David Kyvig's illuminating study provides the most complete and insightful history of that amendment process and its fundamental importance for American political life.
Amendment power, constituent power, and popular sovereignty : linking unamendability and amendment procedures / Yaniv Roznai -- Constitutional theory and cognitive estrangement : beyond revolutions, amendments, and constitutional moments / ...
This fact-filled book provides forceful and convincing arguments on all the current issues facing firearms ownership in America, including: arming airline pilots, "animal rights" extremists, extortion of firearms manufacturers, gun show ...
... changed since initial ratification . This argument would appear to reduce to the proposition that a seven - year extension can be viewed as " reason- able " only if no substantial number of States ... State legislatures may have relied on the ...
Contains forty-seven essays in which the authors discuss various aspects of the U.S. Constitution, covering the First through the Thirteenth Amendments.
From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement's fight against anti-gay ballot measures
Now in its fourth edition and completely updated, this is the most comprehensive book on constitutional amendments and proposed amendments available. • Provides clear explanations of each of the 27 constitutional amendments that have been ...
This updated edition of the established standard for high school and college libraries as well as public and law libraries serves as the go-to reference for learning about existing constitutional amendments, proposed amendments, and the ...
This book offers a set of alphabetically organized entries designed as a one-stop resource for high school and college students, members of the general public, and scholars interested in the numerous proposals that individuals have ...
"Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this two-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians"--