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  • Living Legislation

    Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking

    Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political ... Read more

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  • Recalibrating Reform

    The Limits of Political Change

    by Stuart Chinn ...
    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    Some of the most important eras of reform in US history reveal a troubling pattern: often reform is compromised after the initial legislative and judicial victories have been achieved. Thus Jim Crow racial exclusions followed Reconstruction; employer prerogatives resurged after the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935; and after the civil rights reforms of the mid-twentieth century, principles of ... Read more

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Read more

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  • The Republic

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    The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were ... Read more

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  • PUBLIC OPINION

    The book "Public Opinion" is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially of the irrational and often self-serving social perceptions that influence individual behavior and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The detailed descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their socio-political and cultural environments leading them to apply an evolving ... Read more

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  • Killer Politics

    How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class

    by Ed Schultz ...
    The middle class, where the greatness of this nation is rooted, is under siege by an increasingly unethical system, managed by economic vampires who are sucking the lifeblood out of the American family and ripping the heart out of democracy itself. Big money-and the politicians who are swayed by it-play both parties against each other, using this false battle to distract most of us from the real ... Read more

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  • The Constitution Today

    Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era

    In this “desperately needed” (Time.com) book, a leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the twenty-first century and illuminates the Constitution's ongoing relevanceIn The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America’s preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the twenty-first century—from gun control ... Read more

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    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

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  • Rescuing a Broken America

    Why America is Deeply Divided and How to Heal it Constitutionally

    A plan for restoring and protecting freedom, based on the United States Constitution.There has been a deliberate effort over the past one hundred years to change the worldview of Americans from a liberty and constitutionally focused world view, based on the writings of Englishman John Locke, to that of government control of the individual based on the writings of Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau. ... Read more

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  • Citizens Divided

    Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution

    Series Book 8 - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
    The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert C. Post offers a new ... Read more

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  • Life Without Law: An introduction to anarchist politics

    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.—Emma Goldman, 1931An anarchist is someone who rejects the domination of one person or class of people over another. Anarch ism is a very broad umbrella term for a group of political philosophies that are based on the idea that we can live as ... Read more

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