Search results for “[subject: constitutions]”

• Author(s): Seth Lipsky • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Constitutions

• Author(s): Akhil Reed Amar • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ConstitutionalDespite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, pri...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | James Madison | John Jay • Publisher: Stonewell Press • Publisher Imprint: Stonewell Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. ...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Brennan | James M. Buchanan | Brennan Geoffrey • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentSocieties function on the basis of rules. Thes...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThe Calculus of Consent, the second volume of Liberty Fund's The Selected Works of Gord...

• Author(s): Robert Alexander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form ...

• Author(s): Richard Brookhiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoricalJames Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story -- although all too often overshadowe...

• Author(s): Paul Finkelman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: ...

• Author(s): Roland Adickes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General In a time when American politics has become a spectator sport often viewed with a cynical eye by ...

• Author(s): Lee H. Hamilton • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: American Government - Legislative BranchWith the benefit of an insider's perspective, distinguished former congressman Lee H...

• Author(s): Colleen A. Sheehan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 17...

• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English and American lawyers appealed to "t...

• Author(s): George Carey • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: ConstitutionalThe Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Writt...

• Author(s): Andrew B. Arnold • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionsThe Constitution is not so simple that it explains itself-nor so complex that only experts can understan...

• Author(s): Adolf Laufs • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Legal HistoryDas Buch wendet sich nicht allein an Studenten mit ausgeprägten historischen Interessen, sondern an die Rechtsstudentinnen und R...

• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ConstitutionalA Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments is designed to show studen...

• Author(s): John Bach McMaster • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788, John Bach McMaster, a professor of Amer...

• Author(s): Merrill D. Peterson • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyIn one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 18...

• Author(s): Joseph M. Lynch • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalNo concept sparks more controversy in constitutional debate than "original intent." Offering a legal historian...

• Author(s): John Bach McMaster • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,In Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788, John Bach McMaster, a p...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: EssaysA series of letters by some of America's Founding Fathers, whose defenses of the Constitution are still relevant today Originally publish...

• Author(s): Judith A. Baer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil ProcedureThe principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does ...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThe Calculus of Consent was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many b...

• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Jurisprudence"Rule of law"--the idea that the law is the nation's sovereign authority--has served as a...

• Author(s): A. V. Dicey • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe Law of the Constitution elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the legislative sov...

• Author(s): Cass R. Sunstein • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: American Government - GeneralNever in history have 1,322 words held out such extraordinary determination to be free a...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentConstitutional political economy is the theme of the papers collected in this volume. This entire area of contem...

• Author(s): Charles C. Thach Jr • Publisher: Amagi • Publisher Imprint: Amagi • BISAC: United States - GeneralFresh from a battle against monarchy, the American Founders were wary of a strong executive, but they were equally conscious that unche...

• Author(s): Judith A. Baer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil ProcedureThe principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does ...

• Author(s): Edward S. Corwin • Publisher: Amagi • Publisher Imprint: Amagi • BISAC: ConstitutionalHaving written extensively on various aspects of the American constitutional order, Edward S. Corwin is considered a leading constitutional scholar...

• Author(s): Jasmine Farrier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalIn an original assessment of all three branches, Jasmine Farrier reveals a new way in which the American feder...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, A...

• Author(s): Vincent Phillip Munoz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ConstitutionsThroughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment's protect...

• Author(s): Eric Voegelin • Publisher: University of Missouri • Publisher Imprint: University of Missouri • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn The Later Middle Ages, the third volume of his monumental History of Political Ideas, Eric Voeg...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...