constitutional law

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constitutional law

The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights

2014
Discusses the U.S. Constitution and specifically the Bill of Rights, including its history, writing, and impact.

The Federalist

2001
A collection of essays which analyze and explore various aspects of the United States Constitution.

Taxation

interpreting the Constitution
2015
An in-depth look at the United States Constitution and how it has been interpreted to apply to taxation. Focuses on legislation in the United States pertaining to taxation, how laws about taxation affect people's lives, and how this legal issue has evolved over time.

The separation of church and state

interpreting the Constitution
2015
An in-depth look at the United States Constitution and how it has been interpreted to apply to religious freedom and the separation between church and state. Focuses on legislation in the United States pertaining to religion, how laws about the practice of religion affect people's lives, and how this legal issue has evolved over time.

American epic

reading the US Constitution
2013
"The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. . Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"--.

The liberty amendments

2013
"The long-awaited new book on how to fix our broken government by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia"--.

Six amendments

how and why we should change the Constitution
A former Supreme Court justice offers six new amendments to the Constitution regarding anti-commandeering, political gerrymandering, campaign finance, sovereign immunity, the death penalty, and gun control.

Civil liberties and American democracy

1984
Presents an in-depth study of the legal concepts of rights. Concludes with a discussion of the relationship between rights and democracy.

La Declaraci?n de Derechos

2006
A brief discussion of the meaning of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

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