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  • Equal Protection

    Documents Decoded

    by David L. Hudson Jr. ...
    Series series Documents Decoded
    This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of American citizenship, including the rights of citizens. The most commonly used—and frequently litigated—phrase in the amendment is "equal ... Read more

    S$ 94.17 SGD

  • Freedom of Speech

    Documents Decoded

    by David L. Hudson Jr. ...
    Series series Documents Decoded
    Detailed yet highly readable, this book explores essential and illuminating primary source documents that provide insights into the history, development, and current conceptions of the First Amendment to the Constitution.The freedom to speak one's mind is a subject of great importance to most Americans but especially to students, minorities, and those who are socially or economically disadvantaged ... Read more

    S$ 104.41 SGD

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  • The American Supreme Court

    by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Read more

    S$ 28.00 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Administrative Threat

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    Series Book 3 - Encounter Intelligence
    Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal conduct. Administrative power has thus become pervasively intrusive. But is this power constitutional?A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows that the similarity is not a coincidence. In fact, ... Read more

    S$ 7.51 SGD

  • Our Republican Constitution

    Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People

    by Randy E. Barnett ...
    A concise history of the long struggle between two fundamentally opposing constitutional traditions, from one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars—a manifesto for renewing our constitutional republic.The Constitution of the United States begins with the words: “We the People.” But from the earliest days of the American republic, there have been two competing notions of “the People,” ... Read more

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • The Living Constitution

    by David A. Strauss ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence ... Read more

    S$ 20.92 SGD

  • Supreme Court Decisions

    Edited by Richard Beeman ...
    Series series Penguin Civic Classics
    A selection of the landmark Supreme Court decisions that have shaped American societyPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life, including the founding ... Read more

    S$ 10.24 SGD

  • Worse Than Nothing

    The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretationOriginalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices explicitly ... Read more

    S$ 27.78 SGD

  • The Tyranny of Tolerance

    A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault

    by Robert H. Dierker Jr. ...
    For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept judges from speaking out to present a withering account of how radical liberals run roughshod over the ... Read more

    S$ 10.24 SGD

  • Corrupted by Power

    The Supreme Court and the Constitution

    by Robert E. Riggs ...
    Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the "least dangerous" branch of government. He was right then but wrong today. Since Hamilton's time the Supreme Court has become a cardinal example of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is not a corruption of bribes, or even of bad intentions, but of taking upon itself the right to alter the ... Read more

    S$ 9.80 SGD

  • Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

    Text and Tradition

    by Ralph A. Rossum ...
    Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is widely regarded as the most controversial member of the Court.This book is the first comprehensive, reasoned, and sympathetic analysis of how Scalia has decided cases during his entire twenty-year Supreme Court tenure. Ralph ... Read more

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  • Terms of Engagement

    How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government

    by Clark M. Neily III ...
    The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America’s judges have largely abdicated that responsibility. All too often, instead of judging the constitutionality of government action, courts simply ... Read more

    S$ 17.97 SGD