Urban, State & Local Government

The Two Treatises of Government (or "Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government") is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha and the Second Treatise outlines a theory of political or civil society based on natural rights and contract theory.

A friendly dinner party in Boulder, Colorado, unexpectedly
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forever changed. The victim and perpetrator roles are confused.
Neighbors pull away from each other. Careers are threatened.
This true story exposes the reader to the justice system, the role
of the police department, and an attorney who believed that truth
and innocence were worth fighting for.

The Police in America provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of policing in the United States today. Descriptive and analytical, the text is designed to offer undergraduate students a balanced and up-to-date overview of who the police ar

Death smiles upon us all, but Eddie Bond shows no fear and smiles back.

He is a warrior who fears no man or the unknowns in life. His only fear is he won’t meet God’s expectations. The dark shadow of death does not concern him because he believes inside his heart he carries the eternal flame of light, which leads him through perpetual life. His faith is his shield and in his right hand he carries the sword of justice. He will stand at the gates of Hell to defend the freedom of choice. His life is lived in chaos and confusion where death sometimes cannot distinguish between good and evil. He is a law enforcement officer who brings policing to a whole new level where a judge says to a defendant “you need protection from this officer.’ A policy of zero tolerance will not help in begging for forgiveness. It is God you need to ask for forgiveness. He believes it is his duty to remind you it’s time to pray. His name is Eddie Bond and a chance encounter with him can change the course of your destiny.

Eddie Bond “So Help Me God” is a novel of Fiction involving society, religion and law enforcement. Eddie Bond believes in truth there is fiction and in fiction one can find the truth.

This accessible and practical book is designed to illuminate the policy and personnel issues involved in all levels of public management in a format designed to keep students focused on the real world through use of cases and exercises. The new edition includes up-to-date coverage of new personnel management theories and state and local government.

This text sets forth in succinct form the essentials of this very complex body of law, with attention to the governmental policies underlying it. Some specialized matter that falls within this field has been omitted, such as the special problems in Oklahoma or New York, the serious problems of urban Indians, and the subject of the Native Hawaiians.

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This popular and completely updated reader is the only comprehensive reader on the American Presidency that is also accessible and engaging for undergraduate students. The editors culled the reading selections with several aims in mind: to include the historical perspective so often neglected in similar texts; to provide developmental views that explain how what happened over the past two centuries got us where we are today; and to present important current issues that are engaging the presidency during the Bush administration. Some articles are "classic" scholarly analyses, some represent the best of current scholarship, and some are engaging insights into the nature of the contemporary presidency.

Florida Constitutional Law, a casebook used throughout Florida since 1992, is now in its third edtion. Authors Cooper and Marks include the functions of a state constitution and how the Florida constitution in amended; separation of power issues; the major constitutional limits on legislative power; the constitutional jurisdiction of Flordia courts, as well as the separation of powers limits on the courts that resemble the Article III limits on federal judicial power; units of local government and their relationship to the state and each other; the major constitutional limitations on taxation and borrowing; a selected review of various sections of the Florida's privacy guarantee (which is far more extensive than privacy under the United States Constitution), and Florida's homestead provision. A teacher's manual is available.