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"According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to discriminate against gay people who like cake. They're wrong when they tell you the Second Amendment protects the right to own a private arsenal. They're wrong when they say the death penalty isn't cruel or unusual punishment, and they're wrong when they tell you we have no legal remedies for the scourge...
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LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"This review set offers 102 questions that test your knowledge of history concepts related to Amendments 1-15 to the United States Constitution. Review your score report to help target your strengths and weaknesses for further study." --
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"This review set offers 89 questions that test your knowledge of history concepts related to the United States Constitution. When you complete this review, use the score report to help target your strengths and weaknesses for further study." --
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LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"This review set offers 76 questions that test your knowledge of history concepts related to the United States Constitution. When you complete this review, use the score report to help target your strengths and weaknesses for further study." --
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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The Words We Live By takes an entertaining and informative look at America's most important historical document, now with discussions on new rulings on hot button issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action.
In The Words We Live By, Linda Monk probes the idea that the Constitution may seem to offer cut-and-dried answers to questions regarding personal rights, but the interpretations of this hallowed document are...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions-some enlightened, many oppressive-to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Originalism, 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 embrace the originalist approach, as do increasing numbers of judges in the lower courts. Noted legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gives a comprehensive analysis...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book like none other. SIX AMENDMENTS is an absolutely unprecedented call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the Constitution should be amended...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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The primary purpose of the United States Constitution is to limit Congress. There is no separation of church and state. The Second Amendment allows citizens to threaten the government. These are just a few of the myths about our constitution peddled by the Far Right-a toxic coalition of Fox News talking heads, radio hosts, angry "patriot" groups, and power-hungry Tea Party politicians. Well-funded, loud, and unscrupulous, they are trying to do to...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Whatever your party affiliation or politics, your beliefs need to start with an understanding of the Constitution, the 1789 document on which our government is based. Why are there three branches of government? What is executive privilege? What is meant by the Bill of Rights? This insightful guide answers these important questions and many others. It couldn't be more necessary and relevant in these complicated times. Includes the complete text of...
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