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51 produkter
51 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
557 kr
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A bold and timely proposal for rethinking the role of the Supreme Court in the separation of powers.There is a widespread sense today that the separation-of-powers system is broken or dysfunctional and has become an obstacle to effective government. The Constitution of Conflict demonstrates that much of the problem comes from attempts to find legal answers to political problems. Challenging long-held assumptions about the Constitution, Thomas Rives Bell boldly argues that a separation-of-powers doctrine enforceable by the Court is inconsistent with the constitutional design. Rather than establishing a legal doctrine, the Constitution set into motion a dynamic political system that governs through conflict within and among differentiated institutional structures.Bell shows that Congress and the president have previously found constitutional solutions to issues like the administrative state, only to be thwarted by the Supreme Court. He critiques the Court’s different methodologies for resolving these disputes, demonstrating that, rhetoric aside, both originalist accounts and functionalist understandings seek primarily to enforce the separation of powers for its own sake rather than understanding the political system as the proper means by which to achieve the Constitution’s aspirations. Judicial superintendence of the separation of powers, moreover, places the Court above rather than within the constitutional framework. Bell proposes that the Court’s role in such disputes should be confined to government actions that directly implicate rights rather than to the policing of interbranch boundaries between Congress and the president.Bell applies his proposed political framework to four case studies: the legislative veto, executive agreements, recess appointments, and congressional oversight and impeachment. These cases illuminate the logic and dynamic of the separation of powers, demonstrating that political conflict, rather than legal settlement, is an essential element of the constitutional design.
Häftad, Engelska, 1976
329 kr
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Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell’s most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment.The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked from New York to White Haven, his later migration to the steel mills of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and his eventual downfall through foolish financial speculations and an extramarital affair. The second generation is represented by Kracha’s daughter, Mary, who married Mike Dobrejcak, a steel worker. Their decent lives, made desperate by the inhuman working conditions of the mills, were held together by the warm bonds of their family life, and Mike’s political idealism set an example for the children. Dobie Dobrejcak, the third generation, came of age in the 1920s determined not to be sacrificed to the mills. His involvement in the successful unionization of the steel industry climaxed a half-century struggle to establish economic justice for the workers.Out of This Furnace is a document of ethnic heritage and of a violent and cruel period in our history, but it is also a superb story. The writing is strong and forthright, and the novel builds constantly to its triumphantly human conclusion.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
442 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
338 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
400 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
290 kr
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History of Improved Short-horn or Durham Cattle, and of the Kirklevington Herd, From the Notes of Th
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
412 kr
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History of Improved Short-horn or Durham Cattle, and of the Kirklevington Herd, From the Notes of Th
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
299 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
359 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
207 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
427 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
304 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
441 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
331 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
427 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
386 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
304 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
276 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
375 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
255 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2011
528 kr
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Covering a wide area of the London and Hampshire basins, the London Clay has been famous for over two hundred years as one of the richest Eocene strata in the country. In this work, first published between 1849 and 1858, Fellows of the Royal Society Richard Owen (1804-92) and Thomas Bell (1792-1880) describe their findings from among the reptilian fossils found there. The book is divided into four parts, covering chelonian, crocodilian, lacertilian and ophidian fossils, and includes an extensive section of detailed illustrations. Using his characteristic 'bone to bone' method and an emphasis on taxonomy, Owen draws some significant conclusions; he shows that some of Cuvier's classifications were wrongly extended to marine turtles, and adds to the evidence for an Eocene period much warmer than the present. The work is a fascinating example of pre-Darwinian palaeontology by two scientists later much involved in the evolutionary controversy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
232 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
293 kr
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223 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
282 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
174 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
271 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
174 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
150 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
150 kr
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