Skyhorse, 2013. — 152 р. A comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to the Bill of Rights for everyday Americans from a constitutional law expert and a US politician. Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn't know about the First Amendment's freedom of religion or Second Amendment's...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 396 p. Although an inchoate liberty theory of freedom of speech has deep roots in Supreme Court decisions and political history, it has been overshadowed in judicial decisions and scholarly commentary by the marketplace of ideas theory. In this book, Baker critiques the assumptions required by the marketplace of ideas theory and develops the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 418 p. — ISBN: 0521877636. The United States faces the realistic and indefinite threat of catastrophic terrorist attack. Whether the United States is successful in preventing a nuclear, biological, or other security catastrophe depends on how effectively we wield the instruments of national security. It will also depend on how effectively we...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. — 480 p. Originalism and living constitutionalism, so often understood to be diametrically opposing views of our nation’s founding document, are not in conflict—they are compatible. So argues Jack Balkin, one of the leading constitutional scholars of our time, in this long-awaited book. Step by step, Balkin gracefully outlines a...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 341 p. What does it mean to have a constitution? Scholars and students associated with Walter Murphy at Princeton University have long asked this question in their exploration of constitutional politics and judicial behavior. These scholars, concerned with the making, maintenance, and deliberate change of the Constitution, have made unique...
Springer, 2023. — 211 p. Societal Stress and Law draws attention to the social side effects of law by developing the sociological concept of society-level stress, a corollary of the concept of individual-level stress in the biological sciences. To encourage interest in societal stress, the book looks at (1) instances of law adopted by American states that the U.S. Supreme Court...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 159 p. A thorough analysis of the early history and development of judicial review, this is one of the most cited and highly regarded texts on law and government. Author Charles A. Beard ranks among the twentieth century's preeminent judicial and constitutional scholars. His enlightening and accessible survey examines the U.S. high court's role in...
Studies in Governance and Public Management — Baltimore; the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-0801883194. Combining insights from traditional thought and practice and from contemporary political analysis, Madison's Managers presents a constitutional theory of public administration in the United States. The authors contend that managerial...
Basil Blackwell, 1991. — 259 p. Constitutional interpretation is an issue which has come under considerable scrutiny in the USA, in the light of such happenings as the nomination of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, and the Iran-Contra affair. This book is intended as an overview of the debate on constitutional interpretation, and employs historical, textual, doctrinal,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 225 p. Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the...
Skyhorse, 2012. — 255 р. No matter who you identify with—Democrat or Republican, Tea Party or Green Party, Independent or something else altogether— we the people should read: The Constitution of the United States of America The Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments The Declaration of Independence The Articles of Confederation. Take a moment or two to reflect on the words of...
Stanford University Press, 2021. — 224 р. "The earth belongs...to the living, the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." These famous words, written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, reflect Jefferson's lifelong belief that each generation ought to write its own Constitution. According to Jefferson each generation should take an active role in endorsing, renouncing,...
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Harvard University Press, 2019. — 280 p. In this groundbreaking analysis of Supreme Court decision-making, Andrew Coan explains how judicial caseload shapes the course of American constitutional law and the role of the Court in American society. Compared with the vast machinery surrounding Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is a tiny institution that can resolve only...
SUNY Press, 2010. — 159 p. Analysis of concurrent opinion writing by U.S. Supreme Court justices. When justices write or join a concurring opinion, they demonstrate their preferences over substantive legal rules. Concurrences provide a way for justices to express their views about the law, to engage in a dialogue of law with each other, the legal community, the public, and...
Hot Books, 2018. — 160 p. The Case Against Impeaching Trump seeks to reorient the debate over impeachment to the same standard that Dershowitz has continued to uphold for decades: the law of the United States of America, as established by the Constitution. In the author’s own words: “In the fervor to impeach President Trump, his political enemies have ignored the text of the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 270 p. Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law presents an accessible introduction to the enduring topics of American constitutional law, including judicial review, methods of interpretation, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection, and individual liberties. One of the most important functions performed by the American...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2010. — 304 p. The debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution has much to tell us about American politics. Using predictions made by Federalists and Anti-Federalists during that debate, Faber examines contemporary American politics. The Federalists explained how the various branches of government would work together to govern while...
LearningExpress, LLC, 2011. - 178 pages.
This book presents students with the history behind the ratification and drafting of U.S. Constitution, laying the groundwork material that is likely to appear on standardized tests including the AP U.S. History exam. Twenty easy-to-digest lessons cover each amendment in depth, discuss the history behind the amendments, define key...
