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Amendment XIV: Due Process
Due process is probably one of the most important rights that your readers should know about, understand, and keep with themselves for the rest of their lives. Due process is fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement. This collection of essays presents the Fourteenth amendment through several essays that debate is meaning and use. Topics include truancy, double jeopardy, a woman's right to choose abortion, student suspension, detainees of the war on terrorism, music piracy, and immigration reform.
Of Courtiers and Princes
Praise for In Chambers: "This new collection of essays, including some by former clerks, takes readers inside justices’ chambers for a look at clerkship life.... [T]he best parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of life at the court."— Associated Press "An excellent book... It’s interesting for many different reasons, not the least of which as a reminder of how much of a bastion of elitism the Court has always been."— Atlantic Monthly In his earlier books, In Chambers and Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers provided an insider’s view of the Supreme Court from the perspective of the clerks who worked closely with some of its most important justices. With Of Cou...
No Greater Threat
Completely updated for 2005. Includes ... 'PATRIOT Act II, ' ... Supreme Court decisions, 'National Strategy' documents, 9-11 Commission recommendations, and various ongoing developments nationally and internationally in the 'war on terrorism.'
The Age of Impeachment
A Bancroft Prize-winning historian chronicles the modern history of impeachment and the shift in American politics and constitutional culture revealed by its evolving interpretation and use.
Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution
Focuses on the recent "Enemy Combatant Cases" to provide a stern critique of the legal and constitutional basis for the enormous expansion of presidential power during the Bush administration's "War on Terror," and the challenges (especially in the Supreme Court) that such expansion has inspired.
We Will be Heard
Freedom of expression and freedom of association, two fundamental rights in any democracy, have often been denied to those whose beliefs challenge the status quo. In this book, there are more than 90 stirring portraits and first-person accounts of people targeted for speaking out against government policies and actions. At a time when constitutional rights have become one of the most hotly debated issues in the United States, We will be heard reveals the remarkable tenacity of individuals who refused to be silenced.
Awakening from the Dream
Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice exposes the Supreme Court's methodical dismantling of federal laws that advance inclusion, equal membership, political participation, and economic mobility in our diverse national community. The ongoing Federalism Revolution has crippled Congress's legislative powers and made it difficult for individuals to bring suit to enforce their civil rights. Activists, law professors, public interest lawyers, and students discuss some of the Americans who have been deprived of justice by this rollback, making vivid the impact of the increasingly right-wing federal judiciary. The book, which stems from a Columbia ...
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power
Offers coverage of wartime extra-legal courts. Focusing on those periods when the Constitution and civil liberties have been most severely tested by threats to national security, Fisher critiques tribunals called during the presidencies of Washington, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Truman.
The Genius of Impeachment
Stating that impeachment is as American as apple pie, Nichols offers a fearless call to Americans to hold their leaders accountable to democracy.
