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A Fire Bell In The Past - The Missouri Crisis At 200, Volume I, Western Slavery, National Impasse

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 Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference on Constitutional Democracy. Contributors reassess and add to historians' understanding of the full scope of the causes and consequences of what came to be known as the Missouri Crisis, on a regional and national basis.
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Bureaucracy In America - The Administrative State''S Challenge To Constitutional Government

by Joseph Postell

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 Examines the history of administrative power in America and argues that modern administrative law has failed to protect the principles of American constitutionalism as effectively as earlier approaches to regulation and administration.
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From Oligarchy To Republicanism - The Great Task Of Reconstruction

by Forrest A. Nabors

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Disestablishment And Religious Dissent - Church-State Relations In The New American States, 1776-1833

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A History Of American Legislatures, 1619-2024

by Peverill Squire

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Dangerous Spirit Of Liberty - The Politics Of Slaves And Rebels In Early America And The West Indies, 1688-1748

by Justin James Pope

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 The story of an era of slave unrest that swept through the Atlantic World in the first half of the eighteenth century. Provinces along the eastern coast of North America and around the Caribbean Sea experienced more insurrections and conspiracy trials in the 1730s and 1740s than in any period before the Age of Revolution.
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The Myth Of Coequal Branches - Restoring The Constitutionâ€™S Separation Of Functions

by David J. Siemers

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John Henry Wigmore And The Rules Of Evidence Volume 1 - The Hidden Origins Of Modern Law

by Andrew Porwancher

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 John Henry Wigmore single-handedly modernized the jury trial with his 1904-5 Treatise on evidence, an encyclopaedic work that dominated the conduct of trials. In so doing, he inspired generations of progressive jurists to reshape American law. This book provides a radical reappraisal of his place in the birth of modern legal thought.
The Panic Of 1819 - The First Great Depression

by Andrew H. Browning

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 Tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. The Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the US, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom of 1818, and crashing just as the nation confronted the crisis over slavery in Missouri.
The Federalist Frontier - Settler Politics In The Old Northwest, 1783-1840

by Kristopher Maulden

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 Traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois - from the nationâ€™s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s.
Liberal Education And Citizenship In A Free Society

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 A collection of 18 original essays that deepen our understanding of under appreciated issues in the history of political thought. The contributing authorsâ€™ competing perspectives provide innovative insights into how liberal arts universities might adapt to a post-COVID-19 academic environment by recalibrating long-standing pedagogic aims.
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Reforming Legislatures - American Voters And State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020

by Peverill Squire

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 Offers a unique perspective on what American voters have historically thought about legislatures as organisations and legislators as representatives. Rather than focusing on responses, this study leverages the most significant difference between national and state politics: the existence of ballot propositions in the latter.
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Pushback - The Political Fallout Of Unpopular Supreme Court Decisions

by Dave Bridge

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 Offers readers an innovative and highly accessible ways to think about the ways in which constitutional democracy can push back against rare counter-majoritarian Supreme Court decisions.
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Life-Altering - Abortion Stories From The Midwest

by Angie Leventis Lourgos

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 Examines different aspects of abortion from the perspectives of those who have terminated pregnancies, illustrating how court cases, state legislation, and religious beliefs can shape the lives and reproductive choices of ordinary people.
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Bureaucracy In America - The Administrative State'S Challenge To Constitutional Government

by Joseph Postell

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 Examines the history of administrative power in America and argues that modern administrative law has failed to protect the principles of American constitutionalism as effectively as earlier approaches to regulation and administration.
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Seeing Mad - Essays On Mad Magazine'S Humor And Legacy

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 An illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humour magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year history. The booko offers perceptive, informed, engaging, but also funny essays by a variety of scholars.
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Lloyd Gaines And The Fight To End Segregation

by James W. Endersby e William T. Horner

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 The first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers - including Charles Houston, known as â€˜the man who killed Jim Crowâ€™ - who advanced a concerted strategy to produce political change.
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The Pursuit Of Happiness In The Founding Era - An Intellectual History

by Carli N. Conklin

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 Considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions, and explores its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era, the Declaration of Independence and William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.
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Take Up The Black Man'S Burden - Kansas City'S African American Communities, 1865-1939

by Charles E. Coulter

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 Unlike many cities farther north, Kansas City, Missouri had a significant African American population by the midnineteenth century and also served as a way station for those migrating north or west. Take Up the Black Man's Burden focuses on the people and institutions that shaped the city's black communities from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of World War II.
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Banned In Kansas - Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966

by Gerald R. Butters

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 In 1915, Kansas became one of only a handful of US states to establish its own film censorship board. The Kansas board controlled screen content in the state for more than fifty years, yet little is known about its activities. This first book-length study of state film censorship examines the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas.
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The Wild Mammals Of Missouri

by Elizabeth R. Schwartz

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 First published in 1959 and written by two of Missouri's most distinguished conservationists, this reference book is the defnitive guide to Missouri's wild mammals. Maintaining the original book's successful format and the language that made it accessible to both professional and lay readers, this third revised edition includes newly updated species distribution maps.
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Unmasked

by Mendenhall

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A Fire Bell In The Past - The Missouri Crisis At 200, Volume Ii: "The Missouri Question" And Its Answers

by Jeffrey L. Pasley e John Craig Hammond

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 Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri â€˜Questionâ€™, in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.
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Blue Song - St. Louis In The Life And Work Of Tennessee Williams

by Henry I. Schvey

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 Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Tennessee Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.
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