Constitutional
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Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
$38.99 Add to cartA landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Se- Author: Tameez, Zaakir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362555
- Language: English
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Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
$37.00 Add to cartA magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America
Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era- Author: Starkey, Brando Simeo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 385547382
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$49.58 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State
$28.99 Add to cartThroughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided. And, with recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, First Amendment… [more below]
- Series: Inalienable Rights
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190699736
- Language: English
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Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging guide to the most important free speech rules, rationales, and debates, including the strongest arguments for and against protecting the most controversial speech, such as hate speech and … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Strossen, Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0197699650
- Language: English
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The People’s Guide to the United States Constitution, Revised Edition
$15.95 Add to cartAlthough we are constantly bombarded with arguments over constitutional issues in the media, surveys show the majority of Americans have not read and understood our Constitution even though it is just… [more below]
- Author: Kluge, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0983215200
- Language: English
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Articles of Confederation
$12.95 Add to cartThis pocket-sized hardcover edition contains the preamble, conclusion, and all thirteen articles that make up the Articles of Confederation. The original document–one of the United States’ first gove… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Founding Fathers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1557094608
- Language: English
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Saving the Constitution
$19.95 Read moreYou will learn all about the Constitution one paragraph at a time. The original meaning of many of the phrases, ideas, and requirements of the Constitution have been lost over time, and our education … [more below]
- Author: Proctor, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0578218607
- Language: English
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Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century
$21.95 Read moreLauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution traces the evolution of … [more below]
- Author: Stone, Geoffrey R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494287
- Language: English
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The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do about It
$29.00 Read moreA former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward.Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a con… [more below]
- Author: Feingold, Russ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701526
- Language: English
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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
$17.99 Read moreAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forwa
- Author: Greene, Jamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699290
- Language: English
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We Dissent: Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan on Dobbs V. Jackson, the Supreme Court’s Decision Banning Abortion
$16.99 Read moreThe full text of one of the most radical and controversial Supreme Court decisions in American history, highlighting the galvanizing dissent by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan …
Dobbs v Jackso- Author: Breyer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1685890512
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment
$16.00 Read more“In this precise primer on firearms practices and policies, progressive talk-show host Hartmann examines the history of routine gun usage and extreme gun violence and assesses the influence of gun own… [more below]
- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1523085991
- Language: English
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The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
$52.50 Add to cartThe 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution–the product of compromises and an artifact of its time–and made it more democratic
Who wrote the Constitution? That
- Author: Kowal, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975610
- Language: English
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Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
$32.65 Add to cartHow the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black people
The summer of 2020 will be re
- Author: Carbado, Devon W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 162097424X
- Language: English
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Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
$29.99 Read moreChristianity Today Book Award of Merit in Politics and Public Life (2024)
How to heal America’s deep divisions by preserving religious liberty for all
As our political and soc- Series: Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
- Author: Berg, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0802881696
- Language: English
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The Harm in Hate Speech
$23.00 Read moreEvery liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech–except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Agai
- Series: Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures #10
- Author: Waldron, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0674416864
- Language: English
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Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
$20.00 Add to cartWhy originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation
“Chemerinsky . . . offers a concise, point-by-point refutation of the theory [of originalis- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273983
- Language: English
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
$29.99 Add to cartDeeply troubled by the Constitution’s inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is res
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091584
- Language: English
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Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution: Revised and Expanded Edition
$18.99 Add to cart“From Marbury v. Madison to Roe v. Wade. . . each essay provides a concise, lively, clearly explained account of the actual people and events involved in the litigation and a cogent summary of the thi
- Author: Garraty, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0061320846
- Language: English
