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A "best sellers" of administrative law
This is a complete and remarkable book about administrative law, in which the study of administrative procedure is preponderant, especially from the perspective of the cases. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Administrative law    3. Cases    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. United States    7. Constitutional & administrative law    8. USA   

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Piviotal resource for ascertaining framer's intent
This is a monumental work, which I think is a must have for student of jurisprudence and constitutional law.I found it incredibly useful as a law student in studying the debates and understanding developments in the common law tradition and constitutional history since the inception of the Republic.It is well organized, and though their is some duplication of materials, it serves the purpose of making the reference more accessible and user-friendly rather than havinga cross-referencing scheme.Perhaps, the other user might be right in pointing out that the CD-ROM might be better suited for some users.I have an affinity for the printed matter and the organization makes things relatively easy to find.Though, it is available online for free.

Hard to Use
The book itself is amazing, and is a most for anyone studying the constitution or constitutional law.However, the Cd-rom version is signifacantly easier to use, and a lot cheaper.Plus there is no real reason to buy the CD or Book because the whole thing is on at the Chicago University webpage for free.But, if you need some sort of hard copy, go with the CD

Invaluable Resource
This 5-volume set is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the historical context of the U.S. Constitution.The editors have divided the Constitution up clause by clause.For each section they provide primary, explanatory materials such as letters, records of debates, and early case law.These resources reveal what the writers of the Constitution intended with the language they chose and how that langauge was orginally interpreted.The editors also provide interesting materials on early English law, showing the legal backdrop the Founders worked against.Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional history    2. Constitutions    3. Law    4. Political Science    5. Politics/International Relations    6. Sources    7. United States    8. American history: c 1500 to c 1800    9. Constitution: government & the state    10. Constitutional & administrative law    11. Modern period, c 1500 onwards    12. USA   

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well?
I bought this book knowing that I would have to wait for volume 2, knowing what was in this volume and what was to be in the later volume.As there's now no 2nd volume coming, the author appears to have misled his customers.Reminds me of Solomon, somehow -- halves of some things aren't worth half the price of the whole thing.

Perhaps the Most Over-rated Book of All Time
Under Mark Twain's definition, a classic book is one which people praise but don't read.By that definition, Tribe's treatise is one of the all time classics--if not, in fact, THE greatest classic in the history of the printed word.
Law Students Take A Look!
Tribe's treatise (Volume I) on U.S. Constitutional Law is worth a look.
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This book makes me want to hop the border to Canada
This book is truly awful.I don't know what her publisher was thinking by letting this book get out.The tone: Nasal.The language: Sociological jargon.The argument: Garbage.Save a tree and find something better.

Reframing immigration history
Mae Ngai's ambitious book compels historians and general readers alike to critically reassess traditional understandings of and approaches to U.S. immigration.Much of the histories on U.S. immigration and immigration policies have told a similar tale.The United States, the narrative goes, has been tainted by a long history of exclusion, a blight on the nation's democratic tradition that was only recently removed with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965.Such a narrative not only reaffirms the myth of American universalism, but also consistently fails to produce any new critical knowledge about U.S. immigration and U.S. history.Impossible Subjects differs from these other works of immigration history in this important respect: it proceeds with the conviction that the United States was never a "nation of immigrants."
The legally constructed "illegal aliens"
IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS, written by Mae Ngai, is the best of recent books on the 20th-century American history of immigration. She reveals that the problem of "illegal immigrants," which has been regarded as one of the most serious problems since the late 20th century, is indeed a legal construction. According to the author, immigrants from Mexico were drawn into the U.S. Southeast because the Southeast political economy, especially agri-business, raised need for the massive wave of low-wage immigrant workers and at the same time defined them as the racially "foreign" people who were rendered alien to America, which was defined as the nation of Caucasians. What enabled the American Government and people to attach racialized foreignness to the Mexican immigrants (and, inevitably, American citizens of Mexican origin) were Immigration Acts, border policing, and discriminatory control of visas.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civics & Citizenship    2. Constitutional    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. History    6. History: American    7. Sociology    8. United States - 20th Century    9. 20th century    10. American History    11. American history: from c 1900 -    12. History / United States / 20th Century    13. Immigration & emigration    14. Law    15. Political Science and International Relations    16. USA   

