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: "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

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.