2nd Edition. — Wiley, 2022. — 400 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-76688-9. Become a U.S. immigration wiz with this hands-on and practical guide to U.S. citizenship In U.S. Citizenship For Dummies, expert citizenship and ESL instructor Jennifer Gagliardi walks you through the ins and outs of the complicated process of obtaining citizenship in the United States. From preparing for test day...
Longman Publishing, 1991. — 192 p. Going beyond the standard interpretation of Supreme Court opinions, this practical text delves into the legal reasoning behind the written opinions - the modes of persuasion and justification used by Supreme Court justices - to give readers a deeper understanding of how to read and interpret the decisions of our highest court. An indispensable...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 319 p. Located at the intersection of law, political science, philosophy, and literary theory, this work of constitutional theory explores the nature of American constitutional interpretation through a reconsideration of the long-standing debate between the interpretive theories of originalism and nonoriginalism. It traces that debate to a...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 280 p. Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values and did not...
State University of New York Press, 2006. - 150 p.
Constitutional reform requires not only good ideas but also the ability to translate those ideas into language that will effectuate the drafters’ aims. This book—the second of three volumes on state constitutions—is the essential guide for those involved in constitutional reform. It identifies the recurrent problems that...
Visible Ink Press, 2022. — 384 p. The United States Constitution is a short document, and it is written in general language, which leaves much of the meaning unwritten and open to interpretation. Dig into this important document and watershed in the history of governments! Explore the history, the various clauses, amendments, and interpretations. Understand your rights (and...
Aspen Publishers, 2015. — 255 p. This new coursebook introduces students to the relationship among the American constitutional, governmental, and legal systems. With a clear and concise presentation, this book explores historical and contemporary events, judicial opinions, and constitutional provisions that demonstrate how the three systems accommodate social progress in an...
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1948. — 940 p. In this book we have attempted to present the reader with a general picture of the growth and development of the American constitutional system. It is an introductory work, in the sense that it presupposes no extensive technical knowledge of constitutional law or political theory on the part of prospective readers. The intellectual...
The New Press, 2021. — 496 p. The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven...
University of South Carolina Press, 1997. — 230 p. William P. Kreml contends that the sectoral divide - the division between the public and private sectors and not the divisions among America's political institutions are traditionally understood - makes up the historically and ideologically most significant separation within American law. He offers an original reinterpretation...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 336 p. Richard Labunski offers a dramatic account of a time when the entire American experiment hung in the balance, only to be saved by the most unlikely of heroes, the diminutive and exceedingly shy James Madison. Here is a vividly written account of not one, but several major political struggles that changed the course of American history....
Routledge, 2016. — 264 p. This book argues that the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, should embrace an interpretive framework that promotes equal participation in the democratic process, fosters accountability, and facilitates robust public discourse among citizens of all backgrounds. The authors propose a solution that strives to restore integrity to the Court’s...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 230 p. The Constitution as Treaty transforms the conceptualization of U.S. constitutional law by exploring the interpretive implications of viewing the U.S. Constitution as a treaty. It argues that federal courts constitute an international tribunal system, and, as such, their jurisdiction is governed by international law enabling them to...
Pearson, 2011. — 752 p. Updated in its 16th edition, American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases is a classic collection of carefully selected and edited Supreme Court case excerpts and comprehensive background essays that explores constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and...
The New Press, 2022. — 240 p. The New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds “After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer...” —Michael Harriot, The Root Allow Me to...
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014. — 256 p. Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution influences nearly every aspect of our lives. But for all the fierce disputes about what the Constitution means, the historical foundations of America’s legal and political institutions pass almost unnoticed today. This is a glaring oversight, one that clouds...
Oxford University Press, 2006. - 186 p. Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens--many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. In Not a Suicide Pact, Judge Richard A. Posner...
Routledge, 2021. — 630 p. American Constitutional Law, provides a comprehensive account of the nation's defining document, examining how its provisions were originally understood by those who drafted and ratified it, and how they have since been interpreted by the Supreme Court, Congress, the President, lower federal courts, and state judiciaries. Clear and accessible chapter...
Izzard Ink Publishing, 2017. — 288 р. Have you ever wanted to read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and really understand what they're saying? Learn how they impact your life; your rights and freedoms? How the branches of government were formed, and why? You're not alone. Millions of Americans want a deeper understanding of their country's founding...
