Author: Sanford Levinso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: constitution, correct, people, wrong, undemocratic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-03-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195365577
ISBN-13: 9780195365573

Levinson argues that too many of our Constitution’s provisions promote either unjust or ineffective government. Under the existing blueprint, we can neither rid ourselves of incompetent presidents nor assure continuity of government following catastrophic attacks. Less important, perhaps, but certainly problematic, is the appointment of Supreme Court judges for life. Adding insult to injury, the United States Constitution is the most difficult to amend or update of any constitution currently existing in the world today. Democratic debate leaves few stones unturned, but we tend to take ou

Author: Larry J. Sabato
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: constitution, new, generation, inspire, ideas, revised, perfect
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-07-22
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0802716830
ISBN-13: 9780802716835

The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for politics at the University of Virginia.A More Perfect Constitution presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political minds of our time to reinvigorate our Constitution and American governance at a time when such change is urgently needed, given the growing dysfunction and unfairness of our political system . Combining idealism and pragmatism, and with full respect for the original document, Larry Sabato�s thought-provoking ideas range from the length of the presi

Author: Joseph Goldstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: constitution, something, people, understand, maintain, obligation, supreme, court, intelligible
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1995-08-24
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195093755
ISBN-13: 9780195093759

In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a critical abortion rights case, a bitterly divided Supreme Court produced no less than six different opinions. Writing for the plurality, Chief Justice Rehnquist attacked the trimester framework established in Roe v. Wade because it was "not found in the text of the Constitution or in any place else one would expect to find a constitutional principle." This approach, writes legal authority Joseph Goldstein, confuses constitutional principles (in this case, the right to privacy) with the means to protect them (here, the trimester system). As a re

Author: David Skillen Boge
Publisher: Praeger Publisher
Keywords: united, constitution, reference, states, guides, guide, immunities, privileges
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-04-30
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0313313474
ISBN-13: 9780313313479

The privileges and immunities clauses in the U.S. Constitution forbids one state from discriminating against citizens of another state with respect to privileges and immunities that state affords its own citizens. Bogen details the origins and development of the concept of privileges and immunities, and provides an in-depth analysis of the symbiotic relationship between Article IV and the Fourteenth Amendment, detailing the current understanding of the clauses as reflected in the decisions of the Supreme Court. An extensive bibliographic essay and a table of cases are provided to guide further

Author: John R. Vile
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: amendments, constitution, states, united, companion
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0275989577
ISBN-13: 9780275989576

Designed to help students understand the Constitution in all of its splendor and subtlety, this book introduces key events of the founding era, the Declaration of Independence, and the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention. The Constitution and its amendments are explored section by section, along with pertinent historical events, laws, and cases.Since the Third Edition was published in 2001, we have witnessed another presidential election, a second war with Iraq, significant Supreme Court cases on privacy, the death penalty, affirmative action, searches and seizures, and, perhaps most

Author: Syl Sobel
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: constitution
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0764117076
ISBN-13: 9780764117077

All elementary school students learn about the history of the U.S. Constitution when they first begin social studies. This book is different. It tells boys and girls about the great American document itself--explaining exactly what the Constitution does, as well as how it affects and protects people today. Kids discover how the Constitution provides for the federal government’s three branches--legislative, executive, and judicial. Then they see how it gives all citizens many rights, including the right to vote, to enjoy freedom of speech and the press, to worship--or not worship--accordi

Author: F. A. Hayek
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: liberty, constitution
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 1978-10-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0226320847
ISBN-13: 9780226320847

"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill’s essay, ’On Liberty.’"�Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek"A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary will of others, who puts liberty above welfare and is sanguine that greater welfare will thereby ensue."�Sidney Hook, New York Times Book ReviewIn this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to