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  • The Constitution of Conflict

    How the Supreme Court Undermines the Separation of Powers

    de Thomas Bell ...
    Series series Constitutional Thinking
    A bold and timely proposal for rethinking the role of the Supreme Court in the separation of powers.There is a widespread sense today that the separation-of-powers system is broken or dysfunctional and has become an obstacle to effective government. The Constitution of Conflict demonstrates that much of the problem comes from attempts to find legal answers to political problems. Challenging long ... Leer más

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  • The Originalism Trap

    How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

    A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for understanding why the world sucks right now.”—Elie ... Leer más

    $165 MXN

  • No Democracy Lasts Forever

    How the Constitution Threatens the United States

    A groundbreaking work from one of America’s leading legal scholars, No Democracy Lasts Forever audaciously asserts that the only way a polarized America can avoid secession is to draft a new Constitution.The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws—its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the ... Leer más

    $235 MXN

  • How Democratic Is the American Constitution?

    In this provocative 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 principles it embodies, but many also worry that the United States has fallen behind other nations on crucial democratic issues, including economic equality, racial integration, and women’s ... Leer más

    $245 MXN

  • Active Liberty

    Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

    A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • Understanding American Politics, Second Edition

    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy.The second edition of Understanding American Politics maintains the unique strengths of the first edition while ... Leer más

    $719 MXN

  • Ideas with Consequences

    The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution

    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. ... Leer más

    $392 MXN

  • Weak Courts, Strong Rights

    Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

    de Mark Tushnet ...
    Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the ... Leer más

    $458 MXN

  • The Bakke Case

    Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

    de Howard Ball ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action. Bakke claimed that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, and his case has been considered by many as the most important civil rights decision since the end of ... Leer más

    $371 MXN

  • Understanding American Politics, Third Edition

    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in order to understand the American system, students need to begin by understanding their own democracy. This balanced, comparative ... Leer más

    $694 MXN

  • Framed

    America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

    In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and whether we accept those assumptions 225 years later. In Framed, Levinson ... Leer más

    $619 MXN

  • The Constitution of the United States of America

    A Contextual Analysis

    Series series Constitutional Systems of the World
    This book provides a critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States' Constitution. It is organised around two themes: Firstly, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. These characteristics have made constitutional 'interpretation', especially by the US Supreme Court, the primary mechanism for adapting the Constitution to ever-changing reality. ... Leer más

    $305 MXN