Product Description: Written by a fixture on the Tea Party rally circuit, and unofficially adopted by the Party as its US Constitution guide, this book goes to the ultimate source for answers to the hot-button questions about how our nation is meant to be governed...read more

Product Description: Americans have debated the Constitution since the day its was signed, but rarely in its 223-year history have so many disagreed so fiercely about so much. Everywhere there seems to be debate about the Constitution's meaning and message...read more

Product Description: Its word is bond and it is the supreme law of the United States of America. It cannot be changed. It can only be amended, thus altering its effect and allowing for the growth and evolution of the nation and its people. Its writers composed the first constitution of its kind, and created a constitution so compelling and concise that they have influenced later writers of other national constitutions...read more

Product Description: This thought-provoking and interesting text provides a complete examination of each of our nation's 27 Constitutional Amendments. From the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, to slavery, to the voting rights of women, this text illustrates how the US Constitution has changed since its ratification in 1789...read more

Uniquely blending anthropological and exchange theory, Professor Garvey offers a new interpretation of American constitutional development. His thesis: judicial reliance on a limited stock of received forms has inhibited the development of new concepts that could adequately reflect fundamental changes in society. Professor Garvey reviews the history of the Supreme Court in light of the "bricolage" theory. The Court, by interpreting the Constitution to effect laissez-faire and Social Darwinism, helped bring about a society ostensibly patterned on the buyer-seller model, marked by free exchange and "liberty of contract." New departures by the Court in the areas of free speech and criminal justice, according to the author, evidence a recognition of present inequities and a determination to change them; but to the extent the Court remains loyal to a buyer-seller model, it practices an unrealistic jurisprudence. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Argues that the Constitution serves as the focus of a civil religion and discusses the Constitution's components and interpretation

Product Description: Constitutional Government: The American Experience comes twenty-five years after publication of the first edition. Throughout these years, the eight editions of this text have chronicled significant developments in the United State's Constitution political system...read more

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Product Description: An original collection of essays revealing how constitutional issues bubbled under the surface of American politics since the founding of the nation, led to the Civil War, and reverberated for generations after the fighting ceased...read more

Product Description: This book relays the factual details of the creation of the U.S. Constitution. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a serving girl at a Pennsylvania boardinghouse, a law clerk in the state of Virginia, and an apprentice printer...read more

Product Description: The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections...read more

Product Description: George Washington. John Adams. Benjamin Franklin. These great leaders--and many others--made innumerable contributions that laid the groundwork for our nation. But who were they really?In actuality, the founding fathers were a diverse group of men and not the homogenous collection history has shaped them into...read more