epub |eng | | Author:Alan Hirsch

Two tickets for Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, January 14–15, 1999. The Republicans had prevailed in the House, but polls gave them no cause to gloat. The public continued to oppose ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Richard Beeman [Beeman, Richard]

THE DELEGATES HAD MADE so little progress in clarifying aspects of the American presidency up to that point that they specifically excluded the matter from the charge of the Committee ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-05-11 | Author:Robert A. Dahl [Dahl, Robert A.]

From an American perspective, the result can be unbelievable. In stark contrast to Holland and Switzerland, Swedish cabinets have frequently been drawn from a party or coalition that has actually ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Myron Magnet

A NOTE of icy scorn runs through Thomas’s opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Court upheld affirmative-action admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-21 | Author:Jack N. Rakove [Rakove, Jack N.]

Congress was not unique in this respect, for instability in office was a “capital Defect thro[ugh]out our appointments.” To be effective, Jackson noted, government had to be made “the Business ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Martin Loughlin [Loughlin, Martin]

If Parliament’s influence in choosing the Prime Minister and making laws has waned, so too has its authority in other ways. A series of scandals—ranging from ‘cash for questions’ in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-26 | Author:Floyd Abrams

IV The chasm between European and American free speech jurisprudence may best be gauged by viewing in some detail the different level of protection each provides in specific areas. A ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Duane [Duane, James]

A few years ago, Michael Morton was released from a Texas prison where he had spent almost twenty-five years of a life sentence for a crime that he did not ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Stephen D. Solomon

8 The Planter After spending the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, where he had presided over the drafting of the new Constitution, George Washington left for his estate at Mount ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fergus M. Bordewich

CHAPTER 16 A Southern Position I feel ashamed of the body to which I belong. —Benjamin Goodhue, June 1790 By June, the Pennsylvanians were losing their once-smug self-confidence, having realized ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Amar, Akhil Reed [Amar, Akhil Reed]

“the Heads of Departments” IN ALL THE WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATION EPISODES just canvassed, the president relied heavily on the advice of an inner circle of top executive-branch officials. This heavy reliance ...

azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lysander Spooner

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Martin Loughlin

3. John Redmond, leader of the Irish party, and Home Rule, 1911 (p. 71) support in Ireland, to achieve through parliamentary means what it had been seeking since 1885 contributed ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Carson MD, Ben & Carson, Candy [Carson MD, Ben & Carson, Candy]

State Militias The rule of law is important to the survival and advancement of any society. Our founders recognized that civil unrest with widespread rioting, looting, and violence would undermine ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:Richard Beeman

FEDERALIST NO. 78: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, MAY 28, 1788 “Federalist No. 78” is Alexander Hamilton’s most significant contribution to The Federalist Papers. The principle topic of the essay is the importance ...