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The Side- by- Side Declaration of Independence
$17.99
By David Miles (Author) Do you know what's actually in the full Declaration of Independence? How it was written? What was happening at the time? How to read the formal language? Don't...
51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
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By Jeffrey S. Sutton *Signed Bookplate When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our...
The Poetic Justice: A Memoir
$29.95
By John Charles Thomas (Author), W. Taylor Reveley III (Foreword) This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black―and, at...
Contempt of Court, The turn-of-The Century lynching that launched a hundred years of Federalism
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By Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the...
A History of The Supreme Court Revised Edition
$28.99
By the late Bernard Schwartz (Author) When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge...
The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
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By Alison L. LaCroix A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision Between 1815...
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin
$24.95
By Marlene Trestman (Author) Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for...
Frederick Douglass - Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
$39.95
An inclusive and comprehensive examination of the political thought of Douglas alongside of antislavery contemporaries like Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner. Author Peter C. Myers captures Douglas's vivid discontent as...
Washington's Heir - The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington
$39.95
George Washington's nephew and heir was a Supreme Court Justice for over 30 years and left an indelible mark on American Law - yet he is unknown to most Americans. ...
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
By Peter Charles Hoffer The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall...
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
$31.95
By Lea VanderVelde Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the...
The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
By Howard Ball Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set...
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