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On Liberty John Stuart Mill On Liberty brilliantly defines the ideal balance of individual rights and the power of the state. The philosopher Bertrand Russell declared, "On Liberty remains a classic. . . . The present world would be better than it is, if [Mill's] principles were more respected." The book remains one of the seminal works of political theory in our culture. A publication of Boomer Books, especially designed and typeset for easy reading. |
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Declaration Of Independence, Constitution Of The United States Of America, Bill Of Rights And Constitutional Amendments Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison A compilation of important American government documents including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill of Rights and all amendments to the United States Constitution. An excellent educational reference tool to have on hand.
This is a DRM FREE digital edition (NO Digital Rights Management!), with linked Table of Contents. |
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Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas Dale Carpenter "A real-life detective story that reveals the drama behind the scenes of a great Supreme Court victory for human rights." —Linda Greenhouse No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in our judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family. Indeed, when Harris County sheriff’s deputies entered the second-floor apartment, there was no gun. Instead, they reported that they had walked in on John Lawrence and Tyron Garner having sex in Lawrence’s bedroom. So begins Dale Carpenter’s "gripping and brilliantly researched" Flagrant Conduct, a work nine years in the making that transforms our understanding of what we thought we knew about Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark Supreme Court decision of 2003 that invalidated America’s sodomy laws. Drawing on dozens of interviews, Carpenter has taken on the "gargantuan" task of extracting the truth about the case, analyzing the claims of virtually every person involved. Carpenter first introduces us to the interracial defendants themselves, who were hardly prepared "for the strike of lightning" that would upend their lives, and then to the Harris County arresting officers, including a sheriff’s deputy who claimed he had "looked eye to eye" in the faces of the men as they allegedly fornicated. Carpenter skillfully navigates Houston’s complex gay world of the late 1990s, where a group of activists and court officers, some of them closeted themselves, refused to bury what initially seemed to be a minor arrest. The author charts not only the careful legal strategy that Lambda Legal attorneys adopted to make the case compatible to a conservative Supreme Court but also the miscalculations of the Houston prosecutors who assumed that the nation’s extant sodomy laws would be upheld. Masterfully reenacting the arguments that riveted spectators and Justices alike in 2003, Flagrant Conduct then reaches a point where legal history becomes literature, animating a Supreme Court decision as few writers have done. In situating Lawrence v. Texas within the larger framework of America’s four-century persecution of gay men and lesbians, Flagrant Conduct compellingly demonstrates that gay history is an integral part of our national civil rights story. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs |
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DEATH OF A FOLK HERO-UNSOLVED MURDER? Conley A.R. Rose Young, bright, ambitious, promising and albeit, a controversial Attorney-at-Law, known as Bertram "Bolo" Stapleton is gunned down tragically on the steps of his Law Chambers by an unknown assailant, who pumped three bullets into the chest and head of Stapleton as he approached his office in Capital City Kingstown St Vincent and the Grenadines. Pandemonium reigns among the Legal Fraternity. Why was he murdered? By whom? What were the reasons for his brutal and tragic demise? was a hit ordered on this popular Attorneys life? Did his murder have to do with politics or whatever strange circumstances, or mystery involved? Another unsolved murder? Yet the people of North Leeward regard Bertram "Bolo" Stapleton as their hero, the People's folk hero. |
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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement Joseph P. Shapiro A history of the disability rights movement discusses the ever-growing struggle of disabled people to challenge discrimination and explains how the disabled used their political clout to gain passage of the Americans With Disabilites Act. 25,000 first printing. |
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful Glenn Greenwald From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with Obama's shielding of Bush-era officials from prosecution, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else. |
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Constitutional Law - Individual Rights: Examples & Explanations, Fifth Edition Allan Ides, Christopher N. May Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, part of a two-volume set, is a problem-oriented guide to the principle doctrines of constitutional law as covered in the typical course. This straightforward text walks the student through the constitutional provisions that protect individual rights: Takings and Contracts clauses, Due Process, Freedoms of Speech and Religion, and Equal Protection. Designed to encourage students to think about the larger issues of constitutional law with depth and perception, this clear and informal text: - utilizes the unique, time-tested E&E that combines textual material with well-written and comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions to test students' comprehension of the materials and provide practice in applying legal principles to fact patterns. The questions (in which there are often a variety of issues presented in one fact situation) are similar to those on a law school or bar examination.
- parallels the major casebooks in its organization and will complement any constitutional law casebook
- explains legal concepts and principles in digestible sections, followed by examples and analyses that illustrate how to apply these concepts and principles in hypothetical situations.
With thoroughly updated text and examples and explanations, the Fifth Edition also incorporates important Supreme Court cases, including: - District of Columbia v. Heller, on the right to bear arms
- Gonzales v. Carhart, on regulation of abortion
- Kennedy v. Louisiana, on the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment
- Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, on benign race discrimination
- Exxon Shipping v. Baker, on due process limits on punitive damages
- Purcell v. Gonzalez, Riley v. Kennedy, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, and Bartlett v. Strickland on voting rights
- Davis v. FEC, on campaign expenditure limitations
- Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party, on ballot restrictions and right of association
- N.Y. State Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres, on ballot access restrictions and right of association
- FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, on political speech
- Enquist v. Oregon Dep't of Agriculture, on equal protection class of one
- Ashcrovt v. Iqbal, a prima facie case for alleging purposeful discrimination
- Morse v. Frederick, on students' school speech rights
- Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy, on speech rights of private schools in recruiting student athletes
- Davenport v. Washington Education Ass'n; Ysura v. Pocatello Education Ass'n ; and Locke v. Karass, on speech rights of government employees
- Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, on government speech on government property
- U.S. v. Williams, on First Amendment overbreadth and vagueness
Part of a two-volume set that includes a corresponding treatment of National Powers and Federalism, these two study guides compose a strong and sophisticated foundation in the doctrines and methods of constitutional law and constitutional argument. |
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality Richard Kluger Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger has updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out of Brown v. Board of Education. |
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An Essay On Niggers And Squirrels Marcus McGee An essay on the relationship between African American males and law enforcement, including insights on Rodney King, OJ Simpson and personal experiences of the author. An appeal to correct systemic wrongs and forge a new future.
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Constitutional Law for a Changing America 5th Edition: Rights, Liberties, and Justice (Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice) Lee Epstein, Thomas G. Walker This book highlights the role of politics-both inside and outside of the Court-in the development of constitutional law. |