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Regnery Publishing
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[2014]
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English
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A landmark work of more than one hundred scholars, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution is a unique line-by-line analysis explaining every clause of America's founding charter and its contemporary meaning. In this fully revised second edition, leading scholars in law, history, and public policy offer more than two hundred updated and incisive essays on every clause of the Constitution. From the stirring words of the Preamble to the Twenty-seventh...
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD)
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A "living" constitution. Runaway courts. Legislating from the bench.
These phrases come up a lot in the national political debate. They raise the ire of many Americans.
But where did the ideas come from? Why do courts play a role so alien to the one the American Founders outlined? And how did unelected judges gain so much power in our democratic republic?
Political scientist and legal philosopher Bradley C. S. Watson provides the answers in this...
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¿Por qué fracasó la Convención Constitucional? Pese a las esperanzas, los sueños y las ilusiones, esta institución caótica, a ratos anárquica, se granjeó el rechazo del mismo pueblo que decía representar. Esta indagación se detiene a observar los sucesos ocurridos en un año que condensa, como un tornado, las últimas y turbulentas décadas del país. A partir de las sesiones plenarias, se inquiere en los intersticios del naufragio. El...
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Sotirios A. Barber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of On What the Constitution Means and The Constitution of Judicial Power, and coeditor of Constitutional Politics (Princeton).
Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship...
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A thorough analysis of the early history and development of judicial review, this is one of the most cited and highly regarded texts on law and government. Author Charles A. Beard ranks among the twentieth century's preeminent judicial and constitutional scholars. His enlightening and accessible survey examines the U.S. high court's role in interpreting and enforcing the laws of the country's framing documents. It addresses the controversies surrounding...
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A partir de abril de 2021, una convención constituyente redactará una nueva Constitución para Chile, la que luego será presentada a la ciudadanía para que en un plebiscito se decida su aprobación. Serán muchos los temas a discutir, entre ellos, el régimen de gobierno, la organización política del Estado y, más en general, los contornos del tipo de país que se quiere construir.
Este libro, en un momento crucial de la historia de Chile,...
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The America we love is under siege from the progressive movement. Progressives want to tear down traditional American values and banish our Constitution. Why would they want to do this when Americans have historically enjoyed the most personal opportunity, the most personal freedom, the best standard of living and the best personal safety in the entire world? Traditional American values and governance under the existing Constitution do not allow progressives...
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"Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. ... If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union: but we shall have saved it, as to make, and keep it, forever worthy of the saving." – Abraham Lincoln
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Publisher's Weekly says: "Like an episode of The Daily Show crossed with an issue of Mother Jones, this charming little book from Whitten (co-author of Vitally Important's similarly-pitched Secrets of the SuperOptimist) is a winning mix of humor and good citizenship. Based on Thomas Jefferson's assertion that "the Constitution should be revised every 20 years," Whitten proposes a double-handful of amendments "intended to instigate discussion... and...
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La lecture des Constitutions arabes -de leur lettre comme de leur pratique- par le biais du pluralisme juridique permet de comprendre la nature et la portée des transformations qui sont à l'œuvre dans ces États, tant ceux qui restent essentiellement attachés à des valeurs traditionnelles que les plus avancés dans les processus de démocratisation et de protection des droits fondamentaux.
11) Surgimiento de la dualidad de jurisdicciones en Colombia. Entre la regeneración, la dictadura y l
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Esta obra recoge las principales ideas que fundamentan la consagración de un tribunal administrativo, hace referencia a la historia comparada de las principales constituciones del continente, y analiza las fuentes primarias y más autorizadas sobre el contexto y el desarrollo normativo que dio vida a la dualidad de jurisdicciones en Colombia y su estabilización hasta 1913. Así mismo, el autor presenta algunos datos cuantitativos que demostrarán...
12) Wall of Misconception: Does the Separation of Church and State Mean the Separation of God and Govt
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The "wall of separation between church and state" is a phrase not found anywhere in the Constitution, but activist judges have recklessly used that phrase to stamp out public religious expression. We are restricted from praying in public schools, the Ten Commandments and other religious symbols have been stripped from public buildings, and the term "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has been called "unconstitutional". Dr. Peter Lillback exposes...
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En este libro, el autor analiza lo que considera el principal problema político de México: la contradicción irresoluble entre las reglas de gobierno impuestas después de la Revolución con las modificaciones constitucionales que habilitaron el autoritarismo y el sistema presidencialista, y la apertura obligada por la crisis económica y política de 1995, que llevó al partido hegemónico a pactar una transición democrática hacia un régimen...
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Chile está enfrentado a un proceso constituyente que genera muchas expectativas, pero también muchas inquietudes. El proceso constituyente en 138 preguntas y respuestas es una herramienta de estudio y debate, escrito de la manera más simple y directa, en base a las preguntas más frecuentes que se han generado en los cabildos y asambleas ciudadanas, con el fi n de entregarle instrumentos de discernimiento al único soberano,el pueblo de Chile:...
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The UK's decision to leave the EU has opened up huge existential questions for Northern Ireland as it marks its centenary. Constitutional conflict in Northern Ireland had been regarded as largely resolved and settled, but Brexit has altered the wider constitutional framework within which the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is situated. With the question of Irish unity gaining renewed and sustained traction, and with trade, relationships and politics across...
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Esta obra colectiva es fruto de reflexiones y debates realizados en diciembre de 2020, en la Facultad de Jurisprudencia, entre académicos, profesores, investigadores y funcionarios públicos, con el objetivo de analizar los avances, desafíos y las promesas incumplidas que ha tenido la aplicación de la Constitución Política de 1991, tras treinta años de su expedición.
El libro ha sido organizado bajo tres ejes temáticos principales: pluralismo...
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How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution explores the fundamental shift in political and economic thought of the Progressive Era and how the Supreme Court was used to transform the Constitution into one that reflected the ideas of their own time, while undermining America's founding principles. Epstein examines key decisions to demonstrate how Progressives attacked much of the legal precedent and eventually weakened the Court's thinking concerning...
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With the aim to awaken and prepare secular masses to rise to the occasion so as to save this sovereign democratic socialist republic from being shipped into the clutches of communal forces, the book present the now strengthening communal forces still able to drive a whirlwind across the country and their attacks on various walks of Indian life. New constitutional debates are well discussed for journalists, citizens, scholars, and statesmen.
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The Second Amendment to the Constitution, a protection of the ownership of firearms, has become the source of heated controversy in recent years. Learn about the Founders' views on this important freedom and their solutions for averting the plague of violence that has disrupted communications.
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