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Fire Bell in the Past
The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume II: "The Missouri Question" and Its Answers
Av Jeffrey L. Pasley, John Craig Hammond
Inbunden, 2021
403 kr
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Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis …
Bureaucracy in America
The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government
Häftad, 2023
264 kr
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The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by …
Pushback
The Political Fallout of Unpopular Supreme Court Decisions
Av Dave Bridge
Inbunden, 2024
392 kr
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The Supreme Court has usually operated in majoritarian fashion but not always, and when it hasn’t done so, the consequences of its decisions have had an extremely important impact on the Court, political parties, party formation, and politics in general.In writing Pushback, an interdisciplinary …
John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence Volume 1
The Hidden Origins of Modern Law
Häftad, 2024
220 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal WritersAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways to …
Dangerous Spirit of Liberty
The Politics of Slaves and Rebels in Early America and the West Indies, 1688-1748
Inbunden, 2025
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Justin Pope’s ground-breaking work tells the story of an era of slave unrest that swept through the Atlantic World in the first half of the eighteenth century. Provinces along the eastern coast of North America and around the Caribbean Sea experienced more insurrections and conspiracy trials in the …
History of American Legislatures, 1619-2024
Inbunden, 2026
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What might the members of the first Virginia assembly think if they could visit today’s Virginia House of Delegates? The air-conditioning and diversity of the current membership surely would surprise them, but would the legislative process itself strike them as odd? In his latest work, Peverill …
Disestablishment and Religious Dissent
Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833
Av Carl H. Esbeck, Jonathan J. Den Hartog
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a Resolution which set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written …
From Oligarchy to Republicanism
The Great Task of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2026
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On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the …
Myth of Coequal Branches
Restoring the Constitution’s Separation of Functions
Häftad, 2026
238 kr
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The idea that the three branches of U.S. government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how adherence to this …
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
Av James W. Endersby, William T. Horner
Inbunden, 2016
322 kr
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80 years ago, Lloyd Gaines’s application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university’s deci- sion. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the rst in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race, …
Myth of Coequal Branches
Restoring the Constitution’s Separation of Functions
Inbunden, 2018
392 kr
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The idea that the three branches of U.S. government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how adherence to this …
Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era
An Intellectual History
Häftad, 2020
221 kr
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Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume, Carli Conklin considers the pursuit of …
Contesting the Constitution
Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819-1821
Inbunden, 2021
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The admission of Missouri to the Union quickly became a constitutional crisis of the first order, inciting an intensive reexamination of the U.S. Constitution by the U.S. Congress. The heart of the question in need of resolution was whether that body possessed the authority to place conditions on a …
Fire Bell in the Past
The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I, Western Slavery, National Impasse
Av Jeffrey L. Pasley, John Craig Hammond
Inbunden, 2021
403 kr
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Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, A Fire-Bell in the Past: Re-assessing the Missouri Crisis at 200, held at the University of Missouri …
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
Av James W. Endersby, William T. Horner
Häftad, 2021
245 kr
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Winner, 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book AwardIn 1936, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university's decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line of …
Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society
Av Justin Buckley Dyer, Constantine Christos Vassiliou
Inbunden, 2023
392 kr
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The liberal arts university has been in decline since well before the virtualization of campus life, increasingly inviting public skepticism about its viability as an institution of personal, civic, and professional growth. The current generation of technologies that mediate our formal and informal …
Federalist Frontier
Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783-1840
Häftad, 2023
236 kr
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The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory—Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—from the nation’s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s. Relying on government …
Reforming Legislatures
American Voters and State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020
Inbunden, 2024
392 kr
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Legislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in even the most unlikely of places, notably in sparsely populated frontier settlements, and functioned as the focal point of …
Panic of 1819
The First Great Depression
Häftad, 2024
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The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the …
