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"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution's protections...
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Stanford University Press
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English
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"In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of...
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Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition, December 2020.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When she was fifteen years old, Heidi Schreck started traveling the country, taking part in constitutional debates to earn money for her college tuition. Decades later, in What the Constitution Means to Me, she traces the effect that the Constitution has had on four generations of women in her family, deftly examining how the United States' founding principles are inextricably linked with our personal lives.
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Modern Library pbk. ed., 1st ed.
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x, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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In 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so recently deposed. A truly national government was needed, one that could raise money, regulate commerce, and defend the states against foreign threats–without becoming as overbearing as England. So thirty-six-year-old James Madison believed. That...
10) Bill of Rights
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Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
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48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Explores the rights guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution, why that Bill of Rights was considered necessary, and how it formed the basis of similar documents in the United States and abroad.
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English
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In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old...
15) The Vote
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
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Available exclusively from Grolier Educational Corp
Pub. Date
c1987
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xii, 115 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Presents brief biographies of the men who signed the Constitution and the nonsigning delegates and describes the membership of the Convention's committees.
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
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1st ed.
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xxi, 214 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Throughout her long career of "afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted," the cause closest to Molly Ivins's heart was protecting the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we're living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can be held in prison without even knowing the charges against us, and when our constitutional rights are being interpreted by a president who calls himself "The Decider." Ivins...
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The writers of the US Constitution called for federal courts to judge cases according to the Constitution and the laws passed by Congress. Article III empowers the Supreme Court and federal courts to judge controversies between different states and their citizens. In this important and fascinating volume, readers will learn about the ways the US court system helps balance governmental powers as well as protects the rights of citizens. Modern and...
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