Описание: At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A. J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then proposes his own view: together the amendments e
Автор: Rubin Leslie G. Название: America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class ISBN: 1481300547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781481300544 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6896.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Aristotle's political imagination capitalizes on the virtues of a middle-class republic. America's experiment in republican liberty bears striking similarities to Aristotle's best political regime--especially at the point of the middling class and its public role. Author Leslie Rubin, by holding America up to the mirror of Aristotle, explores these correspondences and their many implications for contemporary political life. Rubin begins with the Politics, in which Aristotle asserts the best political regime maintains stability by balancing oligarchic and democratic tendencies, and by treating free and relatively equal people as capable of a good life within a law-governed community that practices modest virtues. The second part of the book focuses upon America, showing how its founding opinion leaders prioritized the virtues of the middle in myriad ways. Rubin uncovers a surprising range of evidence, from moderate property holding by a large majority of the populace to citizen experience of both ruling and being ruled. She singles out the importance of the respect for the middle-class virtues of industriousness, sobriety, frugality, honesty, public spirit, and reasonable compromise. Rubin also highlights the educational institutions that foster the middle class--public education affords literacy, numeracy, and job skills, while civic education provides the history and principles of the nation as well as the rights and duties of all its citizens. Wise voices from the past, both of ancient Greece and postcolonial America, commend the middle class. The erosion of a middle class and the descent of political debate into polarized hysteria threaten a democratic republic. If the rule of the people is not to fall into demagoguery, then the body politic must remind itself of the requirements--both political and personal--of free, stable, and fair political life.
Автор: Charles O. Oyaya, Nana K. Poku Название: The Making of the Constitution of Kenya ISBN: 1472474562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472474568 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Making of the Constitution of Kenya examines the processes, issues and challenges of constitution making and governance in Kenya and the lessons that can be learned for others on the continent. It gives an invaluable insight into the normative and political complexities involved in evolving a truly democratic constitutional order in Africa.
Автор: Clark T. Название: The Supreme Court ISBN: 1108436935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108436939 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and uses a statistical model of law to bring together humanistic and social-scientific perspectives on legal history.
Have you ever wanted to read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and really understand what they're saying?
Learn how they impact your life; your rights and freedoms? How the branches of government were formed, and why?
You're not alone. Millions of Americans want a deeper understanding of their country's founding principles and don't know where to start. When the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were written by our founders over two centuries ago, they were designed to endure. And indeed they've remained, as Paul Skousen writes, "the most amazing freedom formula ever invented"--but navigating eighteenth-century legal language can be challenging.
Recognizing this problem, Skousen provides an easy, step-by-step guide that will forever change the way you think about your country and your freedoms.Using visual tools, exercises, and several valuable memory aids, this book will help you:
Master the Constitution's seven articles and the twenty-seven important rights named in the Bill of Rights.
Navigate the Declaration's five power statements on freedom and unlock their eighteenth-century phrases with a convenient glossary.
Discover how the Constitution's guiding principles protect human rights.
And so much more.
Thousands of books describe the origins of these famous documents, but only How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence gives you a path to truly understanding them.
Автор: David A. Hopkins Название: Red Fighting Blue ISBN: 1316642143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316642146 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explains how and why the American electoral map has become deeply and persistently divided into red states and blue states and explores the important consequences of this trend for candidate strategy, party competition, political polarization, and the functioning of American government.
Автор: Fallon R. Название: The Nature of Constitutional Rights ISBN: 1108703917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108703918 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explains what it means to have a constitutional right - which is often less than people think. It examines how, and why, rights can be outweighed by `compelling governmental interests`. Using historical examples, the book illuminates the nature of the judicial role in protecting genuinely meaningful rights.
Автор: Victor Ferreres Comella Название: The Constitution of Spain: A Contextual Analysis ISBN: 1849460167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849460163 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a critical introduction to the principles and institutions that make up the Spanish Constitution, which was enacted in 1978.
Автор: Beaumont, Elizabeth Название: The Civic Constitution ISBN: 0190692553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190692551 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Civic Constitution provides a compelling case for rethinking the U.S. Constitution and its relations to citizens and social movements. By exploring pivotal struggles over governmental power, individual rights, and the boundaries of citizenship, this book challenges reigning approaches and reveals the profound importance of `civic founders` who worked to reinvent the constitutional order.
Автор: Jean-Bernard Auby Название: Globalisation, Law and the State ISBN: 1509930191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509930197 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Globalisation, Law and the State begins - as is customary in globalisation literature - with an acknowledgement of the definitional difficulties associated with globalisation. Rather than labour the point, the book identifies some economic, political and cultural dimensions to the phenomenon and uses these to analyse existing and emerging challenges to State-centric and territorial models of law and governance.
It surveys three areas that are typically associated with globalisation - financial markets, the internet, and public contracts - as well as trade more generally, the environment, human rights, and national governance. On this basis it considers how global legal norms are formed, how they enmesh with the norms of other legal orders, and how they create pressure for legal harmonisation. This, in turn, leads to an analysis of the corresponding challenges that globalisation presents to traditional notions of sovereignty and the models of public law that have grown from them.
While some of the themes addressed here will be familiar to students of the European process (there are prominent references to the European experience throughout the book), Globalisation, Law and the State provides a clear insight into how the sovereign space of States and their legal orders are diminishing and being replaced by an altogether more fluid system of intersecting orders and norms. This is followed by an analysis of the theory and practice of the globalisation of law, and a suggestion that the workings of law in the global era can best be conceived of in terms of networks that link together a range of actors that exist above, below and within the State, as well as on either side of the public-private divide. This book is an immensely valuable, innovative and concise study of globalisation and its effect on law and the state.
Описание: Provides a demonstration of how social reformers and politicians have used the amendment process to achieve favourable political results even as their proposed amendments have failed to be adopted. Roger Hartley examines familiar examples like pro-life attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, but also takes the reader on a three-century tour of lesser-known amendments.
Описание: How much power does a president really have? Theories and arguments abound—pointlessly, Bruce Miroff says, if we don't understand the context in which presidents operate. Borrowing from Machiavelli, Miroff maps five fields of political struggle that presidents must traverse to make any headway: media, powerful economic interests, political coalitions, the high-risk politics of domestic policy, and the partisan politics of foreign policy.The prince readying for war, Machiavelli writes, must “learn the nature of the terrain, and know how mountains slope, how valleys open, how plains lie, and understand the nature of rivers and swamps.” So it is with presidents navigating the political landscape. The variability of political ground, and of the conflicts fought on it, is a core proposition of this study. The swift collapse of the Soviet Union, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008—recent history offers a quick lesson in fortune’s role in the careers of presidents. Taking a historical perspective, which opens on an array of cases, Miroff explores the various ways in which a president's agenda is constrained or facilitated by political conditions on the ground. His book reveals how political identity is constructed and contested in the media through the ever-changing presidential spectacle; what happens when Democrats in the White House tangle with the titans of the economy; why presidents claiming to represent the entire nation have to manage political coalitions that direct rewards to their own followers; why domestic policy has become ""tough terrain"" for presidents; and how partisan polarization has reshaped presidential leadership in foreign policy, an area once considered “beyond politics.”Providing a new perspective on why and how presidents succeed or fail in each of these areas, this book is an indispensable resource for understanding the forces that shape presidencies and the power of a president to fight on such fraught terrain.
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