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Drawn & Quarterly
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2020.
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First edition.
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118 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In 'Masterpiece Comics', he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth-century comics. With 'Terms and Conditions', he made the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and no one reads, readable. He employs his magic yet again to investigate the very framework of the country with 'Constitution Illustrated'. By visually interpreting the complete text of the supreme law of the land...
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"In The Constitution, constitutional scholar Michael Stokes Paulsen and his son Luke provide a clear, accessible introduction to the history and meaning of this historic document. Beginning with the Constitution's birth in 1787, Paulsen and Paulsen offer a grand tour of its history and interpretations, introducing readers to the characters and controversies that have shaped this founding instrument in the 200-plus years since its creation. In order...
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Sotirios A. Barber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of On What the Constitution Means and The Constitution of Judicial Power, and coeditor of Constitutional Politics (Princeton).
Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship...
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The America we love is under siege from the progressive movement. Progressives want to tear down traditional American values and banish our Constitution. Why would they want to do this when Americans have historically enjoyed the most personal opportunity, the most personal freedom, the best standard of living and the best personal safety in the entire world? Traditional American values and governance under the existing Constitution do not allow progressives...
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A partir de abril de 2021, una convención constituyente redactará una nueva Constitución para Chile, la que luego será presentada a la ciudadanía para que en un plebiscito se decida su aprobación. Serán muchos los temas a discutir, entre ellos, el régimen de gobierno, la organización política del Estado y, más en general, los contornos del tipo de país que se quiere construir.
Este libro, en un momento crucial de la historia de Chile,...
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A thorough analysis of the early history and development of judicial review, this is one of the most cited and highly regarded texts on law and government. Author Charles A. Beard ranks among the twentieth century's preeminent judicial and constitutional scholars. His enlightening and accessible survey examines the U.S. high court's role in interpreting and enforcing the laws of the country's framing documents. It addresses the controversies surrounding...
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"Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. ... If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union: but we shall have saved it, as to make, and keep it, forever worthy of the saving." – Abraham Lincoln
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The Second Amendment to the Constitution, a protection of the ownership of firearms, has become the source of heated controversy in recent years. Learn about the Founders' views on this important freedom and their solutions for averting the plague of violence that has disrupted communications.
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En contra de la triunfalista propaganda oficial, el Régimen político surgido de la Transición es en realidad una democracia de muy baja calidad, un sistema de acceso restringido dominado por los privilegios, la corrupción, el caciquismo, el intercambio de favores y las barreras a la participación, encontrándose actualmente en avanzado proceso de descomposición. Esta es la tesis que mantienen Javier Benegas y Juan M. Blanco en un trascendente...
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En este libro, el autor analiza lo que considera el principal problema político de México: la contradicción irresoluble entre las reglas de gobierno impuestas después de la Revolución con las modificaciones constitucionales que habilitaron el autoritarismo y el sistema presidencialista, y la apertura obligada por la crisis económica y política de 1995, que llevó al partido hegemónico a pactar una transición democrática hacia un régimen...
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With the aim to awaken and prepare secular masses to rise to the occasion so as to save this sovereign democratic socialist republic from being shipped into the clutches of communal forces, the book present the now strengthening communal forces still able to drive a whirlwind across the country and their attacks on various walks of Indian life. New constitutional debates are well discussed for journalists, citizens, scholars, and statesmen.
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Chile está enfrentado a un proceso constituyente que genera muchas expectativas, pero también muchas inquietudes. El proceso constituyente en 138 preguntas y respuestas es una herramienta de estudio y debate, escrito de la manera más simple y directa, en base a las preguntas más frecuentes que se han generado en los cabildos y asambleas ciudadanas, con el fi n de entregarle instrumentos de discernimiento al único soberano,el pueblo de Chile:...
15) Wall of Misconception: Does the Separation of Church and State Mean the Separation of God and Govt
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The "wall of separation between church and state" is a phrase not found anywhere in the Constitution, but activist judges have recklessly used that phrase to stamp out public religious expression. We are restricted from praying in public schools, the Ten Commandments and other religious symbols have been stripped from public buildings, and the term "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has been called "unconstitutional". Dr. Peter Lillback exposes...
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To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott Douglas Gerber here argues that the Constitution of the United States should be interpreted in light of the natural rights political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that the Supreme Court is the institution of American government that should be primarily responsible for identifying and applying that philosophy in...
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The UK's decision to leave the EU has opened up huge existential questions for Northern Ireland as it marks its centenary. Constitutional conflict in Northern Ireland had been regarded as largely resolved and settled, but Brexit has altered the wider constitutional framework within which the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is situated. With the question of Irish unity gaining renewed and sustained traction, and with trade, relationships and politics across...
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How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution explores the fundamental shift in political and economic thought of the Progressive Era and how the Supreme Court was used to transform the Constitution into one that reflected the ideas of their own time, while undermining America's founding principles. Epstein examines key decisions to demonstrate how Progressives attacked much of the legal precedent and eventually weakened the Court's thinking concerning...
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La lecture des Constitutions arabes -de leur lettre comme de leur pratique- par le biais du pluralisme juridique permet de comprendre la nature et la portée des transformations qui sont à l'œuvre dans ces États, tant ceux qui restent essentiellement attachés à des valeurs traditionnelles que les plus avancés dans les processus de démocratisation et de protection des droits fondamentaux.
20) Surgimiento de la dualidad de jurisdicciones en Colombia. Entre la regeneración, la dictadura y l
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Esta obra recoge las principales ideas que fundamentan la consagración de un tribunal administrativo, hace referencia a la historia comparada de las principales constituciones del continente, y analiza las fuentes primarias y más autorizadas sobre el contexto y el desarrollo normativo que dio vida a la dualidad de jurisdicciones en Colombia y su estabilización hasta 1913. Así mismo, el autor presenta algunos datos cuantitativos que demostrarán...
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