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Does Privilege Prevail? - Litigation In High Courts Across The Globe

de Kirk A Randazzo, Reginald S Sheehan e Stacia L Haynie

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 Justice is supposed to be blind. Cynics will say they know better. But what do the facts say? This groundbreaking study provides objective, data-driven answers to long-standing questions about winners and losers in courtrooms across the world. Does the party with the greater resources, such as money and influence, always prevail - and if so, why?
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Constitutional Powers And Politics - How Citizens Think About Authority And Institutional Change

de Eileen Braman

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 In this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to the American governing system.
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Armed Citizens - The Road From Ancient Rome To The Second Amendment

de Noah Shusterman

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 Explains for a general reader what eighteenth-century American militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state. The book suggests that the question was never whether there was a right to bear arms, but rather, who had the right to bear arms.
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Of Courtiers And Kings - More Stories Of Supreme Court Law Clerks And Their Justices

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Creating Constitutional Change - Clashes Over Power And Liberty In The Supreme Court

70,30€

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 Because the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tell us what Constitution means, they can create constitutional change. In each of the cases in this book, the authors address a number of questions that provide readers with a deeper understanding of the Court and its policies.
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Does Privilege Prevail? - Litigation In High Courts Across The Globe

de Kirk A Randazzo, Reginald S Sheehan e Stacia L Haynie

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 Justice is supposed to be blind. Cynics will say they know better. But what do the facts say? This groundbreaking study provides objective, data-driven answers to long-standing questions about winners and losers in courtrooms across the world. Does the party with the greater resources, such as money and influence, always prevail - and if so, why?
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When Dissents Matter - Judicial Dialogue Through Us Supreme Court Opinions

de Amy Steigerwalt, Artemus Ward e Pamela C. Corley

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 Analysing the influence of past dissents on later Supreme Court majority opinions, this book presents the first comprehensive study of the effects of dissenting opinions and illuminates which types of dissents successfully influence legal and policy debates, which ones fail to make a difference, and why.
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When Dissents Matter - Judicial Dialogue Through Us Supreme Court Opinions

de Amy Steigerwalt, Artemus Ward e Pamela C. Corley

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 Analysing the influence of past dissents on later Supreme Court majority opinions, this book presents the first comprehensive study of the effects of dissenting opinions and illuminates which types of dissents successfully influence legal and policy debates, which ones fail to make a difference, and why.
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Constitutional Powers And Politics - How Citizens Think About Authority And Institutional Change

de Eileen Braman

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 In this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to the American governing system.
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The Senate - From White Supremacy To Governmental Gridlock

de Daniel Wirls

44,55€

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 In this lively analysis, Daniel Wirls examines the US Senate in relation to other American institutions of government and the constitutional system as a whole, exposing the role of the â€˜worldâ€™s greatest deliberative bodyâ€™ in undermining effective government and maintaining white supremacy in America.
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Material Witnesses - Domestic Architecture And Plantation Landscapes In Early Virginia

de Camille Wells

43,71€

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 The Chesapeake region offers a wealth of evidence for readers and researchers who want to discover what life was like in early America. In this eagerly anticipated volume, Camille Wells, one of the foremost experts on eighteenth-century Virginia architecture, gathers the discoveries unearthed during a career spent studying the buildings and plantations across this geographic area.
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New Communitarian Thinking - Persons, Virtues, Institutions And Communities

30,84€

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 Communitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy and the future of liberalism and liberal societies. These essays bring communitarian thinking to bear on such contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech and personal autonomy.
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The Senate - From White Supremacy To Governmental Gridlock

de Daniel Wirls

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 In this lively analysis, Daniel Wirls examines the US Senate in relation to other American institutions of government and the constitutional system as a whole, exposing the role of the â€˜worldâ€™s greatest deliberative bodyâ€™ in undermining effective government and maintaining white supremacy in America.
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High Courts In Global Perspective - Evidence, Methodologies, And Findings

60,45€

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 Pulls back the curtain on the interlocutors of court systems internationally. This book creates a framework for a comparative analysis that weaves together a collective narrative on high court behaviour and the scholarship needed for a deeper understanding of cross-national contexts.
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Of Courtiers And Princes - Stories Of Lower Court Clerks And Their Judges

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 In his earlier books, Todd Peppers provided an insider's view of the US Supreme Court from the perspective of the clerks who worked closely with some of its most important justices. In this volume he examines the understudied yet equally fascinating role of lower court clerks - encompassing pioneering women and minorities.
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Lighting The Way - Federal Courts, Civil Rights, And Public Policy

de Douglas Rice

43,71€

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 Do American federal courts, including the Supreme Court, lead or merely implement public policy? This is a critical question in the study and practice of law, with a long history of continued dispute and contradictory evidence. In Lighting the Way, Douglas Rice systematically examines both sides of this debate.
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Old Southampton - Politics And Society In A Virginia County, 1834-1869

de Daniel W. Crofts

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 Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton County notorious. Old Southampton links local and national history. It explains how partisan loyalties developed, how white democracy flourished in the late antebellum years, how secession sharply divided neighbourhoods, and how former slaves challenged the prerogatives of former slaveholders.
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The Illiberal Imagination - Class And The Rise Of The U.S. Novel

de Joe Shapiro

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 Offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how - and to what end - US novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation. In conversation with intellectual, social, and labor history, this study tracks the representation of class inequality and conflict across five subgenres of the early US novel.
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The Illiberal Imagination - Class And The Rise Of The U.S. Novel

de Joe Shapiro

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 Offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how - and to what end - US novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation. In conversation with intellectual, social, and labor history, this study tracks the representation of class inequality and conflict across five subgenres of the early US novel.
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Experiencing William James - Belief In A Pluralistic World

de James Campbell

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 William James has long been recognised as a central figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary thinking. Yet there has never been a comprehensive exploration of his thought. In Experiencing William James, James Campbell provides the fuller and more complete analysis that James scholarship has long needed.
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Experiencing William James - Belief In A Pluralistic World

de James Campbell

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 William James has long been recognised as a central figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary thinking. Yet there has never been a comprehensive exploration of his thought. In Experiencing William James, James Campbell provides the fuller and more complete analysis that James scholarship has long needed.
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The Word On The Streets - The American Language Of Vernacular Modernism

de Brooks E. Hefner

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 From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism - one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity.
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The Word On The Streets - The American Language Of Vernacular Modernism

de Brooks E. Hefner

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 From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism - one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity.
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The Making Of A Racist - A Southerner Reflects On Family, History, And The Slave Trade

de Charles B. Dew

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 In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South - and particularly its history of slavery - turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.
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