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American Constitutional Law |
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Book Description
More than a casebook, this comprehensive text contains thirteen chapters that cover the entire range of topics in constitutional law. Each of the chapters includes an extended essay providing the legal, historical, political, and cultural contexts for the set of edited decisions from the United States Supreme Court that follows. In selecting, editing, and updating the materials, the authors emphasize recent trends in major areas of constitutional interpretation. At... >> |
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Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Rights |
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From Publishers Weekly
The double meaning in Dershowitz's title indicates just one of the insightful thoughts that mark the well-known Harvard law professor's latest work. In tracing the evolution of rights, he argues forcefully against any concept of natural rights deriving from religion and from law. Defining himself as a pragmatist, Dershowitz asserts that human rights derive from the world's experience with "wrongs," i.e., injustice. Only after seeing genocide, for example, did ... >> |
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The Maine State Constitution : A Reference Guide (Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States) |
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Book Description
This is the first and only comprehensive reference guide to the Maine State Constitution. One of Greenwood's Reference Series on State Constitutions, this volume highlights major trends and developments in constitutional revision and interpretation in Maine and summarizes the meaning and effect of each constitutional provision. This study covers the history of the Maine Constitution, offers a section-by-section analysis with full text, provides a bibliographical ess... >> |
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Constitutional Law
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