Constitutional Law History
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Rot and Revival
- The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development
- By: Anthony Michael Kreis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements.
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Rot and Revival
- The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics.
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- By: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-06-21
- Language: English
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered....
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FDR's Gambit
- The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism
- By: Laura Kalman
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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In the past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that crashed and burned in the 1930s: court packing. Today's court packing advocates have run into a wall of opposition, with most citing the 1930s episode as one FDR's greatest failures. In early 1937, Roosevelt—fresh off a landslide victory—stunned the country when he proposed a plan to expand the size of the court by up to six justices.
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FDR's Gambit
- The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-01-23
- Language: English
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In the past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that crashed and burned in the 1930s: court packing....
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- By: Adam Winkler
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations - like minorities and women - have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a 200-year battle....
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
- In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital....
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Closing the Courthouse Door
- How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
- By: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights.
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Closing the Courthouse Door
- How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-01-17
- Language: English
- The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about....
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I Dissent
- Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- By: Mark Tushnet
- Narrated by: Mark Tushnet
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases. Lively and accessible, I Dissent offers a radically fresh view of the judiciary in a collection that is essential listening for anyone interested in American history.
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I Dissent
- Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- Narrated by: Mark Tushnet
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-12-18
- Language: English
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For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases. Lively and accessible, I Dissent offers a radically fresh view of the judiciary in a collection that is essential listening for anyone interested in American history....
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The Majesty of the Law
- Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
- By: Sandra Day O'Connor
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, ideas, and landmark cases, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, exploring through personal observation the evolution of the Court and American democratic traditions.
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The Majesty of the Law
- Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 28-07-04
- Language: English
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In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution.
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Memory and Authority
- The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation
- By: Jack M. Balkin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court's current embrace of originalism is only the most recent example of how lawyers and judges try to use history to establish authority for their positions. Jack M. Balkin argues that fights over constitutional interpretation are often fights over collective memory. Balkin shows how lawyers and judges channel history through standard forms of legal argument that shape how they use history and even what they see in history.
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Memory and Authority
- The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Jack M. Balkin argues that fights over constitutional interpretation are often fights over collective memory. Balkin shows how lawyers and judges channel history through standard forms of legal argument that shape how they use history and even what they see in history.
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The Court v. The Voters
- The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights
- By: Joshua A. Douglas
- Narrated by: Chris Baetens
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Josh Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown and some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have changed our elections, and therefore the nation, irrevocably. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in shaping not only our elections but the very essence of the right to vote.
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The Court v. The Voters
- The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights
- Narrated by: Chris Baetens
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Josh Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown and some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have changed our elections, and therefore the nation, irrevocably....
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- By: Steve Luxenberg
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
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Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal", created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the 19th century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the 21st. Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours - race and equality.
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences....
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Practical Equality
- Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
- By: Robert L. Tsai
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today.
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Practical Equality
- Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today....
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Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?
- By: Mark Golub
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Challenging familiar understandings of race, rights, and American law, Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? explores how current equal-protection law renders the pursuit of racial equality constitutionally suspect.
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Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 31-07-18
- Language: English
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Challenging familiar understandings of race, rights, and American law, Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? explores how current equal-protection law renders the pursuit of racial equality constitutionally suspect....
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
- By: Kevin R.C. Gutzman
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Instead of the system that the Constitution intended, judges have created a system in which bureaucrats and appointed officials make most of the important policies. While the government claims to be a representative republic, somehow hot-button topics from gay marriage to the allocation of Florida's presidential electors always seem to be decided by unelected judges. What gives them the right to decide such issues? The judges say it's the Constitution.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-06-07
- Language: English
- Instead of the system that the Constitution intended, judges have created a system in which bureaucrats and appointed officials make most of the important policies....
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Constitutional Personae
- Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Inalienable Rights)
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Since America's founding, the US Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and best-selling co-author of Nudge, points out, almost every one of the Justices fits into a very small number of types regardless of ideology: the hero, the soldier, the minimalist, and the mute.
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Constitutional Personae
- Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Inalienable Rights)
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-11-19
- Language: English
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Since America's founding, the US Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects....
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Democracy and Equality
- The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (Inalienable Rights Series)
- By: Geoffrey R. Stone, David A. Strauss
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren Court declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority....
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Democracy and Equality
- The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (Inalienable Rights Series)
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law....
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The Blessings of Liberty
- A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States
- By: Michael Les Benedict
- Narrated by: Larry Wayne
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
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This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time in defining the powers of government and the rights of individuals and minorities. He covers important trends and events in US constitutional history, encompassing key Supreme Court and lower-court cases.
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The Blessings of Liberty
- A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States
- Narrated by: Larry Wayne
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-08-18
- Language: English
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This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time....
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Meech Lake Accord
- Patriation & Canadian Constitutional Law
- By: Deaver Brown
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 57 mins
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The failure of the Meech Lake Accord to be enacted was the final stumble in the French English divide in Canada that has run from the founding of British & French Canada in the 17th Century until today. It was indicative of the struggle that the Accord was passed by the politicians but voted down by the voters. A later version was similarly roundly voted down across Canada.
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Meech Lake Accord
- Patriation & Canadian Constitutional Law
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 15-12-11
- Language: English
- The failure of the Meech Lake Accord to be enacted was the final stumble in the French English divide in Canada that has run from the founding of British & French Canada in the 17th Century until today....
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Federalist No. 74
- The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning Power of the Executive
- By: Alexander Hamilton
- Narrated by: D. S. Harvey
- Length: 8 mins
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The Federalist Papers is a series of 85 articles arguing in favor of ratification of the United States Constitution by the 13 original colonies. Federalist No. 74 discusses the powers of the president as commander-in-chief and to grant pardons and reprieves. Hamilton asserts that the role of commander-in-chief is inherent in the office itself and requires the speed and resolve of a single decision-maker.
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Federalist No. 74
- The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning Power of the Executive
- Narrated by: D. S. Harvey
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 09-01-21
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers is a series of 85 articles arguing in favor of ratification of the United States Constitution by the 13 original colonies. Federalist No. 74 discusses the powers of the president as commander-in-chief and to grant pardons and reprieves....
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