Perhaps you know of someone who does not believe the Savior’s promise of a beautiful, abundant life if we but follow Him. Do you believe Him? Do you know what it means to be alive in Christ?You can have peace in this life as well as in the life to come. This outstanding book can teach you how to overcome the world and achieve the glorious life that Jesus Christ has promised us. It can show you how to put off the natural man, become a new creature, and be alive in Christ.The...

Author Thomas Holton Tom Holton on the Scriptural Mormonism Podcast Listen to Tom Holton on the Latter-day Lights Podcast SpiritualWakefulness Discussion - Tom Holton andMeghan Farner Tom Holton on The Clean Library Podcast Is perfection really possible? Our Savior has promised that perfection is not only possible but achievable in and through Him. He sincerely offers us eternal perfection through His love. Everything he does is to help us achieve perfection.In this culminating work, which...

Can you see yourself through the Savior’s eyes? Have you been inspired by His loving perspective? There is no greater love than that of God and His Son. This love overwhelms, astonishes, comforts, and embraces each one of us. When we open our souls to this infinite affection and come to see ourselves through the Lord’s divine sight, we will be uplifted, comforted, and transformed. In this insightful and reverent companion to Alive in Christ, author Thomas Holton uses the symbolism of a see...

The classical concept ofInternationalLa w, as developed by Gentilis, Gro tius and their successors, accepted as its starting point the sovereignty of states, from which it followed that (r) the rules of International Law were based upon the general consent of those states; and (2) that, since state sovereignty was not capable of limitation, otherwise than by the consent of the state itself, in the last resort, International Law must accept the fact of war. Two world wars within the space o...

A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means recognizing the changing needs and demands of the populace. Indeed, the Constitution’s lastin...

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the power of the courts but by decreasing it. In Weak Courts, Strong Rights, Mark Tushnet us...

This book provides a critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States' Constitution. It is organised around two themes: Firstly, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. These characteristics have made constitutional 'interpretation', especially by the US Supreme Court, the primary mechanism for adapting the Constitution to ever-changing reality. Secondly, the Constitution creates a structure of political opportunities that allows political ac...

In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and whether we accept those assumptions 225 years later. In Framed, Levinson challenges our belief that the most important features of our constitutions concern wha...

American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs close textual reading, historical analysis, and political and economic theory to urge a return...

In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many Democrats thought he was betraying the principles of the New Deal and the Great Society. Mark Tushnet argues that Clinton was stating an observed fact: the emergence of a new constitutional order in which the aspiration to achieve justice directly through law has been substantially chastened....

This book examines the application of treaties by domestic courts in twelve countries. The central question is whether domestic courts actually provide remedies to private parties who are harmed by a violation of their treaty-based rights. The analysis shows that domestic courts in eight of the twelve countries - Australia, Canada, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, and the United Kingdom - generally do enforce treaty-based rights on behalf of private parties. On the ot...

A translation from Spanish to English of the latest Constitution of Bolivia enacted on February 2009 by President Evo Morales Ayma. The translation was conducted by Bolivian legal translator Luis Francisco Valle Velasco.