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  • The Most Powerful Court in the World

    A History of the Supreme Court of the United States

    by Stuart Banner ...
    An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution. Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most bitterly contested issues in the United States today. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Decline of Natural Law

    How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped

    by Stuart Banner ...
    An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their arguments and judges often relied upon it in their opinions. Today, by contrast, natural law plays ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Death Penalty

    An American History

    by Stuart Banner ...
    The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person’s life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes often obscures its long and varied history in this country.Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • How the Indians Lost Their Land

    Law and Power on the Frontier

    by Stuart Banner ...
    Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land?Stuart Banner ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Speculation

    A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

    by Stuart Banner ...
    What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including the Great Depression and the 2008 global financial crisis. In Speculation, Stuart Banner provides a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Baseball Trust

    A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption

    by Stuart Banner ...
    The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it-that baseball is exempt. In The Baseball Trust, legal historian Stuart Banner illuminates the series of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Speculation

    A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

    by Stuart Banner ...
    What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including the Great Depression and the 2008 global financial crisis. In Speculation, Stuart Banner provides a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Most Powerful Court in the World

    A History of the Supreme Court of the United States

    by Stuart Banner ...
    Narrated by Graham Winton ...

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    25 hours 31 min

    Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most bitterly contested issues in the United States today. We answer these questions, and many more, by presenting them to nine lawyers—the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. No other nation commits so many important questions to its ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by David Barton ...
    This book is very timely for one of the most frequently debated issues in America: the separation of church and state. Where did this phrase originate? Was it always meant to prohibit expressions of religious faith in public settings as many claim today? Learn the answers to these questions and discover the Founding Fathers own words and intents in this book! With all these resources, you will be ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Backlash

    Women and Politics in the Early American Republic

    by Rosemarie Zagarri ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book ... 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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  • Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

    by Nancy Isenberg ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women’s rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas — before and after 1848 — that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women’s rights activists of the antebellum ... Read more

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