Active Liberty
Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
This book,
based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term “active liberty” as a sharing of the nation’s sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to...
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Active Liberty
Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
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...
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Active Liberty
Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $24.95
This book,
based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term “active liberty” as a sharing of the nation’s sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to...
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The Federalist Papers
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $7.99
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Originally published anonymously,
The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments...
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