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Power play
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James P. Pfiffner |
"Analyzes the Bush presidency's efforts to expand executive power, putting them into constitutional and historical perspective. Explores the evolution of Anglo-American thinking about executive power… |
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The Constitution of Australia
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Cheryl Saunders |
From publisher's website: "Consistently with the aims of the series, the book canvasses the Australian constitutional system in a way that explains its form and operation, provides a critical evaluat… |
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How democratic is the American Constitution?
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Robert Alan Dahl |
"In this book, one of our most eminent political scientists poses the question, "Why should we uphold our Constitution?" The vast majority of Americans venerate the American Constitution and the prin… |
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A machine that would go of itself
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Michael G. Kammen |
xvi, 550 p. : 23 cm |
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The Heritage guide to the Constitution
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Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.) |
Analyzes each line of the American federal government's written set of principles and precedents, interpreting the original intent of each clause of the Constitution. |
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What Kind of Nation
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James F. Simon |
"What Kind of Nation is an account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary. The clash bet… |
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From imperial myth to democracy
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Lawrence Ward Beer |
"While English-language studies of Japanese law have enjoyed remarkable growth in the past half-century, scholars have given only scant attention to the broad sweep of Japan's constitutional history.… |
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A more perfect union
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Peters, William |
A narrative with all the drama of good fiction, this book is an accurate, day-by-day account of the pivotal event of American history--the 1787 Convention that drafted the Constitution. Transported t… |
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Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution (John W. Kluge Center Books)
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Jaroslav Jan Pelikan |
In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. |
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