Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution, Hardcover - Lawrence Lessig

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Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book...

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DescriptionWith the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English comm...

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The left's partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic poli...

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"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is ...

To achieve justice and equal protection under the law, Latinos have turned to the U.S. court system to assert and defend their rights. Some of thes...

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Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Who HQNumber of pages: 112Collection: What Was?Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 192 x 10Cover type: ...

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DescriptionFor more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's his...

Analyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal ju...

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DescriptionIn a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the ...

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