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Fantastic guide to Con Law
I have only the highest praise for Prof. Chemerinsky's Con Law book.Constitutional Law may be the most difficult and abstract course in law school, and this is partially due to casebook treatment of the subject.In Con Law, the philosophical differences between Supreme Court justices are a clear influence on the case holdings.Since philosophical trends change as the Court changes, this force produces theoretical undercurrents which are not adequately covered in the casebook.This book dramatically reduces ambiguities in holdings and treatments by offering good discussion of these philosophical currents within the Court as a supplement to the legal concepts (with historical and political perspective added as well).
Great Treatise
Prof. Chemerinsky's Con Law treatise is simply wonderful. It's very helpful. It's one of my favorite legal treatises (along with Prof. Farnsworth's Contracts). My only criticism: it needs to be updated in some parts.

Con Law review
This book is excellent.My Con Law professor is impossible to understand, and I literally had to teach myself the entire course.I could not have done it without this book.Chemerinsky explains things in a way that is easy to understand and not at all confusing.I highly recommend this book for anyone who has a horrible Con Law professor! ... Read more

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Jim Jones lives...
The issue of how best to govern a nation is of great importance and should be explored through intellectual, logical debate.Dahl's book does not carry the weight this topic deserves because he entirely avoids exposure of the logical constructs from which his conclusions stem.
No example for the world
Dahl's fine book attacks the American Constitution and system of government for each of the following undemocratic features, most of them totally unique to the US among the world's advanced democracies, and all very rare.
A writer unqualified for his declared task
Mr Dahl claims he does not intend to propose changes to the Constitution, but, rather, changes in how we think about it. Since he appears ignorant of his subject, I find him unqualified to suggest either.
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Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. General    3. Government - U.S. Government    4. History & Theory - General    5. Political Science    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Constitution: government & the state    9. Constitutional & administrative law    10. Political Science / History & Theory    11. Political structures: democracy    12. USA   

Editorial Review

According to legal scholar Cass Sunstein, it is not enough to label judges as "liberal" or "conservative" or any other ideological stripe; one must also take into account their approach to constitutional interpretation. In Read more

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Not the best place to look for a balanced view
This book's biggest failure is its assumption that its readers will share the author's own political views.
Sunstein's Wishful Thinking Theory of Constitutional Analysis
I will focus solely on Sunstein's take on the Second Amendment.He supports the so-called "collective rights" theory which a) runs exactly contrary to the plain text of the amendment b) the historical understanding of the courts and c) against the current "standard model" of legal interpretation of the Second Amendment (which is in fact a return to the historical view of the right - an individual right).He ignores the 14th Amendment and incorrectly interprets one of the few modern Second Amendment cases - Miller (which ruled that weapons suitable for military (militia) use ARE protected.Sunstein bends and twists language, precedent and history to yeild his desired interpretation, rather than be informed by the same as to what the writers of the Constitution intended.This way lies madness, where words have no meaning or context and the Constitution is maleable as wax, offering no limits on the government and no protection to the citizens rights.Don't waste your time or money on this book, as the subject of this fiction is politics and not the Constitution.

A fine and educational book, but completely overlooking
This book completely overlooks the very constitutional perogrative, that the power to change the clear meaning of the constitution lies with We The People, and nowhere else.
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Subjects:  1. Courts - General    2. General    3. Government - Judicial Branch    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Judicial power    6. Judicial process    7. Law    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    10. Political Philosophy    11. Political questions and judicial power    12. Politics / Current Events    13. Sociology    14. U.S. Supreme Court    15. United States    16. Constitutional & administrative law    17. Courts & procedure    18. USA   

Subjects:  1. Aliens    2. Asylum, Right of    3. Constitutional    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Emigration and immigration law    6. Great Britain    7. Law    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. English law: immigration law    10. Law / Emigration & Immigration    11. Law | Immigration Law   

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A Useful Book
This is a pretty good book for people concerned about possible deterioration of American civil liberties in the event of further successful 9/11-type attacks. It is almost impossible to amend the U.S. Constitution. So Ackerman proposes laws that could be enacted by Congress and states that would help do this. It should be read in conjunction with Richard Posner's Catastrophe, which makes a case for some curtailment of civil liberties, given the dangers of the age we live in.

