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Author | : David S. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190699485 |
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The Spirit of the Constitution covers the impact and reputation of both McCulloch and Justice Marshall himself throughout American history. One of the central threads of American history is the battle over the proper reach of the federal government's power, and that story cannot be told without reference to McCulloch. Schwartz's analysis of the shifting interpretations of McCulloch and Marshall over the course of American historynot only reaffirms the case's importance, it also helps us understand the circuitous process by which American constitutional law and ideology are made.
Author | : Sarah Barringer Gordon |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674046542 |
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The author explores the interaction between the Constitution and religious practices in public life. School prayer, religion in prison, and same-sex marriages have created controversies challenging the Supreme Court and the nature of laws regarding religion. The author addresses such issues to trace the relationship between church and state.
Author | : James Allen Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 1989-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521369749 |
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The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750. This lucid translation renders Montesquieu's problematic text newly accessible to a fresh generation of students, helping them to understand quite why Montesquieu was such an important figure in the early enlightenment and why The Spirit of the Laws was, for example, such an influence upon those who framed the American constitution. Fully annotated, this edition focuses attention upon Montesquieu's use of sources and his text as a whole, rather than upon those opening passages towards which critical energies have traditionally been devoted, and a select bibliography and chronology are provided for those coming to Montesquieu's work for the first time.
Author | : Simon J. Gilhooley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108853412 |
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This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates around the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia gave rise to the articulation of this constitutional interpretation, which constrained the radical potential of the constitutional text. To reconstruct the origins of this interpretation, Gilhooley draws on rich sources that include historical newspapers, pamphlets, and congressional debates. Examining free black activism in the North, Abolitionism in the 1830s, and the evolution of pro-slavery thought, this book shows how in navigating the existence of slavery in the District and the fundamental constitutional issue of the enslaved's personhood, Antebellum opponents of abolition came to promote an enduring but constraining constitutional imaginary.
Author | : Milton Lomask |
Publisher | : Fawcett |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780449702628 |
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Discusses the aftermath of the Revolutionary War and the creating of a Constitution for the new country.
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ISBN | : 9780812452365 |
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Author | : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1777 |
Genre | : French literature |
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Author | : Adkins, Mary E |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813052513 |
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Mid-twentieth-century Florida was a state in flux. Changes exemplified by rapidly burgeoning cities and suburbs, the growth of the Kennedy Space Center during the space race, and the impending construction of Walt Disney World overwhelmed the outdated 1885 constitution. A small group of rural legislators known as the "Pork Chop Gang" controlled the state and thwarted several attempts to modernize the constitution. Through court-imposed redistribution of legislators and the hard work of state leaders, however, the executive branch was reorganized and the constitution was modernized. In Making Modern Florida, Mary Adkins goes behind the scenes to examine the history and impact of the 1966-68 revision of the Florida state constitution. With storytelling flair, Adkins uses interviews and detailed analysis of speeches and transcripts to vividly capture the moves, gambits, and backroom moments necessary to create and introduce a new state constitution. This carefully researched account brings to light the constitutional debates and political processes in the growth to maturity of what is now the nation’s third largest state.
Author | : Judith A. Baer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1501722751 |
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The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights. Judith Baer maintains, however, that in fact American judicial decisions have consistently denied individuals the form of equality to which they are legally entitled—that the courts have interpreted constitutional guarantees of equal protection in ways that undermine the original intent of Congress. In Equality under the Constitution, Baer examines the background, scope, and purpose of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment and the history of its interpretation by the courts. She traces the development of the idea of equality, drawing on the Bill of Rights, Congressional records, the Civil War amendments, and other sections of the Constitution. Baer discusses many of the significant equal-protection cases decided by the Supreme Court from the time of the amendment’s ratification, including decisions on reverse discrimination, age discrimination, the rights of the disabled, and gay rights. She concludes with a theory of equality more faithful to the history, language, and spirit of the Constitution.