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An inherent tension resides in the Fourth Amendment's strictures on unreasonable searches and seizures. Greater controls on the power of the police provide more privacy protections to citizens. Reduced controls on police actions provide less privacy protection to citizens.

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This tour of the American church/state issue revisits past controversies and personalities in the hope of enlightening present-day debates.

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(Hardback, 5th edition)

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(Hardback, Second Edition)

In the second revised and expanded edition of this invaluable reader, Michael Les Benedict draws together the important documents that have shaped and been shaped by the American Constitution from medieval times through the present day.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

In the second revised and expanded edition of this invaluable reader, Michael Les Benedict draws together the important documents that have shaped and been shaped by the American Constitution from medieval times through the present day.

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9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. This volume helps in understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West".

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This thorough examination of the roots and motivations for U.S. national security space policy provides an essential foundation for considering current space security issues.

During the Cold War era, space was an important arena for the clashing superpowers, yet the United States government chose not to station weapons there.

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This book explores some of the most glaring misunderstandings about the U.S. Supreme Court-and makes a strong case for why our Supreme Court Justices should not be entrusted with decisions that affect every American citizen.

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Here a leading scholar in constitutional law, Mark Tushnet, challenges hallowed American traditions of judicial review and judicial supremacy, which allow U.S. judges to invalidate "unconstitutional" governmental actions.

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The answer by Peterson, an expert on the Arabian peninsula who has already written fine books on Oman and North Yemen, is that the Emirs of the Arab Gulf have sought to be accountable to their citizens through a flexible mixture of traditional assemblies like the diwan and modern instruments like parliaments and an independent press.

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The answer by Peterson, an expert on the Arabian peninsula who has already written fine books on Oman and North Yemen, is that the Emirs of the Arab Gulf have sought to be accountable to their citizens through a flexible mixture of traditional assemblies like the diwan and modern instruments like parliaments and an independent press.

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This book gives a fresh perspective on minority governance using declassified files which challenge some of the myths surrounding the minority administrations in the 1970s, and reveals a British tradition of minority government which goes beyond that of other countries. -- .

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The state, ethnicity, and the multiethnic state.

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This book analyses the significance of coalition government for Britain and of the momentous constitutional reforms which the coalition is proposing.

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James Madison kept the most extensive notes of any attendee of the Constitutional Convention. Now his notes are presented with modern punctuation and spelling and helpful notes, fascinating background information on every delegate, and an overview of the tumultuous times. High school & older.

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Solid ground for optimism as well as cause for foreboding. So James L. Sundquist views the outcome of the struggle by the Congress in the 1970s to recapture powers and responsibilities that in preceding decades it had surrendered to a burgeoning presidency.

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Before it became a federation, the United States was briefly a "confederation", a much looser union composed of states rather than of peoples. "Unions of states" to promote economic well-being and to prevent war are now being revived. This study analyzes modern confederalism.

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This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas and institutional arangements that constitute the first states constitutions.

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How are congressional norms changing, and what does their evolution mean for how Congress serves American democracy today