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American Constitutional Law: Constitutional Rights: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Volume 2) - Softcover

Fisher, Louis; Harriger, Katy

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9781531009540: American Constitutional Law: Constitutional Rights: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Volume 2)
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ISBN 10: 1531009549 ISBN 13: 9781531009540
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, 2019

Synopsis

This book, in addition to analyzing and including excerpts of court decisions, highlights the efforts of legislatures, executives, the states, and the general public to participate in an ongoing political dialogue about the meaning of the Constitution. It therefore rejects the idea that elected leaders and the public must passively receive and obey a series of unilateral and final judicial commands. The book covers all new developments in case law, congressional statutes, presidential policies, and initiatives undertaken by states under their own constitutions. Included are readings not only from cases but congressional floor debates, committee reports, committee hearings, presidential vetoes and statements, opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, state activity, Federalist papers, and professional journals.

Professors may choose between the one-volume casebound book or two paperbacks: Volume 1 on "Constitutional Structures: Separated Powers and Federalism," and Volume 2 on "Constitutional Rights: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties."

This paperback Volume 2 (subtitled Constitutional Rights: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties) includes chapters 10 through 19 of American Constitutional Law, Twelfth Edition (hardback).

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About the Authors

Louis Fisher is Scholar in Residence at the Constitution Project. Previously, he worked for four decades at the Library of Congress as Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers (Congressional Research Service, from 1970 to 1996) and Specialist in Constitutional Law (Law Library, from 2006 to 2010).

Katy Harriger is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University.

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Publisher
Carolina Academic Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1531009549
ISBN 13 
9781531009540
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
756
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