Constitution: Government & The State

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...

This work provides the first in-depth study of the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution from the larger perspective of the developme...

This is one of the few book-length analyses of judicial review and public policy in very different parts of the world today. Donald W. Jackson and ...

Jimmy Carter was an unexpected president. The first Southerner since the Civil War to gain the office, he had pursued the presidency at the grass r...

The near conjunction of the bicentennial of the United States Constitution in 1989 and the completion of the European common market in 1992 provide...

This is the first large-scale aggregate data study of career-noncareer relations in U.S. administrations. This research is put into the perspective...

Noted experts examine America's power to go to war historically and recently, now that the Cold War has ended. They propose ways that the Congress ...

This timely and fascinating historical study of democracy in non-Western societies will increase the reader's appreciation of the continued struggl...

This study draws on critical historical analysis and contemporary language theory to illuminate John Marshall's jurisprudence and political philoso...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This book includes eight essays which help give the reader an understanding of the legal framework of American collective bargaining. It demonstrat...