check the Constitution! With more than five million copies in print, the Pocket ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • A Constitution of Many Minds

    Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time ... Read more

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  • The Framers' Coup

    The Making of the United States Constitution

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to ... Read more

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  • Ashes and Sparks

    Essays On Law and Justice

    by Stephen Sedley ...
    As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on what has transpired since or an explanation of the British legal and political context that originally ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • More Essential than Ever

    The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century

    by Stephen J. Schulhofer ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course, "papers and effects" are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat ... Read more

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  • The Fragility of Law

    Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

    by David Fraser ...
    The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Heritage Guide to the Constitution

    Fully Revised Second Edition

    Edited by David F. Forte, Matthew Spalding ...
    A landmark work of more than one hundred scholars, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution is a unique line-by-line analysis explaining every clause of America's founding charter and its contemporary meaning.In this fully revised second edition, leading scholars in law, history, and public policy offer more than two hundred updated and incisive essays on every clause of the Constitution.From the ... Read more

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  • The Articles of Confederation

    by Various ...
    The Articles of Confederation were passed by the Continental Congress in 1777, but were not ratified by the states until 1781. This first governing document of America put the new country in good stead, but it had some shortcomings, including the creation of a weak central government. It was replaced by the U.S. Constitution in 1789. ... Read more

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  • The Soul of the First Amendment

    by Floyd Abrams ...
    The nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer"explores the American right to free speech in this thoughtful and concise volume" ( Publishers Weekly).The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution—the First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer ... Read more

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  • Originalism and the Good Constitution

    by John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport ...
    Originalism holds that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at the time it was enacted. In their innovative defense of originalism, John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport maintain that the text of the Constitution should be adhered to by the Supreme Court because it was enacted by supermajorities—both its original enactment under Article VII and subsequent Amendments ... Read more

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  • Americas Last Revival

    by Vincent Diaz ...
    An autobiographical account of a soldiers response to 9/11/2001. ... Read more

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