Catálogo de libros: Constitución: Gobierno y Estado

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  • Platform
    Jaime Jackson
    Democratic Egalitarianism is a belief in human equality and opportunity especially with respect to the social, political, and economic lives of a nation’s people.Platform points directly at a new and virulent strain of post-colonial feudalism that has evolved in our country from its inception 243 years ago. The result is a new class society — the New Feudalism — comprised of a ...
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    19,65 €

  • More Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    George Mason [1725-1792] is remembered as the father of the Bill of Rights and for his unwillingness to sign the U.S. Constitution. John R. Vile examines Mason’s political philosophy and writings that have influenced American political thought. Chief of these is the Virginia Declaration of Rights which served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights. xxi, 271 pp. ...
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    95,49 €

  • How to Save the Constitution
    Paul B. Skousen / W. Cleon Skousen
    Our Founding Fathers’ vision for America is under attack—and you can save it.America is a nation unique in the world, a government born under the radical idea of working for the people—not just for a powerful few. Our blueprint? The U.S. Constitution, a brilliant framework of common-sense rules necessary for self-governance. It works no matter which political party is in power....
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    18,34 €

  • How to Save the Constitution
    Paul B Skousen / W. Cleon Skousen
    Our Founding Fathers’ vision for America is under attack—and you can save it. America is a nation unique in the world, a government born under the radical idea of working for the people—not just for a powerful few. Our blueprint? The U.S. Constitution, a brilliant framework of common-sense rules necessary for self-governance. It works no matter which political party is in power...
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    28,42 €

  • James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations (1918)
    James Brown Scott
    An international law context for Madison’s notes on the debates of the Federal Convention of 1787. Since the Federal Convention of 1787 was “in fact as well as in form an international conference,” Scott examines James Madison’s notes from the perspective of international law. Founding father, statesman and political theorist, James Madison [1751–1836] was the primary author of...
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    30,59 €

  • The World Community between Hegemony and Constitutionalism
    Andraz Zidar
    Two dominant trends in today’s world are hegemony and constitutionalism. The attitude of greater states or regional blocks, such as the US, Russia, China and the EU, represents hegemony. In parallel, constitutionalism is getting stronger through international organizations, international adjudicatory bodies and ’higher norms’ of international law. While these processes represen...
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    156,07 €

  • The Forgotten Ninth Amendment [1955]
    Bennett B. Patterson / Bennett BPatterson
    This provocative essay considers the historical background, meaning and effect of the Ninth Amendment, which states “the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Patterson feels the amendment was “forgotten” because no real purpose has been found for it. He argues that the amendment would beco...
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    49,94 €

  • Understanding American Politics Today
    Osee Lieberman
    Comparative Politics of American Political Development: To understand American politics today, we need to understand the principles in those founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution. They don’t explain everything about today’s politics. But no accounting of today’s politics would be complete without bringing them into the story. Now, let’s talk abou...
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    13,38 €

  • Let the People Rule
    The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation. To tackle this problem, a growing number of established and new democracies included direct democratic instruments in their constitutions, enabling citizens to have direct influence on democratic decision-making. However, there are many different empirical mani...
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    65,63 €

  • Magna Carta (1914)
    William Sharp McKechnie
    Considered a primary factor in the undermining of the Whig history of Magna Carta, McKechnie’s landmark study provides a translation and detailed analysis of this fundamental text. xvii,530 pp. ...
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    48,62 €

  • The Constitutional Convention of 1787
    Stuart Leibiger
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    87,15 €

  • Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order
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    166,80 €

  • Habermas’s Public Sphere
    Michael Hofmann
    Habermas’s Public Sphere: A Critique systematically analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Habermas’s classic public sphere concept to reinvigorate it for evaluating the liberal promises and realities of modern societies. ...
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    54,19 €

  • The Irish parliament, 1613-89
    Coleman A. Dennehy / Coleman ADennehy
    This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative machinery both inside and outside the kingdom. ...
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    157,34 €

  • A Constellation of Great Men
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    One of the most gifted of America’s founding fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania not only signed the Declaration of Independence, but also utilized his keen powers of observation to describe most of his fellow delegates to the Second Continental Congress. His character sketches thus complement later descriptions that William Pierce of Georgia drafted of delegates to the ...
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    95,53 €

  • Washington In New York
    Richard Nisley
    Washington in New York. The nation’s capital is in New York City, George Washington is president, and the competing policies of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison are threatening to divide the infant republic before it has a chance to prove itself. Washington becomes ill and is near death, and the government comes to a standstill.The plot of a novel? No. It happened as recoun...
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    39,02 €

  • Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society
    National constitutions allow citizens to exercise full citizenship rights, leading to a growing importance in understanding these laws. This knowledge, more widespread thanks to the ever-growing use of digital networks, allows for more enlightened national citizens in every corner of the world. Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Socie...
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    255,99 €

  • A Short Treatise on Canadian Constitutional Law (1918)
    A.H.F. Lefroy / A.H.FLefroy
    Conceived for non-Canadian lawyers and students at colleges and law schools, this is a treatise on the constitution that governed Canada from 1867, when the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were united as the Dominion of Canada, to 1982, when the Dominion achieved complete political independence. xlviii, 322 pp. ...
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    36,30 €

  • After the Collapse of America
    Laurie Thomas Vass
    The citizens of America are irrevocably split between Democratic socialists, who desire a global socialist nation, and natural rights conservatives, who want nothing to do with socialism.There are no shared cultural values that bind the citizens into a common national mission.In the absence of shared cultural values, there is no force that compels voluntary obedience of citizen...
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    17,25 €

  • Free Speech in the United States (1967)
    Zechariah Chafee Jr.
    A rewritten and expanded version of his Freedom of Speech (1920), the seminal work that established modern First Amendment theory, this work became a foremost text of U.S. libertarian thought and influenced the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis. It considers, along with other related topics, the social necessity of free speech in the United States f...
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    80,87 €

  • Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society
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    196,66 €

  • Debating Federalism
    This reader includes documents selected to show the tension between federalism and concentrated sovereignty throughout American history. The book is accompanied by an introductory essay and additional annotations, and the editors argue that federalism was the Founding Fathers’ intended political system. ...
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    170,21 €

  • Debating Federalism
    This reader includes documents selected to show the tension between federalism and concentrated sovereignty throughout American history. The book is accompanied by an introductory essay and additional annotations, and the editors argue that federalism was the Founding Fathers’ intended political system. ...
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    60,88 €

  • Liberty to the Rescue
    John Wendell Ames
    Liberty to the Rescue shows how recommitment to the principles of liberty can arrest and cure the extreme polarization, despair, and incivility poisoning our republic. While Americans have been fortunate to enjoy more liberty than most of the world, we rarely appreciate what we have, and so risk losing that and more if we don’t practice and defend it.Liberty is introduced as si...
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    12,78 €

  • The Delegate from New York or Proceedings of the Federal Convention of 1787 from the Notes of John Lansing, Jr. (1939)
    John Lansing Jr.
    John Lansing [1754-1829] attended the Constitutional Convention as delegates from New York. His heirs discovered his notes among his papers. They were not published until 1939 and provide a rich new primary source record for scholars of the Convention. The notes were apparently intended for his private use only, and do not appear to have been altered or revised by him. Only in ...
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    50,33 €

  • Constitution for a Free People for City, County, Provincial State and National Governments - Revised
    Douglas Robinson Buck
    Constitution for a Free People presents all the tools needed to create a charter for freedom for any government: city, county, state, nation, or colony on the Moon or Mars.It is based on the original Constitution for the United States, with worthy safeguards to secure liberty and curb an overreaching government. It assumes that men and women are born free and that most, when th...
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    18,73 €

  • President Obama
    Louis Fisher
    On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles. In particular, he objected to George W. Bush’s claim to certain 'inherent' presidential powers that could not be checked by Congress or the judiciary. After his inauguration, how did President Obama’s constitutional principles fare? That is the question Louis Fisher explores in this book, a dis...
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    37,79 €

  • Forward To Freedom
    Jerry Combee
    Forward to Freedom: the American Constitution and Humanity’s Struggle for Liberty is a fast-paced, informative, and inspiring account of the Constitution and its historical roots. It is a must read for American citizens. Since 1789, Americans have venerated their Constitution. As the oldest written constitution of any nation, it has also been much admired and emulated around th...
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    18,68 €

  • Canada’s Federal System
    A.H.F. Lefroy / A.H.FLefroy
    A detailed commentary on the constitution that governed present-day Canada from its creation in 1867 under the British North American Act to 1982, when it achieved complete political independence. The foremost interpreter of the Canadian constitution in his day, Lefroy [1852-1919] was an important Canadian jurist who helped to draft several important amendments to Canada's ...
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    73,05 €

  • The Athenian Constitution
    Aristotle Aristotle
    Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students. Athens, however, was a particularly important state, and where Aristotle was living at the time; it is plausible that, even if students did the others, Aristotle did that...
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    18,03 €


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