Oregon Blue Book
Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Oregon
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Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Oregon
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Author : Benjamin Perley Poore
Publisher :
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1528785878
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Author : James A. Gardner
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN :
Interpreting State Constitutions examines and proposes a solution to a problem central to contemporary debates over the enforcement of civil liberties: how courts, government officials, and lawyers should go about interpreting the constitutions of the American states. With the Supreme Court's retreat from the aggressive protection of individual rights, state courts have begun to interpret state constitutions to provide broader protection of liberties. This development has reversed the polarity of constitutional politics, as liberals advocate unimpeded state power while conservatives lobby for state subordination to a constitutional law controlled centrally by the Supreme Court. James A. Gardner here lays out the first fully developed theory of subnational constitutional interpretation. He argues that states are integral components of a national system of overlapping and mutually checking authority and that the purpose of this system is to protect liberty and defend against federal domination. The resulting account provides valuable prescriptive advice to state courts, showing them how to fulfill their responsibilities to the federal system in a way that strengthens American constitutional discourse.
Author : Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Frederic Jesup Stimson
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Emily Zackin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 069115578X
Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.
Author : Albert Hutchinson Putney
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Law
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Author : Robert L. Maddex
Publisher : C Q Press Library Reference
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Contains a short sketch of the history of each state and U.S. territory and its constitutional history, followed by a detailed summary of its current constitution. The Introduction includes comparative tables; the Appendix contains the U.S. Constitution.
Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691070667
The distinctiveness of state constitutionalism -- Explaining state constitutional development -- Eighteenth-century state constitutionalism -- Nineteenth-century state constitutionalism -- Twentieth-century state constitutionalism -- State constitutional interpretation.