Catálogo de libros: john r vile

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  • The Bible in American Law and Politics
    John R. Vile
    John Vile provides an indispensable guide for scholars and students in religion, American history, law, and political science to understand how Americans throughout its history have interpreted and applied the Bible to legal and political issues. ...
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    175,19 €

  • Conventional Wisdom
    John R. Vile
    Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them. Scholars and frustrated advocates of constitutional change have often criticized this process for being too difficult. Despite this, state legislatures have yet to use the other primary method that...
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    36,87 €

  • More Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    George Mason [1725-1792] is remembered as the father of the Bill of Rights and for his unwillingness to sign the U.S. Constitution. John R. Vile examines Mason’s political philosophy and writings that have influenced American political thought. Chief of these is the Virginia Declaration of Rights which served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights. xxi, 271 pp. ...
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    95,49 €

  • A Constellation of Great Men
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    One of the most gifted of America’s founding fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania not only signed the Declaration of Independence, but also utilized his keen powers of observation to describe most of his fellow delegates to the Second Continental Congress. His character sketches thus complement later descriptions that William Pierce of Georgia drafted of delegates to the ...
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    95,53 €

  • Essential Supreme Court Decisions
    John R Vile / John R. Vile / John RVile
    The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare, gay marriage, the First Amendment, search and seizure, among others. Updat...
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    134,40 €

  • Essential Supreme Court Decisions
    John R Vile / John R. Vile / John RVile
    The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare, gay marriage, the First Amendment, search and seizure, among others. Updat...
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    48,60 €

  • The Men Who Made the Constitution
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated the debates, the exchanges were also shaped by the dynamic personalities of the fifty-five delegates who attended from twelve of the thirteen states.In The Men Who Made the Consti...
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    107,39 €

  • The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action examines the events surrounding the development of the U.S. Constitution. Setting these events within the context of the colonial conflict with Britain and the experience with state constitutions under the Articles of Confederation, John R. Vile discusses the delegates who attended the Constitutio...
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    63,90 €

  • A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, Fifth Edition
    John R. Vile / John RVile
    A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments is designed to show students just how revolutionary the Constitution was-and how relevant it remains today. It begins by revisiting the key events leading to the Constitution’s ratification, including the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, then goes art...
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    55,19 €

  • Summaries of Leading Cases on the Constitution
    John R Vile / John R. Vile / John RVile / Joseph F Menez / Joseph F. Menez / Joseph FMenez / MENEZ / VILE
    This landmark book has long been the gold standard of concise summaries of important U.S. Supreme Court cases in U.S. constitutional law from the establishing of the Court to the present. For the 50th Anniversary Edition, the book has been thorougly revised, reorganized, and updated through the end of the 2002-2003 term. ...
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    71,64 €

  • Constitutional Change in the United States
    John R. Vile / John RVile
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    96,00 €

  • Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process
    John R. Vile / John RVile
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    95,75 €