Product Description: This undergaduate text uses original essays, cases, and materials to study the very enterprise by which a constitution is interpreted and a constitutional government created. It explores the American polity as both a constitutional and democratic entity...read more

Product Description: Constitutional democracy is a political hybrid, the product of an uneasy union between, on the one hand, the normative theories of constitutionalism and democracy and, on the other, the desire to live under what James Madison called "free government...read more

This classic reader has been a best selling component of the Judicial Process/Judicial Politics/American Legal System course for years. The sixth edition has been thoroughly updated while retaining the features that made it attractive for so long: its effective structure, thorough coverage, narrative voice, choice of excerpts, and teaching flexibility.

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: Elements of Judicial Strategy (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

From the Mount of Olives to the road to Rome, this dramatic saga, based on the life of St. Peter, offers a passionate and provocative profile of the man whom Jesus chose to found his church

From the Mount of Olives to the road to Rome, this dramatic saga, based on the life of St. Peter, offers a passionate and provocative profile of the man whom Jesus chose to found his church

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

Near the end of World War II, an American agent is sent to Rome on a bogus mission to keep the Germans from realizing that the British had broken their secret Enigma code

Over-burdened with remorse for sacrificed loved ones in war and peace, Declan Walsh, retires from the Supreme Court to a Trappist monastery, and from there he is called to the papacy