4th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2007. — 656 p. American Constitutional Law, Volumes I and II, combines cases, decisions, and authorial commentary to maximize your learning and understanding in this course. These comprehensive volumes cover the entire range of topics in constitutional law. Each of the chapters includes an extended essay providing the legal, historical,...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 208 p. From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted. The U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today―about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 192 p. A unique defense of Federalism, making the case that constitutional law in America—encompassing the systems of all 51 governments—should have a role in assessing the right balance of power among all branches of our state and federal governments. Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power...
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. — 670 p. — ISBN: 0-06-128225-1 Tugwell's model Constitution evokes Brave New World images: it provides Overseers, a National Regulator, a National Watchkeeper, a Public Custodian, and an Intendant for Emergency Organization. Planning and regulation are given top priority, the power of the president is enhanced, citizens are assigned...
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. — 670 p. — ISBN: 0-06-128225-1 Tugwell's model Constitution evokes Brave New World images: it provides Overseers, a National Regulator, a National Watchkeeper, a Public Custodian, and an Intendant for Emergency Organization. Planning and regulation are given top priority, the power of the president is enhanced, citizens are assigned...
ABC-CLIO, 2015. — 330 p. A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments is designed to show students just how revolutionary the Constitution was-and how relevant it remains today. It begins by revisiting the key events leading to the Constitution's ratification, including the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the proceedings of the Constitutional...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 287 p. Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that...
SUNY Press, 2015. — 221 p. While there is a vast amount of scholarship on the US Constitution, very little of it addresses Article IV. The article's first section, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, requires that individual states must respect the public acts, accords, and judicial proceedings of every other state, and the second section, the Privileges and Immunity Clause,...
М.: Юриспруденция, 2001. — 160 с. В книге рассматриваются общие вопросы теории, законодательства и практики американского конституционализма, а также наиболее крупные блоки конституционно-правового регулирования в США: основы правового статуса человека, политической системы, гражданского общества, высших органов государственной власти и федерализма.
Біографічна енциклопедія; за наук. ред. Н.М. Хоми. — Львів: Новий Світ-2000, 2018. — 369 с. Досліджується еволюція інституту глави держави у США від часу його появи. Хронологічно представлені постаті американських президентів з акцентом на їх основних успіхах і невдачах за час перебування на посаді. Водночас глави американської держави представлені й як особистості: їх...
М.: Издательство ИМО, 1959. — 242 с. Предисловие. Принятие и основные положения Конституции США. Понятие конституции в американской буржуазной литературе. Принятие и ратификация Конституции. Структура, основные положения и принципы Конституции. Пути изменения Конституции США. Изменение Конституции путем принятия к ней поправок. Законы Конгресса, акты Президента, дополняющие и...
Без выходных данных, 19 с. Подготовлено Верховным судом США и опубликовано при содействии Общества истории Верховного суда.
Оглавление:
Верховный суд и толкование Конституции
Верховный суд как учреждение
Верховный суд и его традиции
Верховный суд и его порядок работы
Рабочая нагрузка членов Верховного суда
Члены Верховного суда
Здание Верховного суда
Экскурсия по зданию...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2011. — 163 с.
В XXI веке Президент и Конгресс США, вынужденные делить властные полномочия, по-прежнему остаются соперниками в борьбе за власть. Ультиматум и дедлайн стали основными инструментами политического торга между институтами власти. Конфликтность представляет на сегодняшний день доминирующую характеристику их взаимоотношений.
В данной книге ставится...
Посібник для всіх. — пер. з англ. О. М. Мокровольського. — К.: Веселка, 1993. — 192 с. У цьому науково-популярному виданні Девід П. Каррі, викладач права Чикагського університету, розповідає про те, як створювалась Конституція США, які й коли були прийняті поправки до неї та як вона використовується в юридичній практиці країни. У книжці подано також сам текст Конституції —...
Монография. - М.: Статут, 2011. - 351 с. Представленная книга – итог многолетних исследований, с которыми читатели знакомы по таким книгам автора, как "Конгресс США" (М., 1990), "США: конституционный строй и роль штатов в структуре американского федерализма" (М., 1993), "США: Конституция и законодательные акты" (М., 1993), "Основы конституционного строя США" (М., 1998), "Правовое...
Научное издание. — М.: Ин-т законодательства и сравн. правоведения, 2007. — 320 с.
Представленная книга — итог многолетних исследований, с которыми читатели знакомы по таким книгам автора, как "Конгресс США" (М., 1990); "США: конституционный строй и роль штатов в структуре американского федерализма" (М., 1993); "США: конституция и законодательные акты" (М., 1993); "Основы...
