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John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
$34.99
By Jean Edward Smith It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of...
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By Christopher Capozzola Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This plain-English guide walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and...
M'Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
By Mark R. Killenbeck (Author) *Signed by Author Federalism—including its meanings and limits—remains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law. To fully understand its importance, we must turn...
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
By Colleen A. Sheehan (Author) In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison’s National Gazette essays of 1791–92 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
By Erika Lee (Author) With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis...
Contempt of Court, The turn-of-The Century lynching that launched a hundred years of Federalism
$20.00
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...
Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression
By John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension...
Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition
$29.95
By Ralph A. Rossum Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is...
Becoming Justice Blackmun
$22.00
By Linda Greenhouse *Signed Bookplate In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America's most private branch of government, the Supreme...
The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation
By Charles A. Lofgren In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within...
Liberty & Union, The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
By Timothy S. Huebner *Signed Bookplate “This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of...