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Constitutional Law for Dummies

by John Wiley & Patricia Fusco

Discover the ins and outs of Constitutional law

Are you a student looking for trusted, plain-English guidance on the ins and outs of Constitutional law? Look no further!

Constitutional Law For Dummies provides...

American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

by Donald P. Kommers

American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles and policies...

The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process

by Christopher L. Eisgruber

The Supreme Court appointments process is broken, and the timing couldn't be worse--for liberals or conservatives. The Court is just one more solid conservative justice away from an ideological sea change--a...

American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

by Donald P. Kommers

American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles and policies...

Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

by Andrew Napolitano

What new crisis will the federal government manufacture in order to acquire more power over individuals? What new lies will it tell?

Throughout our history, the federal government has lied to send our children...

The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions

by Jay Wexler

If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews,...

Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force

by James Boyd White

Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed....

That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

by Christopher Wolfe

The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights?...

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court

by Craig Smith

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice...

The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

by Gerard N. Magliocca

Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard N. Magliocca...

Religion and the Constitution: Volume I: Free Exercise and Fairness

by Kent Greenawalt

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others....