Author: Joseph Story
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Author: Joseph Story
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Our Enemies in Blue
Author: Kristian Williams
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352151
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352151
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.
Bread Upon the Waters
Author: Rose Pesotta
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875461274
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875461274
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Unequal Freedom
Author: Evelyn Nakano GLENN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights. After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights. After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.
Grand Expectations
Author: James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507680X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2924
Book Description
Interweaving key cultural, economic, social, and political events, a history of the United States in the post-World War II era ranges from 1945, through a turbulent period of economic growth and social upheaval, to Watergate and Nixon's 1974 resignation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507680X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2924
Book Description
Interweaving key cultural, economic, social, and political events, a history of the United States in the post-World War II era ranges from 1945, through a turbulent period of economic growth and social upheaval, to Watergate and Nixon's 1974 resignation
Cato Supreme Court Review 2003-2004
Author: Mark K. Moller
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 9781930865587
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A timely review of the Court's recent decisions.
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 9781930865587
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A timely review of the Court's recent decisions.
The Constitutional System of the United States: Profiles of Constitutional History of the United States of America (Claudio Martinelli); 2 The Challenge of Formal Amendment in the United States (Richard Albert); Introductory Note to the Form of Government (Guerino D'Ignazio); 3 Design, Evolution and Interpretation of Checks and Balances in the American Constitution (Andrea Buratti); 4 Congress (Davide De Lungo); 5 The Public Administration in the System of Separation of Powers (Guerino D'Ignazio); 6 Sovereignty and Federalism (Andrea Pin & David Kenny); 7 Federalism and the Welfare State (Andrea Pierini); 8 Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Paolo Passaglia); 9 The Supreme Court (Chiara Bologna); 10 The Judicial System (Angioletta Sperti); 11 Protecting the Constitution against the States? The Importance of the 'Guarantee Clause' in a Comparative Law Perspective (Giuseppe Martinico); About the Authors
Author: Guerino D'Ignazio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789089745866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book analyses the fundamental aspects of the Constitution of the United States of America, which has proven to be a reality in motion and with an 'exceptional' capacity to adapt to the rapid and profound changes that have occurred in over two centuries in American society and economy. The book aims to better understand how the constitutional text has evolved up to our times. The 27 amendments to the Constitution, the interpretation of the Supreme Court and the particular political system have ensured that the constitutional system has not undergone major institutional upheavals. Thanks to the contribution of the many authors, the book offers valuable insights into a constitutional system that still reveals an extraordinary relevance. This can be considered an added value to studies in the field of comparative law. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789089745866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book analyses the fundamental aspects of the Constitution of the United States of America, which has proven to be a reality in motion and with an 'exceptional' capacity to adapt to the rapid and profound changes that have occurred in over two centuries in American society and economy. The book aims to better understand how the constitutional text has evolved up to our times. The 27 amendments to the Constitution, the interpretation of the Supreme Court and the particular political system have ensured that the constitutional system has not undergone major institutional upheavals. Thanks to the contribution of the many authors, the book offers valuable insights into a constitutional system that still reveals an extraordinary relevance. This can be considered an added value to studies in the field of comparative law. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38
Author: Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher: Historical Materialism
ISBN: 9781642597783
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A magisterial study of the politics and practice of the American Trotskyist movement in its heyday.
Publisher: Historical Materialism
ISBN: 9781642597783
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A magisterial study of the politics and practice of the American Trotskyist movement in its heyday.
Reshaping America
Author: Robert Hamlett Bremner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Practical Writer with Readings
Author: Edward P. Bailey
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780155052987
Category : College readers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Practical Writer with Readings provides both developmental and first-year composition students with a step-by-step approach to writing, from the one-paragraph essay to the five-paragraph essay to the research paper.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780155052987
Category : College readers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Practical Writer with Readings provides both developmental and first-year composition students with a step-by-step approach to writing, from the one-paragraph essay to the five-paragraph essay to the research paper.