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  • A License to Steal
    Leonard W. Levy / Leonard WLevy
    Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society. Arguing that civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Levy provides examples of the victimization of innocent people and demonstrates that it has been used primarily against petty offien...
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    47,87 €

  • Ranters Run Amok
    Leonard W. Levy / Leonard WLevy
    America’s foremost historian of law. ...
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    26,62 €

  • Lemuel Shaw
    Leonard W. Levy / Leonard WLevy
    Lemuel Shaw: Chief Justice Of The Supreme Judicial Court Of Massachusetts (1885) is a biography written by Leonard W. Levy. The book provides a comprehensive account of the life and career of Lemuel Shaw, who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. The author explores Shaw’s background, education, and legal career, as ...
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    23,39 €

  • Palladium of Justice
    Leonard W. Levy / Leonard Williams Levy / Leonard WLevy
    Trial by jury is the mainstay of the accusatorial system of criminal justice. Here one of our most distinguished constitutional scholars, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Leonard Levy, brings his formidable skills to bear in tracing the development of what many great legal minds have called the 'Palladium of Justice.' Recounting this history with his characteristic clarity, vigor, an...
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    16,99 €

  • Original Intent and the Framers’ Constitution
    Leonard W. Levy / Leonard Williams Levy / Leonard WLevy
    Rejecting the views of both left and right, Mr. Levy evaluates the doctrine of 'original intent' by examining the sources of constitutional law and landmark cases. 'Merciless and brilliant. In fascinating detail...Mr. Levy demonstrates that there can be no such animal [as original intent].'-Anthony Lewis, New York Times Book Review. ...
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    35,86 €

  • Blasphemy
    Leonard W. Levy
    Leonard Levy traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. He argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is ’numb’...
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    82,10 €

  • The Establishment Clause
    Leonard W. Levy
    Leonard Levy’s classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: ’Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .’ He argues that, contrary to popular belief, the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit government aid to religion even on an impartial basis. He thus refutes the v...
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    60,89 €

  • Jefferson and Civil Liberties
    Leonard W. Levy
    A distinguished constitutional historian examines Jefferson’s record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. 'Blunt words and blunt facts...an indispensable book.' -Commentary ...
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    15,92 €