Federal Jurisdiction category: 95 books
Defending the Filibuster, Revised and Updated Edition
The Soul of the Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Many argue that the Senate filibuster is undemocratic or even unconstitutional. Recent legislative disputes have brought criticism of Senate rules into sharp relief, and demands for abolition or reform of the filibuster have increased. In Defending the Filibuster, a veteran Senate aide and a former...
Unjust by Design
Canada’s Administrative Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch “judicial” tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious,...
War and the Rogue Presidency
Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
In War and the Rogue Presidency, Ivan Eland shows that almost immediately after the nation's founding, starting with the first presidency of George Washington, the executive's role in defense and foreign policy began expanding past what the framers of the Constitution had envisioned. The Constitution...
The Essential Writings of President Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom, Congressional Government, George Washington, Essays, Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union Addresses, Presidential Decisions and Biography of Woodrow Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of the essential writings of President Woodrow Wilson. Content: Essays: The New Freedom When A Man Comes To Himself The Study of Administration Leaders of Men The New Democracy Inaugural Addresses: First Inaugural Address Second Inaugural...
The U.S. Drug Policy Landscape
Insights and Opportunities for Improving the View
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Discussions about reducing the harms associated with drug use and antidrug policies are often politicized, infused with questionable data, and unproductive. This paper provides a nonpartisan primer on drug use and drug policy in the United States. It aims to bring those new to drug policy up to speed...
Romanic Depression
How the Jesuits Designed, Built and Destroyed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Author and researcher Sean Maclaren presents the first in a four-part series that reveals how the nearly 500-year-old Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, have designed, built and destroyed the United States of America. Using examples from all sectors of society, Maclaren also details the mechanisms...
by Francesco Parisi, Vincy Fon
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
The Economics of Lawmaking explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law. Professors Francesco Parisi and Vincy Fon view the sources of law through a law and economics lens, and consider the important issue of institutional design in lawmaking. They consider the respective...
Battle For The Marble Palace
Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in American history. The escalating war in Vietnam, the riots during the Democratic Convention, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy left a scar on the national consciousness. But one great battle that took place during this time...
Government Contract Law
The Deskbook for Procurement Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This fourth edition of the ABA's revisions to the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School's Contract Law Deskbook, includes updates to references, new chapters (which do not appear in the JAG School's version) as well as chapter revisions that include material that is useful to contractor...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The size and complexity of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) is dramatically different today than it was only two decades ago. Whereas the USBP was traditionally focused on enforcement...
Coordinating the Criminal Justice System
A Guide to Improve the Effective Administration of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
This guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function. It may also be of special interest to citizens and public...
ABCs of Arbitrage
Tax Rules for Investment of Bond Proceeds By Municipalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The 2018 Edition of this best-seller is updated, expanded, and will help readers master both the most basic and complicated aspects of the subject by translating the complex issues of arbitrage into concise, practical language. This book will help readers gain a clearer understanding of the rules...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Clean Air Act remains one of the most significant and complex pieces of environmental legislation in the country's history. Since its inception, the Clean Air Act has arguably had a greater impact on the lives of Americans than any other environmental statute, and it promises to continue this...
Judicial Fortitude
The Last Chance to Rein In the Administrative State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In this book, Peter J. Wallison argues that the administrative agencies of the executive branch have gradually taken over the legislative role of Congress, resulting in what many call the administrative state. The judiciary bears the major responsibility for this development because it has failed...