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Author: David J. Shestokas Publisher: Constitutionally Speaking Publications ISBN: 9780996928113 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Constitutional Sound Bites makes America's Founding Documents and First Principles accessible and relevant to all by sharing brief explanations of key provisions and moments in the documents' creation. In a era when the emphasis on our Nation's founding is in decline in our children's classrooms, and where attention spans are measurably decreasing with each passing year, Constitutional Sound Bites addresses both realities with meaningful and manageable content.If John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were trying to reach modern America, they would need to change their methods and accommodate the way we communicate today. We've become used to getting information in the small doses of media sound bites, short blog posts and 140 character Twitter feeds. We are inundated with "information" in these ways, and with the best of luck, when something of value shoots across our personal radar, we reach out, grab it and investigate more. The entries in this book are "sound bites" about the United States Constitution. It is the English companion to the Spanish language Capsulas Informativas Constitucionales.
Author: David J. Shestokas Publisher: Constitutionally Speaking Publications ISBN: 9780996928113 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Constitutional Sound Bites makes America's Founding Documents and First Principles accessible and relevant to all by sharing brief explanations of key provisions and moments in the documents' creation. In a era when the emphasis on our Nation's founding is in decline in our children's classrooms, and where attention spans are measurably decreasing with each passing year, Constitutional Sound Bites addresses both realities with meaningful and manageable content.If John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were trying to reach modern America, they would need to change their methods and accommodate the way we communicate today. We've become used to getting information in the small doses of media sound bites, short blog posts and 140 character Twitter feeds. We are inundated with "information" in these ways, and with the best of luck, when something of value shoots across our personal radar, we reach out, grab it and investigate more. The entries in this book are "sound bites" about the United States Constitution. It is the English companion to the Spanish language Capsulas Informativas Constitucionales.
Author: David J. Shestokas Publisher: ISBN: 9780996928106 Category : Spanish language materials Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
Cápsulas Informativas Constitucionales es una publicación nueva y pionera para la comunidad hispanohablante estadounidense. David Shestokas, abogado, en colaboración con la Dra. Berta Arias, profesora emérita en lenguas, por primera vez contextualiza para los lectores en español ambos el significado y los antecedentes históricos de la Declaración de Independencia, la Constitución y la Carta de Derechos.
Author: David J. Shestokas Publisher: Constitutionally Speaking Publications ISBN: 9780996928120 Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 154
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With Creating the Declaration of Independence DAVID SHESTOKAS takes you into the minds of Richard Henry Lee, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the weeks before July 4, 1776. Experience Lee's trepidation as he knows when he proposes American Independence to the Second Continental Congress that he is literally risking beheading. Join Adams and Jefferson at City Tavern as they begin crafting the Declaration and follow the story of how Jefferson came to reluctantly draft the Declaration when few others, including Adams thought that Jefferson's assignment was important. You'll even learn a shortcut Jefferson used to craft a document of such immortality on such short notice and how that short cut affects the work of the Supreme Court today.
Author: Jack M. Balkin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199731091 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 368
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The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds--Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark Tushnet, Yochai Benkler and Richard Ford, among others--the book tackles a wide range of issues, including the challenge of new technologies, presidential power, international human rights, religious liberty, freedom of speech, voting, reproductive rights, and economic rights. The Constitution in 2020 calls on liberals to articulate their constitutional vision in a way that can command the confidence of ordinary Americans.
Author: András Sajó Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198732171 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 500
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Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising to complacent democrats, more and more people find autocracy attractive, because they were never forced to understand or imagine what despotism is. Generations who have lived in stable democracies with the promise that their enviable world will become the global 'normal' find government rule without constitutionalism difficult to conceive. It is difficult, but never too late, to see one's own constitutional system as something that is fragile, or up for grabs and in need of constant attention and care. In this book, Andras Sajo and Renata Uitz explore how constitutionalism protects us and how it might be undone by its own means. Sajo and Uitz's intellectual history of the constitutional ideal is rich in contextual detail and informed by case studies that give an overview of both the theory and practice of constitutionalism worldwide. Classic constitutions are contrasted with twentieth-century and contemporary endeavours, and experimentations in checks and balances. Their endeavour is neither apologetic (and certainly not celebratory), nor purely defensive: this book demonstrates why constitutionalism should continue to matter. Between the rise of populist, anti-constitutional sentiment and the normalization of the apparatus of counter-terrorism, it is imperative that the political communities who seek to sustain democracy as freedom understand the importance of constitutionalism. This book is essential reading for students of law and general readers without prior knowledge of the field, as well as those in politics who believe they know how government works. It shows what is at stake in the debate on constitutionalism.
Author: Brian Christopher Jones Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788971108 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy investigates the increasingly important subject of constitutional idolatry and its effects on democracy. Focussed around whether the UK should draft a single written constitution, it suggests that constitutions have been drastically and persistently over-sold throughout the years, and that their wider importance and effects are not nearly as significant as constitutional advocates maintain. Chapters analyse whether written constitutions can educate the citizenry, invigorate voter turnout, or deliver ‘We the People’ sovereignty.
Author: Bruce Ackerman Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674970683 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 473
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Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.
Author: Mark Tushnet Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393077519 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 385
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"An incisive consideration of the Supremes, offering erudite yet accessible clues to legal thinking on the most important level."--Kirkus Reviews In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging in the balance. Many have assumed that the chasm on the Court has been between its liberals and its conservatives. In reality, the division was between those in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party and those who, though considered to be in the Court's center, represent an older Republican tradition. As a result, the Court has modestly promoted the agenda of today's economic conservatives, but has regularly defeated the agenda of social issues conservatives; while paving the way for more radically conservative path in the future.
Author: David J. Shestokas
Author: David J. Shestokas
Author: David J. Shestokas
Author: David J. Shestokas
Author: Jack M. Balkin
Author: András Sajó
Author: Brian Christopher Jones
Author: Jeffrey Scheuer
Author: Bruce Ackerman
Author: Mark Tushnet
Author: Walter F. Murphy