Product Description: Americans err in thinking that while their politics may be ailing, their Constitution is fine. Sick politics is a sure sign of constitutional failure. This is Sotirios Barber’s message in Constitutional Failure. Public attitudes fostered by a consumer culture, constitution worship, the lack of a trusted leadership community, and academic historicism and value skepticism—these, this book tells us in clear and bracing terms, are at the root of our political dysfunction...read more

Product Description: The idea that “states’ rights” restrain national power is riding high in American judicial and popular opinion. Here, Sotirios A. Barber shows how arguments for states’ rights, from the days of John C. Calhoun to the present, have offended common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles...read more

Product Description: American Constitutional Interpretation is a study of the American polity, the very enterprise by which a constitution is interpreted and a constitutional government created. Organized around three basic interrogatives: What is the constitution that is to be interpreted? Who are its authoritative interpreters? How do they go about their interpretive tasks?...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to have a constitution? Scholars and students associated with Walter Murphy at Princeton University have long asked this question in their exploration of constitutional politics and judicial behavior. These scholars, concerned with the making, maintenance, and deliberate change of the Constitution, have made unique and significant contributions to our understanding of American constitutional law by going against the norm of court-centered and litigation-minded research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The United States Supreme Court," writes Sotirios A. Barber, "is being strangled by the combined forces of skillful enemies and incompetent friends, forces united in their inability either to grasp or tolerate constitutional law as an independent moral voice on American politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the aspirations of the Constitution of the United States and analyzes the function of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land

Product Description: The author, a foremost constitutional scholar, determines that certain aspects of a constitution cannot be malleable and discusses how an assessment is made as to which provisions are so, and which are not.