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020 | _a978-1-107-47662-2 | ||
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_a342(73) _bORR |
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245 | _aThe Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution | ||
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_aUnited Kingdom: _bCambridge University Press, _c2018. |
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300 | _aix, 508p. | ||
520 | _aThis Companion provides a broad, historically informed introduction to the study of the US constitutional system. In place of the usual laundry lists of cases, doctrines and theories, it presents a picture of the constitutional system in action, with separate sections devoted to constitutional principles, organizational structures, and the various legal and extra-legal "actions" through which litigators and average citizens have attempted to bring about constitutional change. | ||
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_aPart I : Principles _a1. A Lighter Touch: American Constitutional Principles in Comparative perspective _a2. Due Process: A Unified Understanding _a3. Civil Liberties and the Dual Legacy of the Founding _a4. Political Representation and the US constitution Andrew Rehfeld _a5. Equality |
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_aPART II: Structure _a6. Overcoming Sovereign Immunity: Causes of Action for Enforcing the Constitution _a7. Federalism _a8. Separation of Powers _a9. Executive Power and National Security Power _a10. The Constitution and the Administrative State |
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_aPART III ACTIONS _a11. Constitutional Judgment _a12. Suits against Officeholders _a13. Habeas Corpus _a14. The Supreme Court, the Constitution and American Public Policy _a15. The Constitution, the Law, and Social Change: Mapping Pathways of Influence |
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700 | _aOrren, Kare(ED.) | ||
700 | _aCompton, John W. (ED.) | ||
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