A Yale professor impressed with himself
This book spews the progressive line that judges should make laws and run the country.By proposing that war powers be taken over by a group of congress and ruled over by judges, he proposes that we all give up our right to vote and express ourselves to an unelected and unfireable federal judge.More of the same "we know better than you" pablum spewed by the socialist/communist/nambla movement.What is even sadder is that he is a professor of law and influences young minds in this capacity.Save your money.Why pay to read "I am smart and you are not".If so bright why has he never been able to get a real job in the private sector without the cushion of tenure.Buy a latte instead, more satisfying. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Government - General    3. Law and legislation    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism    6. Political Science    7. Political Terrorism    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Terrorism    10. U.S. Federal Legislative Bodies    11. United States    12. War and emergency legislation    13. War on Terrorism, 2001-    14. Civil rights & citizenship    15. Current Events / Political    16. International human rights law    17. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle    18. USA   

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The Proper Role for the Supreme Court
Given all the hoopla about whether the federal courts have exceeded their proper boundaries, including recent threats by House and Senate Republicans to retaliate for the Terri Schiavo decisions, it seems an opportune time to consider what is the appropriate role for the Supreme Court in our democratic pollitical system.Jeffrey Rosen's book should contribute mightily toward that end.Rosen writes as a George Washington University law professor for the law reviews; serves as legal editor of "The New Republic"; and manages to write important articles for general publications, such as his recent article in "The Atlantic" entitled "The Day After Roe."So he is very effective at explaining legal concepts for a general audience, for whom this book is designed.
Advance Praise for The Most Democratic Branch

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Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Courts    3. Government - Judicial Branch    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. History    6. Judges    7. Legal History    8. Legal System    9. Political Science    10. Political questions and judicial power    11. Politics / Current Events    12. Politics/International Relations    13. United States    14. Courts & procedure    15. International Law    16. Law | Constitutional Law    17. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    18. Political Science / Government / Judicial Branch    19. Political structure & processes    20. Political structures: democracy   

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Constitutional    3. Constitutional Law    4. Constitutional history    5. Constitutions    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Political Science    8. Political questions and judici    9. Political questions and judicial power    10. Politics/International Relations    11. U.S. Constitutional History    12. United States    13. Constitutional & administrative law    14. Courts & procedure    15. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Criminal Procedure    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. History & Theory - General    3. Interpretation and construction    4. Judicial process    5. Judicial review    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Political    9. United States    10. Jurisprudence & General Issues    11. Law / Constitutional   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Executive power    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History - U.S.    6. History: American    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal History    9. Political History    10. Slavery    11. United States    12. United States - 19th Century    13. United States - Civil War    14. War and emergency powers    15. History / United States / 19th Century   

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Erroneous Information re John E. Holt
Statement that John E. Holt, an official of the General Services Administration proposed connecting all the goverments computers together in a Network called FEDNET is false. Statement that Vice President Gerald Ford had Holt demoted is also false.
Privacy education even at the gym!
I take your Ben Franklin privacy book to the gym...I can't tell you how many people are intrigued by the title. You can open to any chapter, and still be educated. I love it.
Broad and accurate - a wonderful book
Ben Franklin's Web Site is a wonderful book - clear, detailed, engaging, hype-free. Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. History    3. History / United States / General    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Practical Guides    9. Privacy, Right of    10. United States    11. Computers    12. Social aspects    13. United States - General   

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one of two
I purchased this book in addition to How The U.S. Government Works, by the same author.I was pleased that the books do not talk down to my middle-schoolers, but instead explain in easily-understood terms how it all is supposed to work.This is a good reference book for a 'tween-ager.I keep both books on my homeschool bookshelf and my children have gone back to them several times. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 3-4    3. Constitutional law    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Juvenile Political Science    6. Juvenile literature    7. Social Science - Politics & Government    8. United States    9. Juvenile Nonfiction / Politics & Government   

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For Quick Review This Pocket Guide is very useful
I found this pcoket guide very useful and handy when traying to recall the segments of the US Constitution. It is handy to have during discussions when you need the correct wording of the articles. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's All Ages - Legal Reference    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    3. Constitutional    4. Constitutions    5. History    6. History: American    7. Interpretation and construction    8. Law    9. Reference    10. Social Science - Politics & Government    11. United States    12. United States - General    13. History / United States / General    14. History, American