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Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Seattle Ferry Terminal Expansion and Traffic Revisions
Author: The Bill of Rights
Author: Akhil Reed AmarPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127081
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar brilliantly illuminates in rich detail not simply the text, structure, and history of individual clauses of the 1789 Bill, but their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. Amar's corrective does not end there, however, for as his powerful narrative proves, a later generation of antislavery activists profoundly changed the meaning of the Bill in the Reconstruction era. With the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans underwent a new birth of freedom that transformed the old Bill of Rights. We have as a result a complex historical document originally designed to protect the people against self-interested government and revised by the Fourteenth Amendment to guard minority against majority. In our continuing battles over freedom of religion and expression, arms bearing, privacy, states' rights, and popular sovereignty, Amar concludes, we must hearken to both the Founding Fathers who created the Bill and their sons and daughters who reconstructed it. Amar's landmark work invites citizens to a deeper understanding of their Bill of Rights and will set the basic terms of debate about it for modern lawyers, jurists, and historians for years to come.
The Federal Register, what it is and how to Use it
Author: United States. Office of the Federal RegisterPublisher:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Excessive Maritime Claims
Author: J. Ashley RoachPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004217738
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
This title is designed for law of the sea and maritime law specialists. The coverage includes current affairs in martime law such as submarine cables, polar areas, environmental protection, sovereign immunity and sunken ships, and maritime law enforcement.
Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice
Author: United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal CounselPublisher:
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Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Seventh National Conference on Light Rail Transit
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309061520
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The 1995 National Conference on Light Rail Transit (LRT), "Building on Success--Learning from Experience", emphasizes the lessons resulting from the maturing of North American LRT systems. The conference adds to the growing body of knowledge and real-world experiences with modern LRT applications. Volume 1, contains 36 conference papers, organized in four parts. Volume 2, contains both conference papers and associated papers presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C.
Electric Power Wheeling and Dealing
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Category : Electric power distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Scattered-site Housing
Author: James HoganProperty Tax in Africa
Author: Riël C. D. FranzsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781558443631
Category : Property tax
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"Overview of property tax systems across Africa. Reviews of salient features for 29 countries and four regions (Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, North African countries). Chapters offer in-depth discussion of key policy issues (tax base, exemptions and other relief, and tax rate), administrative issues (valuation and assessment, billing, collection, enforcement), and the future of the property tax in Africa"--Provided by publisher.
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