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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

$19.95 – $35.00
*Signed Bookplate By Steve Luxenberg equal,” created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and...
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind

The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind

$17.95
*Signed Bookplate By Justin Driver An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor)...
The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges

The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges

$24.95
*Signed Bookplate By G. Edward White In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate...
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

$17.00
*Signed Bookplate By Joel Richard Paul No member of America's founding generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did...
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States

$18.00
*Signed Bookplate By James F. Simon The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive...
The American Experiment: Dialogues With A Dream

The American Experiment: Dialogues With A Dream

$32.00
*Signed Bookplate By David Rubenstein Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas.-Jill Lepore on the promise...
Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights

Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights

$20.00 – $27.95
*Signed Bookplate By Philippa Strum In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of...
Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and The Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and The Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

$35.00
*Signed Bookplate By Melvin I. Urofsky In his major work, acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one...
Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival

Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival

$35.00
*Signed Bookplate By Walter Stahr Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and...
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

$24.95
*Signed Bookplate By Randy E. Barnett The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring...
Citizen Justice - The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas, Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

Citizen Justice - The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas, Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

$29.95
*Signed Bookplate By Hon.M. Margaret Mckeown (Author) U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four...
Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

$70.00 – $175.00
*Signed Bookplate By Mark V. Tushnet From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus...

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