М., Издательство НОРМА. 1998. — 272 с
В книге дается подробный анализ становления и развития конституционного строя США, рассматриваются различные аспекты взаимодействия Конституции США и конституций штатов, многие другие вопросы американского конституционализма
Для юристов, специалистов в области международного права, студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей юридических вузов и...
Нью-Йорк: Українська Вільна Академія Наук, 1956 - 93 с.
Книга видана Українською Вільною Академією Наук у Нью-Йорку і Науковим Товариством ім. Шевченка, за матеріальної допомоги Східньо-Европейського Фонду.
Ця книжка подає перший повний український переклад Декларації незалежності США, Конституції США з 22 доповненнями та Геттісбурзької промови президента Лінкольна -...
Монография. - М.: РГУП, 2017. - 334 с. В настоящем издании рассматриваются теоретические и практические проблемы становления и развития американского федерализма, государственности и судебной власти, представлены историко-правовые этапы конституционно-правовой трансформации колоний в штаты в контексте повышения значения американского федерализма и судебной власти в формировании...
Монография. - М.: Дашков и К°, 2012. - 131 с. В настоящем издании исследуются историко-правовые особенности становления конституционализма в штатах в процессе формирования федеративного государства в США. Рассматриваются идеи конституционализма во вновь образованных колониях, а затем штатах, основные принципы американского конституционализма, эволюция формы и содержания...
М.: Юридическая литература, 1988. — 320 с. Книга посвящена комплексному критическому анализу основных направлений эволюции конституционно-правовых доктрин США. Разоблачается концепция о якобы надклассовом характере американской Конституции. Показывается, как в конкретно-исторических ситуациях положения Конституции США используются для защиты классовых интересов буржуазии,...
М.: Юридическая литература, 1988. – 320 с. Книга посвящена комплексному критическому анализу основных направлений эволюции конституционно-правовых доктрин США. Разоблачается концепция о якобы надклассовом характере американской Конституции. Показывается, как в конкретно-исторических ситуациях положения Конституции США используются для защиты классовых интересов буржуазии,...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Международное право, 1978. — 99 с. В октябре 1977 года Коммунистическая партия США опубликовала книгу «Положение в области прав человека в США». В ней приводятся данные о грубом вмешательстве США во внутренние дела других стран, об опасной для дела мира гонке вооружений, проводимой американским военно-промышленным комплексом. Всевластие миллионеров...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Международное право, 1978. — 99 с. В октябре 1977 года Коммунистическая партия США опубликовала книгу «Положение в области прав человека в США». В ней приводятся данные о грубом вмешательстве США во внутренние дела других стран, об опасной для дела мира гонке вооружений, проводимой американским военно-промышленным комплексом. Всевластие миллионеров...
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION
1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lobbying Disclosure Act of
1995’’.
М.: Международные отношения, 1980. — 98 с. (Библиотечка междугородника) В книге рассматриваются основные элементы механизма выборов президента США, а также методы и источники их финансирования. На основе фактического материала автор вскрывает подлинные рычаги контроля за ходом президентских выборов и показывает, как правящие круги США используют избирательную систему для...
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1980. — 173 с. Монография является одной из работ по теме "Важнейшие отрасли права США", разрабатываемой сектором правового регулирования Института США и Канады АН СССР. В работе рассматривается процесс формирования судебной системы, её структура, разграничение юрисдикции между судебной властью федерации и штатов, вопросы назначения и избрания судей а...
Самиздат, 2013. - 54 стр.
В данной книге автор подробно объясняет нюансы по получению политического убежища. А именно: как правильно изложить историю, какие доказательства необходимо приложить, как вести себя на интервью, какие психологические приемы используют сотрудники иммиграционной службы во время интервью, какие вопросы они задают наиболее часто. Наконец, автор опубликует...
Монография. — М.: Юридическая литература, 1982. — 224 с. В монографии с использованием многочисленной зарубежной, прежде всего американской, литературы и документов всесторонне исследуется деятельность Верховного суда США почти за двухсотлетний период. Автор показывает классовую пристрастность, политическую тенденциозность высшего судебного учреждения США, всей американской...
Минск, 2003 год. 192 с.
Оглавление.
американская конституция / American constitution.
английское политическое наследие.
Декларация Независимости.
Статьи Конфедерации.
Конституционное Собрание.
Основные принципы конституционной системы.
Принцип ограниченной государственной власти.
Принцип разделения властей и система сдержек и противовесов.
Федерализм.
Конституционный...
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