Constitution: Government & The State

During the twentieth century, and particularly between the 1930s and 1950s, ideas about the nature of constitutional government, the legitimacy of ...

A Washington Post Book World Best Seller  “Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talkin...

This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations—the United States, England, Fr...

A leading legal scholar provides a highly original comparative analysis of how justice is administered in legal systems around the world and of the...

Under the banners of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, the Supreme Court has constitutionalized a vast amount of criminal procedure law in w...

This powerfully conceptualized book is both a rich intellectual history of two hundred years of American constitutional theory and an original phil...

A classic in American constitutional history, Max Farrand’s famous account of the Federal Convention presents a vivid analysis of the conditions, t...

How does the Supreme Court work? Is there something undemocratic about having unelected judges overturn laws passed by elected legislators? How can...

The United States Constitution has already been interpreted to provide a variety of family-related protections which, if applied consistently, also...

Since the early 1900s, the manager form of municipal government has had enthusiastic support. Today, it is one of the most popular forms of municip...

In 1924 America passed legislation that effectively outlined which immigrants were to be considered beneficial to the national body and which were ...

Founded in 1900, the National Civic Federation (NCF), a broad-based, nongovernmental social and policy reform organization, emerged throughout the ...

Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to r...

Zimmerman examines in detail the use of the recall by United States voters to remove elected state and local officials from office. The arguments o...

Whether newly-freed slaves could be trusted to own firearms was in great dispute in 1866, and the ramifications of this issue reverberate in today'...

In America, women are the clear majority of the electorate and the clear minority of elected officials overall. In 1997, women held only 21% of the...