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Constitutional Thinking eBook Series

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  • States of Union

    Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order

    by Mark E. Brandon ...
    Series series Constitutional Thinking
    Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn two canonical decisions of the 1920s—Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters—the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution’s protective umbrella. Since then, proponents of “family values” have claimed that a timeless form of family—nuclear and biological—is crucial to the ... Read more

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  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Read more

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  • A Tolerable Anarchy

    by Jedediah Purdy ...
    In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Sex and the Constitution

    Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century

    by Geoffrey R. Stone ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA “volume of lasting significance” that illuminates how the clash between sex and religion has defined our nation’s history (Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University).Lauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Conscience of the Constitution

    The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty

    by Timothy Sandefur ...
    The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence–that has led to the growth of government ... Read more

    $11.69 CAD

  • American Reformers, 1815–1860

    by Ronald G. Walters ...
    A revised edition of the "clear, readable, and persuasive account of [antebellum reform movements'] important impact on American society" (James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom).For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped ... Read more

    $15.83 CAD

  • The Myth of American Religious Freedom

    by David Sehat ...
    In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral ... Read more

    $16.55 CAD

  • The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution

    A Guide for Christians to Understand America's Constitutional Crisis

    by Jenna Ellis Esq. ...
    America is in the midst of a cultural and constitutional law crisis that began more than sixty years ago and was further exacerbated by the 2015 Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision. How did we become a culture that lacks objective morality and embraces secular ideas, hinging on the majority whim of nine justices? How do we get back to being a biblically moral, upright society and recognizing ... Read more

    $7.28 CAD

  • Constitutional Fate

    Theory of the Constitution

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. ... Read more

    $52.55 CAD

  • Liberty of Conscience

    In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

    by Martha Nussbaum ...
    In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • America's Death Penalty

    Between Past and Present

    Edited by David Garland, Randall McGowen, Michael Meranze ...
    Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate tool of punishment. The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in our public life and ... Read more

    $29.60 CAD

  • Cosmic Constitutional Theory

    Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

    by J. Harvie Wilkinson, III ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging ... Read more

    $36.71 CAD