Amer Constitutnl Law, V1 7e - Softcover

TARR; ROSSUM

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495007528 ISBN 13: 9780495007524

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

AMERICAN CONSITITUTIONAL LAW provides a comprehensive account of the nation's defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, the text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish. Each volume examines the interpretations of a variety of sources, including the founding generation, the Supreme Court, lower federal courts and state judiciaries, and extrajudicial materials of constitutional significance (such as Congressional acts and resolutions). Volume I focuses on federal rights and powers, and is appropriate for the first semester in the two-semester course sequence in Constitutional Law. Volume II focuses on individuals' rights and responsibilities and is appropriate for the second semester in the two-semester course sequence in Constitutional Law, commonly called Civil Rights and Liberties.

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Críticas

"An excellent two-volume Constitutional Law case book with sophisticated introductions." "Its greatest strengths are threefold. First, the case excerpts are ideal for undergraduate students who are being exposed to the reading of case law for the first time and who are not familiar with legal nomenclature The second great virtue of the book is that the introductory sections of each chapter, which precede the case law, succinctly summarize the law, history, and politics related to the cases that students are about to encounter. These introductions do an excellent job setting the context for the case law The third great virtue of the R & T text is that the editors do as good a job as any constitutional law text tying the case law to what the framers of the constitutional provisions at issue had to say. This allows students to understand the original meaning of the Constitution in a way they might seldom appreciate with other textbooks that disregard or object to such approaches to constitutional law."

Reseña del editor

Rossum (Claremont McKenna College) and Tarr (Rutgers U.) combine textual explanation with examples of case law precedents and related commentary in the first of two volumes introducing American constitutional law. The volume deals with the structure of government as provided for in the main body of the US Constitution, along with attendant issues.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495007528
• ISBN 13: 9780495007524
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 609
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar