Looking For Rights In All The Wrong Places
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Looking For Rights In All The Wrong Places
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Author : Emily Zackin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-21
Looking For Rights In All The Wrong Places written by Emily Zackin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-21 with Law categories.
Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.
Looking For Votes In All The Wrong Places
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Author : Rick Ridder
language : en
Publisher: Radius Book Group+ORM
Release Date : 2016-11-08
Looking For Votes In All The Wrong Places written by Rick Ridder and has been published by Radius Book Group+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Humor categories.
The veteran presidential campaign manager recounts his many adventures, travesties, triumphs, and lessons from more than forty years on the trail. Over his long and legendary career, campaign strategist Rick Ridder has been at the center of everything from presidential death matches to the legalization of marijuana. In this lively memoir, he recounts his life on the trail from the McGovern campaign to more recent candidates and causes. Along the way, he reveals his “twenty-two rules of campaign management”―each one illustrated by entertaining, instructive, and mostly true stories from his own experiences. Rick offers an unsparing, often hilarious self-portrait of the political guru as a young man, criss-crossing the country from one drafty campaign headquarters to the next, making mistakes and pulling rabbits out of hats, wrangling temperamental celebrities, winning some elections and losing others. Through his stories, you’ll meet the state legislature candidate who said he’d win thanks to his reputation as a judge in cat competitions; the US Senate candidate who told the Southern press, “I hate southern accents”; a young Senator Al Gore who campaigned for President in 1988 by eating his way through New York City alongside Mayor Koch; Leonard Nimoy, good-naturedly trekking through rural Wisconsin in Rick’s own Jeep because Rick was too young to rent a more appropriate vehicle; and many other colorful characters.
Looking For Law In All The Wrong Places
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Author : Marianne Constable
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2019-03-05
Looking For Law In All The Wrong Places written by Marianne Constable and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with Law categories.
For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places brings together essays by leading scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, history, law, literature, political science, race and ethnic studies, religion, and rhetoric, to look at law from the standpoint of the humanities. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of distinct cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture. Many essays in this volume look for law precisely in the kinds of “wrong places” where there appears to be no law. They find in these places not only reflections and remains of law, but also rules and practices that seem indistinguishable from law and raise challenging questions about the locations of law and about law’s meaning and function. Other essays do the opposite: rather than looking for law in places where law does not obviously appear, they look in statute books and courtrooms from perspectives that are usually presumed to have nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways, or upside down, or inside out defamiliarizes law. These essays show what legal understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly proper domain. Contributors: Kathryn Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Wendy Brown, Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir, Daniel Fisher, Sara Ludin, Saba Mahmood, Rebecca McLennan, Ramona Naddaff, Beth Piatote, Sarah Song, Christopher Tomlins, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner
Hidden Laws
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Author : Robinson Woodward-Burns
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-29
Hidden Laws written by Robinson Woodward-Burns and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with Political Science categories.
How state constitutional reform guides and stabilizes American constitutional and political development State constitution reform guides and stabilizes American constitutional and political development. Using data sets and historical case studies, Robinson Woodward†‘Burns shows how the federal government has repeatedly deferred to state constitutional reform to manage or address difficult national constitutional controversies, including conflicts over the regulation of slavery, banking and taxation, women’s suffrage, labor and welfare rights, voting and civil rights, and gender discrimination.
Harvard Law Review Volume 127 Number 5 March 2014
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Author : Harvard Law Review
language : en
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Release Date : 2014-03-10
Harvard Law Review Volume 127 Number 5 March 2014 written by Harvard Law Review and has been published by Quid Pro Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with Law categories.
The March 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 5) features the following articles and review essays: * Article, "The Puzzling Presumption of Reviewability," Nicholas Bagley * Book Review, "Making the Modern Family: Interracial Intimacy and the Social Production of Whiteness," Camille Gear Rich * Book Review, "The Case for Religious Exemptions — Whether Religion Is Special or Not," Mark L. Rienzi * Book Review, "Courts as Change Agents: Do We Want More — Or Less?," Jeffrey S. Sutton * Note, "Improving Relief from Abusive Debt Collection Practices" In addition, student case notes explore Recent Cases on such diverse subjects as standing in increased-risk lawsuits, concealed carry permits, free speech and wedding photography, customary international law, and class action tolling in securities cases, as well as Recent Legislation involving domestic violence and Native American tribal jurisdiction. Finally, the issue includes several summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, active URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Number 5 (Mar. 2014) include scholarly essays by leading academic figures, as well as substantial student research. The Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions.
Troublemakers
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Author : Kathryn Schumaker
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Troublemakers written by Kathryn Schumaker and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with History categories.
A powerful history of student protests and student rights during the desegregation era In the late 1960s, protests led by students roiled high schools across the country. As school desegregation finally took place on a wide scale, students of color were particularly vocal in contesting the racial discrimination they saw in school policies and practices. And yet, these young people had no legal right to express dissent at school. It was not until 1969 that the Supreme Court would recognize the First Amendment rights of students in the landmark Tinker v. Des Moines case. A series of students’ rights lawsuits in the desegregation era challenged everything from school curricula to disciplinary policies. But in casting students as “troublemakers” or as “culturally deficient,” school authorities and other experts persuaded the courts to set limits on rights protections that made students of color disproportionately vulnerable to suspension and expulsion. Troublemakers traces the history of black and Chicano student protests from small-town Mississippi to metropolitan Denver and beyond, showcasing the stories of individual protesters and demonstrating how their actions contributed to the eventual recognition of the constitutional rights of all students. Offering a fresh interpretation of this pivotal era, Troublemakers shows that when black and Chicano teenagers challenged racial discrimination in American public schools, they helped remake American constitutional law and establish protections of free speech, due process, equal protection, and privacy for students.
Governing States And Localities
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Author : Kevin B. Smith
language : en
Publisher: CQ Press
Release Date : 2016-11-30
Governing States And Localities written by Kevin B. Smith and has been published by CQ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with Political Science categories.
The partisan and ideological polarization associated with federal government plagues states and localities too, bringing with it significant implications for public policy and intergovernmental relations. The trusted and proven Governing States and Localities guides students through these issues and continues its focus on the role economic and budget pressures play. With their engaging journalistic writing and crisp storytelling, Kevin B. Smith and Alan Greenblatt employ a comparative approach to explain how and why states and localities are both similar and different in institutional structure, culture, history, economy, geography, and demographics. A great blend of high-quality academic analysis and the latest scholarship, the Sixth Edition is thoroughly updated to account for such major developments as state vs. federal conflicts over immigration reform, gun control, and voter rights; health and education reforms aimed at improving the effectiveness of state and local government service delivery; and the lingering effects of the Great Recession.
People Get Ready
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Author : Robert W. McChesney
language : en
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Release Date : 2016-03-08
People Get Ready written by Robert W. McChesney and has been published by Bold Type Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Political Science categories.
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour -- or its greatest moment The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent stagnation, when the labor market is in decrepit shape, with declining wages, expanding poverty, and scorching inequality. Only the dramatic democratization of our economy can address the existential challenges we now face. Yet, the US political process is so dominated by billionaires and corporate special interests, by corruption and monopoly, that it stymies not just democracy but progress. The great challenge of these times is to ensure that the tremendous benefits of technological progress are employed to serve the whole of humanity, rather than to enrich the wealthy few. Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols argue that the United States needs a new economy in which revolutionary technologies are applied to effectively address environmental and social problems and used to rejuvenate and extend democratic institutions. Based on intense reporting, rich historical analysis, and deep understanding of the technological and social changes that are unfolding, they propose a bold strategy for democratizing our digital destiny -- before it's too late -- and unleashing the real power of the Internet, and of humanity.
Yale Law Journal Volume 123 Number 5 March 2014
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Author : Yale Law Journal
language : en
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Yale Law Journal Volume 123 Number 5 March 2014 written by Yale Law Journal and has been published by Quid Pro Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Law categories.
The March 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. The contents for Volume 123, Number 5, include: Articles: • The New Minimal Cities, by Michelle Wilde Anderson • The Separation of Funds and Managers: A Theory of Investment Fund Structure and Regulation, by John Morley Essays: • The Moral Impact Theory of Law, by Mark Greenberg • Pretrial Detention and the Right to Be Monitored, by Samuel R. Wiseman Notes: • Stop Ignoring Pork and Potholes: Election Law and Constituent Service, by Joshua Bone • An Offense-Severity Model for Stop-and-Frisks, by David Keenan & Tina M. Thomas • Open Carry for All: Heller and Our Nineteenth-Century Second Amendment, by Jonathan Meltzer • Regulating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: The California Approach, Its Limitations, and Potential Alternatives, by Jacob M. Victor Comments: • In Need of Correction: How the Army Board for Correction of Military Records Is Failing Veterans with PTSD, by Rebecca Izzo • Let the Burden Fit the Crime: Extending Proportionality Review to Sex Offenders, by Erin Miller Quality ebook edition features linked notes, active Contents, active URLs in notes, and full presentation of original tables and images.
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing
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Author : Rosalind Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-08
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing written by Rosalind Dixon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-08 with Law categories.
Law is fast globalizing as a field, and many lawyers, judges and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative "borrowing". But this new form of legal globalization has darksides: it is not just a source of inspiration for those seeking to strengthen and improve democratic institutions and policies. It is increasingly an inspiration - and legitimation device - for those seeking to erode democracy by stealth, under the guise of a form of faux liberal democratic cover. Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal globalization and the subversion of liberal democracy outlines this phenomenon, how it succeeds, and what we can do to prevent it. This book address current patterns of democratic retrenchment and explores its multiple variants and technologies, considering the role of legitimating ideologies that help support different modes of abusive constitutionalism. An important contribution to both legal and political scholarship, this book will of interest to all those working in the legal and political disciplines of public law, constitutional theory, political theory, and political science.