Download or read book American Constitutional Development The powers of government written by Richard S. Randall and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2002 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines constitutional law in a unique, developmental framework that shows how key events through American history have shaped the Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution. Places unique emphasis on the political, economic, social and developmental aspects of the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions. The book examines the great issues and events of government and politics in the early, middle, and modern constitutions, how they have shaped the Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution, and how the distributive consequences of that understanding, in turn, affect American political life. For those who are interested in the American constitution.
Download or read book American Constitutional Development written by Carl Brent Swisher and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Development in the States 1811 1821 written by Pauline Gottsleben Liebig and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Growth of American Politics written by Henry Jones Ford and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1898 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty Property and the Future of Constitutional Development written by Howard Dickman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a discussion of current trends in the constitutional protection of economic liberties. Since the mid-1930's, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to replace legislative judgements on matters of economic regulation with its own. While the Court permits wide legislative experimentation in the economic realm, it scrutinizes governmental attempts to regulate or abridge other civil liberties quite closely. This state of affairs is known as the "double standard." The question of the appropriateness of this unequal treatment by the Court of these two classes of liberties generates much of the controversy in this volume. Other topics dealt with include the current trends in (and relevance of) constitutional law for welfare rights, labor unions, and labor law. Recent Supreme Court decisions on property rights also receive much attention.
Download or read book Foreshadows of the Law written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-11-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supreme Court has final authority in determining what the Constitution means. The Court's findings have not, however, always been final. Lively focuses on several landmark dissenting opinions--resisted initially--later redefining the meaning of the Constitution. Each opinion arises from a rich historical context and involves constitutional issues of pointed significance. Vivid descriptions of some of the colorful personalities behind the opinions add appeal. Lively conveys the evolutionary and dynamic nature of the law demonstrating the relationship between present and past understanding of the Constitution. He describes the competitive nature of constitutional development and identifies the relevance of factors including subjective preference, values, vying theories, and ideologies. The role of the Court, is addressed as are the federal government's relationship to the states and their citizens; slavery; property rights; substantive due process; freedom of speech; and the right to be left alone. This is a clearly presented and highly instructive consideration of how the Constitution's interpretation has been fashioned over time with important insights relevant to today's Court and contemporary cases.
Download or read book Constitutional Construction written by Keith E. Whittington and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the process of constitutional interpretation. But according to Keith Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy. In so doing, it is also dependent on political actors, both to formulate authoritative constitutional requirements and to enforce those fundamental settlements in the future. Whittington characterizes this process, by which constitutional meaning is shaped within politics at the same time that politics is shaped by the Constitution, as one of construction as opposed to interpretation. Whittington goes on to argue that ambiguities in the constitutional text and changes in the political situation push political actors to construct their own constitutional understanding. The construction of constitutional meaning is a necessary part of the political process and a regular part of our nation's history, how a democracy lives with a written constitution. The Constitution both binds and empowers government officials. Whittington develops his argument through intensive analysis of four important cases: the impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson, the nullification crisis, and reforms of presidential-congressional relations during the Nixon presidency.
Download or read book Constructing Civil Liberties written by Ken I. Kersch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.
Download or read book Equal Justice Under Law written by Harold Melvin Hyman and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Constitution written by Alfred Hinsey Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selected readings": pages 862-885.
Download or read book Pennsylvania Constitutional Development written by Rosalind L. Branning and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pennsylvania Constitutional Development has proven to be the definitive study of the history of Pennsylvania's constitution in its first four incarnations. Rosalind Branning's critique, first published in 1960, reflects the movement that led to the constitution of 1968. After tracing the history of the 1776 constitution and its earliest revisions--in 1790 and 1838--Branning primarily focuses on the constitutional convention of 1872-73 and the resulting document of 1874, which endured for almost a century. She uses the published Debates, newspaper files, and the observations of contemporary writers and statesmen to provide a detailed and engaging study of the politics and leadership of the time. Her analysis demonstrates that this constitutional convention produced an instrument that was designed to meet nineteenth-century needs but would need significant revisions by future generations. Foreseeing the very issues that would be addressed in the 1967-68 constitutional convention, Branning identifies the elements that are necessary for successful constitutional lawmaking. The evolution of Pennsylvania's body of laws serves as a cogent example of the opportunities and foibles intrinsic to the process of defining effective governance of a state. Pennsylvania Constitutional Development remains an essential resource for students and historians, and should be read by anyone interested in the government of the Keystone State.
Download or read book Peripheries and Center written by Jack P. Greene and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Constitutional Development written by D. Grier Stephenson and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Development in a Modernizing Society written by William M. Wiecek and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rot and Revival written by Anthony Michael Kreis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements. Drawing on rich historical research and political science methodologies, Kreis convincingly demonstrates that the courts have never been—and cannot be—institutions lying outside the currents of national politics.
Download or read book Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States 1776 1860 written by Fletcher Melvin Green and published by New York : W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1966 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Constitutional Development written by Richard S. Randall and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Cases and text combine to provide a look at how individual rights have been doctrinally shaped by the Supreme Court through interpretation of constitutional and statutory law. * Analyzes how America's ideological commitment to rights is transformed by the Supreme Court into law and legal doctrine and then into enforceable rules in specific cases. * Places unique emphasis on the political, economic, social and developmental aspects of the Supreme Court's civil liberties decisions. * Includes an abundance of cases, more than 100 in all.
