Constitution: Government & The State

An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's ...

Legal scholar Peter M. Shane confronts U.S. presidential entitlement and offers a more reasonable way of conceptualizing our constitutional preside...

The Trump presidency was not the first to spark contentious debates about presidential power, but its impact on these debates will reverberate far ...

The U.S. Constitution and its 27 amendments (including the Bill of Rights) is a living document, as evidenced by new laws and Supreme Court rulings...

This history of the 1787 Constitutional Convention uses a chronological narrative format to capture the complexity, messiness, and unfolding daily ...

As part of a new series of Greenwood's comprehensive reference guides to the United States Constitution, Professor Durchslag's edition on the Eleve...

Traces the history of, and analyzes, the current status of the law on a number of prohibited acts forbidden to the federal government as prescribed...

Inaugurating Greenw4ood's Reference Guides to the United States Constitution series, this superlative guide to the Sixth Amendment is the first to ...

An examination of the language of law in the area of political representation, this book considers the development and recognition of group claims ...

During the late years of the 20th century, the issue of Native American influence on the formation of the U.S. government has become a hotly debate...

The issues and controversies surrounding the creation of our federal republic—and the rights of the federal government—have reverberated through ma...

Understanding the impact of constitutional rights in the real world depends on understanding the law of constitutional remedies for their violation...

This volume is a compilation of the U.S. federal special prosecutor/independent counsel investigations spanning the complete twenty-one year tenure...

Trace the roots of the concept of equal protection from the American Revolution and the formation of the Constitution through its application today...

In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, ...

Waltenburg and Swinford provide a detailed and systematic examination of state government activity before the U.S. Supreme Court. They provide an e...

Debates over the separation or accommodation of religion and government have divided Americans since the founding of our country and continue to ec...

When the Berlin Wall fell, so did the East German communist regime. Then began the complex task of creating a single German state. This work is a r...

The primordial bonds of early societies—common ancestry or tribal bonds and territorial or neighborhood bonds—are at the root of early political or...

This much revised and expanded edition guides researchers to sources that provide information about the general and specific subjects which form th...

Before it became a federation, the United States was briefly a confederation, a much looser union composed of states rather than of peoples. Unions...

The Fifth Amendment is typically equated in both popular and legal discourse with the privilege against self-incrimination. This concept, Garcia re...

Since the mid-1970s American presidents have, with growing frequency, claimed that they have the power to ignore any law they believe is unconstitu...

The reliance on state declarations of rights to expand rights protections during the last two decades has highlighted the political importance of s...

This work examines the European Union as mandated by the Maastricht Treaty. Using both empirical and theoretical perspectives, the author reviews s...

Academic libraries must frequently interact with state government. This book overviews the role of state government with respect to academic librar...

The Watergate crisis marked the beginning of the age of cynicism in America. This readable and insightful account examines what happened in Waterga...

This study provides an analytic framework---a theory of knowledge than identifies the kinds of structures and processes required for directing huma...