The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought – serie
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Presence of the Past
Essays on the State and the Constitution
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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All constitutions are ultimately about power, Sheldon Wolin writes: about how power is used and by whom, according to what understandings, and to whose advantage. The provisions of our own Constitution regarding slavery—and disregarding women—show that even a liberal constitution does not …
Liberal Democracy and Political Science
Häftad, 1992
424 kr
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Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that …
America's Constitutional Soul
Häftad, 1993
401 kr
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Focusing on the elections of 1980, 1982, and 1984, Mansfield critiques contemporary conservatism for its ignorance of the political theory implicit in the Constitution.
Alternative Tracks
The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917
Av Gerald Berk
Häftad, 1997
403 kr
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"Gerald Berk's Alternative Tracks is a lean but provocative, timely, insightful, and forcefully written challenge to the conventional wisdom about industrial America's political economy". -- Review of Politics At the heart of Alternative Tracks is the historical relationship between democracy. and …
Leo Strauss
An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy
Häftad, 2006
267 kr
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Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence. Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements. This book, …
Originalism in American Law and Politics
A Constitutional History
Häftad, 2007
476 kr
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This book explains how the debate over originalism emerged from the interaction of constitutional theory, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and American political development. Refuting the contention that originalism is a recent concoction of political conservatives like Robert Bork, Johnathan O'Neill …
Constitutional Presidency
Av Joseph M. Bessette, Jeffrey K. Tulis
Inbunden, 2009
695 kr
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Since 1981, when Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis first published The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, the study of the constitutional powers of the presidency has advanced considerably. Bessette and Tulis continue the conversation almost 30 years later, presenting original research …
Constitutional Presidency
Av Joseph M. Bessette, Jeffrey K. Tulis
Häftad, 2009
394 kr
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Since 1981, when Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis first published The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, the study of the constitutional powers of the presidency has advanced considerably. Bessette and Tulis continue the conversation almost 30 years later, presenting original research …
Ennobling of Democracy
The Challenge of the Postmodern Age
Häftad, 1993
254 kr
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With the end of the Cold War, says Thomas L. Pangle, liberal democracy was deprived of its traditional enemy, and forced to re-examine its internal structure and fundamental aims. One result has been the moral-relativist "postmodernism" of mainstream Western intellectuals. Focusing on Lyotard, …
Constituting Federal Sovereignty
The European Union in Comparative Context
Inbunden, 2001
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Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the …
Originalism in American Law and Politics
A Constitutional History
Inbunden, 2005
564 kr
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This book explains how the debate over originalism emerged from the interaction of constitutional theory, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and American political development. Refuting the contention that originalism is a recent concoction of political conservatives like Robert Bork, Johnathan O'Neill …
Leo Strauss
An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy
Inbunden, 2006
489 kr
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Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence. Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements. This book, …
Constitutional Context
Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2007
450 kr
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While the United States was founded on abstract principles of certain "unalienable rights," its legal traditions are based in British common law, a fact long decried by progressive reformers. Common law, the complaint goes, ignores abstract rights principles in favor of tradition, effectively …
Madisonian Constitution
Inbunden, 2008
551 kr
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Today, we think of constitutional questions as being settled by the Supreme Court.But that is not always the case, nor is it what the framers intended in constructing the three-branch federal government. This volume examines four crucial moments in the United States' political history-the Civil War …
From Words to Worlds
Exploring Constitutional Functionality
Av Beau Breslin
Inbunden, 2009
528 kr
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In the 225 years since the United States Constitution was first drafted, no single book has addressed the key questions of what constitutions are designed to do, how they are structured, and why they matter. In From Words to Worlds, constitutional scholar Beau Breslin corrects this glaring …
Constitutional Democracy
Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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Constitutional democracy is a political hybrid, the product of an uneasy union between, on the one hand, the normative theories of constitutionalism and democracy and, on the other, the desire to live under what James Madison called "free government." In this engaging and provocative work, Walter …
Outside the Law
Emergency and Executive Power
Inbunden, 2010
587 kr
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The origins of presidential claims to extraconstitutional powers during national crises are contentious points of debate among constitutional and legal scholars. The Constitution is silent on the matter, yet from Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War to George W. Bush's …
