Author: Alexander Hamilton StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
Author: Alexander Hamilton StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
A Constitutional View of the late War between the States; its causes, character, conduct and results, presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall
Author: Alexander Hamilton StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
Author: Alexander Hamilton StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Salesman's dummy, containing prospectus (p. [1]-[39], 1st group), press notices about the work (p. 1-15), and blanks for names of subscribers; sample bindings mounted inside front and back covers. LC copy has been used as scrapbook with t.p. and first few pages of text obscured by mounted newspaper clippings.
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
Author: Alexander StephensPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429015888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Mr. Stephens's union speech of 1860 the subject on which the discussion begins
Author: Alexander Hamilton StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
This book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War.
The Law of the Land
Author: Akhil Reed AmarPublisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465065902
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
From Kennebunkport to Kauai, from the Rio Grande to the Northern Rockies, ours is a vast republic. While we may be united under one Constitution, separate and distinct states remain, each with its own constitution and culture. Geographic idiosyncrasies add more than just local character. Regional understandings of law and justice have shaped and reshaped our nation throughout history. America’s Constitution, our founding and unifying document, looks slightly different in California than it does in Kansas. In The Law of the Land, renowned legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar illustrates how geography, federalism, and regionalism have influenced some of the biggest questions in American constitutional law. Writing about Illinois, “the land of Lincoln,” Amar shows how our sixteenth president’s ideas about secession were influenced by his Midwestern upbringing and outlook. All of today’s Supreme Court justices, Amar notes, learned their law in the Northeast, and New Yorkers of various sorts dominate the judiciary as never before. The curious Bush v. Gore decision, Amar insists, must be assessed with careful attention to Florida law and the Florida Constitution. The second amendment appears in a particularly interesting light, he argues, when viewed from the perspective of Rocky Mountain cowboys and cowgirls. Propelled by Amar’s distinctively smart, lucid, and engaging prose, these essays allow general readers to see the historical roots of, and contemporary solutions to, many important constitutional questions. The Law of the Land illuminates our nation’s history and politics, and shows how America’s various local parts fit together to form a grand federal framework.
The Living Constitution
Author: David A. StraussPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199703698
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and other "originalists," explaining in clear, jargon-free English how the Constitution can sensibly evolve, without falling into the anything-goes flexibility caricatured by opponents. The living Constitution is not an out-of-touch liberal theory, Strauss further shows, but a mainstream tradition of American jurisprudence--a common-law approach to the Constitution, rooted in the written document but also based on precedent. Each generation has contributed precedents that guide and confine judicial rulings, yet allow us to meet the demands of today, not force us to follow the commands of the long-dead Founders. Strauss explores how judicial decisions adapted the Constitution's text (and contradicted original intent) to produce some of our most profound accomplishments: the end of racial segregation, the expansion of women's rights, and the freedom of speech. By contrast, originalism suffers from fatal flaws: the impossibility of truly divining original intent, the difficulty of adapting eighteenth-century understandings to the modern world, and the pointlessness of chaining ourselves to decisions made centuries ago. David Strauss is one of our leading authorities on Constitutional law--one with practical knowledge as well, having served as Assistant Solicitor General of the United States and argued eighteen cases before the United States Supreme Court. Now he offers a profound new understanding of how the Constitution can remain vital to life in the twenty-first century.
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryCatalogue of the ... Library of the Late William Beach Lawrence ... Comprising a Large and Select Collection of Books ... to be Sold by Auction ...
Author: William Beach LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description