Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Hatch Act Provisions Most Important to Federal Government Employees
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Hatch Act Provisions Most Important to Government Employees
Author: The Hatch Act
Author: John R. BoltonPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch
Author: United States. Office of Government EthicsPublisher:
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Category : Civil service ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Federal Election Campaign Laws
Author: United StatesPublisher:
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Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Perilous Times
Author: Geoffrey R. StonePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
Author: Randy E. BarnettPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257766
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
A renowned constitutional scholar and a rising star provide a balanced and definitive analysis of the origins and original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendmentÕs key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Barnett and Bernick contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was the culmination of decades of debates about the meaning of the antebellum Constitution. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. They also utilized what is today called public-meaning originalism. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. It went beyond abolition to enshrine in the Constitution the concept of Republican citizenship and granted Congress power to protect fundamental rights and ensure equality before the law. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment. With evenhanded attention to primary sources, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how the principles of the Declaration eventually came to modify the Constitution and proposes workable doctrines for implementing the key provisions of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Fighting the Spoilsmen
Author: William Dudley FoulkePublisher:
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Category : Civil service reform
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Secrecy
Author: Daniel Patrick MoynihanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Traces the development of secrecy as a government policy over the twentieth century and its adverse effects on Cold War policy making
Campaign Guide for Corporations and Labor Organizations
Author: United States. Federal Election CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description