The Odd Clauses
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Author |
: Jay Wexler |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2012-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807000892 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807000892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Odd Clauses by : Jay Wexler
An innovative, insightful, often humorous look at the Constitution’’s lesser-known clauses, offering a fresh perspective on the document’s relevance today For a variety of reasons, many of the Constitution’s more obscure passages never make it to any court and therefore never make headlines or even law school classrooms, which teach from judicial decisions. In this captivating and witty book, Jay Wexler draws on his extensive professional and educational backgrounds in constitutional law to demonstrate how these “odd clauses” have incredible relevance to our lives, our government’s structure, and the integrity of our democracy.
Author |
: Ellis M. West |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739146785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739146781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment by : Ellis M. West
Were the religion clauses of the First Amendment intended to protect individuals' right to religious freedom and equality or the states' traditional right to legislate on religion? This book examines all the arguments and historical evidence relating to this question, and demonstrates, contrary to the views of some scholars and Supreme Court justices, that the clauses were sought, drafted, and originally understood not as guarantees of states' rights but as normative restraints on the national government's power over religion.
Author |
: Ray Raphael |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2016-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525433965 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525433961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The U.S. Constitution: The Citizen's Annotated Edition by : Ray Raphael
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection As Khizr Khan dramatically demonstrated at this year’s Democratic National Convention, the U.S. Constitution is the central point of reference in our political debates—the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics as diverse and galvanizing as immigration, gun ownership, voting rights, taxation, policing, and war. It dictates the structure and workings of our government; it sets forth our rights as citizens and, as such, shapes the parameters of our lives. Presidents come and go, but the Constitution remains the supreme law of the land. In this essential edition, acclaimed historian Ray Raphael guides us through the Constitution clause by clause and amendment by amendment, illuminating the origins of its content, the intentions of its framers, its evolution throughout the centuries, and its meaning today. Thoughtful and nuanced, lively and highly readable, this Constitution is for all of us to read and refer to—the ultimate political fact-checking source for every American. An ebook short
Author |
: Line Mikkelsen |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2005-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027294135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027294135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Copular Clauses by : Line Mikkelsen
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses — one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit — but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.
Author |
: Garrett Epps |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2013-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199974740 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199974748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Epic by : Garrett Epps
"The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. . Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"--
Author |
: Bas Aarts |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 475 |
Release |
: 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107016354 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107016355 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Verb Phrase in English by : Bas Aarts
This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.
Author |
: Nicholas D. Evans |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 864 |
Release |
: 2011-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110873733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110873737 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Kayardild by : Nicholas D. Evans
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author |
: Kaplan Test Prep |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 857 |
Release |
: 2016-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506210179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506210171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis ACT Premier 2016-2017 with 8 Practice Tests by : Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep is the Official Partner for Live, Online Prep for the ACT. For more information visit kaptest.com/onlinepreplive Kaplan’s comprehensive ACT program provides proven test-taking strategies, realistic practice tests, in-depth guided practice, video tutorials, and access to an online center so that you can score higher on the ACT. College becomes more competitive and costly each year, making a high score on the ACT essential. A high ACT score sets you apart from the competition and opens up scholarship opportunities. Kaplan understands how important it is for you to do well on the ACT and make your college dreams a reality. In fact, we help more than 95% of our students get into their top-choice school every year, and we want to help you! ACT Premier 2016-2017 is an unique resource that covers every concept on the test, and provides you with the additional practice you need both in the book and online. This comprehensive study guide includes: * Realistic Practice: eight full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations: 3 in the book, 5 online * Online Center: online practice tests, quizzes, and videos to help guide your study. * SmartPoints: a Kaplan-exclusive strategy that identifies the most popular topics and question types on the exam, allowing you to focus your time appropriately and earn the most points on Test Day. * Scoring and Analysis for 1 Official ACT Test. * Perfect Score Tips: advice and strategies from students who got a perfect score and top ACT instructors. * Video Tutorials: Kaplan's best tutors review the most important concepts in short video tutorials. When you study with ACT Premier 2016-2017, you will score higher on Test Day.
Author |
: Ilan Wurman |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108843157 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108843158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Second Founding by : Ilan Wurman
In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment, Ilan Wurman provides an illuminating introduction to the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's famous provisions 'due process of law,' 'equal protection of the laws,' and the 'privileges' or 'immunities' of citizenship. He begins by exploring the antebellum legal meanings of these concepts, starting from Magna Carta, the Statutes of Edward III, and the Petition of Right to William Blackstone and antebellum state court cases. The book then traces how these concepts solved historical problems confronting framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, including the comity rights of free blacks, private violence and the denial of the protection of the laws, and the notorious abridgment of freedmen's rights in the Black Codes. Wurman makes a compelling case that, if the modern originalist Supreme Court interpreted the Amendment in 'the language of the law,' it would lead to surprising and desirable results today.
Author |
: Kaplan Test Prep |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2016-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506209050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150620905X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis ACT English, Reading, & Writing Prep by : Kaplan Test Prep
Provides strategies for preparing for the English, reading, and writing sections on the ACT and includes over five hundred practice questions with detailed answer explanations.