Author: James Brown Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations
Author: James Brown Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939
Author: Mark W. Janis
Publisher: OUP UK
ISBN: 0199579342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book narrates the important role that international law has played in America and the crucial if complex story of America's place in promoting and frustrating international law. Based on the stories of key figures in American history and written in an accessible style, it is a must read for anyone interested in America's place in the world.
Publisher: OUP UK
ISBN: 0199579342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book narrates the important role that international law has played in America and the crucial if complex story of America's place in promoting and frustrating international law. Based on the stories of key figures in American history and written in an accessible style, it is a must read for anyone interested in America's place in the world.
James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations
Author: James Brown Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522207771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
"Hardcover reprint of the original 1918 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9"". All foldouts have been masterfully reprinted in their original form. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Scott, James Brown. James Madison's Notes Of Debates In The Federal Convention Of 1787 And Their Relation To A More Perfect Society Of Nations. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Scott, James Brown. James Madison's Notes Of Debates In The Federal Convention Of 1787 And Their Relation To A More Perfect Society Of Nations, . New York, Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1918. Subject: Madison, James, 1751836"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522207771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
"Hardcover reprint of the original 1918 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9"". All foldouts have been masterfully reprinted in their original form. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Scott, James Brown. James Madison's Notes Of Debates In The Federal Convention Of 1787 And Their Relation To A More Perfect Society Of Nations. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Scott, James Brown. James Madison's Notes Of Debates In The Federal Convention Of 1787 And Their Relation To A More Perfect Society Of Nations, . New York, Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1918. Subject: Madison, James, 1751836"
Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations
Author: Paolo Amorosa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192589040
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria. Far from being an antiquarian assertion, the Spanish origin narrative placed the inception of international law in the context of the discovery of America, rather than in the European wars of religion. The recognition of equal rights to the American natives by Vitoria was the pedigree on which Scott built a progressive international law, responsive to the rise of the United States as the leading global power and developments in international organization such as the creation of the League of Nations. This book describes the Spanish origin project in context, relying on Scott's biography, changes in the self-understanding of the international legal profession, as well as on larger social and political trends in US and global history. Keeping in mind Vitoria's persisting role as a key figure in the canon of international legal history, the book sheds light on the contingency of shared assumptions about the discipline and their unspoken implications. The legacy of the international law Scott developed for the American century is still with the profession today, in the shape of the normalization and de-politicization of rights language and of key concepts like equality and rule of law.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192589040
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria. Far from being an antiquarian assertion, the Spanish origin narrative placed the inception of international law in the context of the discovery of America, rather than in the European wars of religion. The recognition of equal rights to the American natives by Vitoria was the pedigree on which Scott built a progressive international law, responsive to the rise of the United States as the leading global power and developments in international organization such as the creation of the League of Nations. This book describes the Spanish origin project in context, relying on Scott's biography, changes in the self-understanding of the international legal profession, as well as on larger social and political trends in US and global history. Keeping in mind Vitoria's persisting role as a key figure in the canon of international legal history, the book sheds light on the contingency of shared assumptions about the discipline and their unspoken implications. The legacy of the international law Scott developed for the American century is still with the profession today, in the shape of the normalization and de-politicization of rights language and of key concepts like equality and rule of law.
Historical Outlook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Periodical
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Congress of the United States: a Bibliographical List
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
American Treasures
Author: Stephen Puleo
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466872748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Stephen Puleo's American Treasures is a narrative history of America's secret efforts to hide its founding documents from Axis powers, and its national tradition of uniting to defend the definition of democracy. A Boston Globe Bestseller On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place. American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality. Stephen Puleo weaves in exciting stories of freedom under fire - from the Declaration and Constitution smuggled out of Washington days before the British burned the capital in 1814, to their covert relocation during WWII - crafting a sweeping history of a nation united to preserve its definition of democracy.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466872748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Stephen Puleo's American Treasures is a narrative history of America's secret efforts to hide its founding documents from Axis powers, and its national tradition of uniting to defend the definition of democracy. A Boston Globe Bestseller On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place. American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality. Stephen Puleo weaves in exciting stories of freedom under fire - from the Declaration and Constitution smuggled out of Washington days before the British burned the capital in 1814, to their covert relocation during WWII - crafting a sweeping history of a nation united to preserve its definition of democracy.
Money, Power, and Elections
Author: Rodney A. Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the laws have had exactly the opposite of their intended effect. They have increased the likelihood that incumbents in the House and Senate will be reelected, and they have greatly diminished the chances that candidates who are not wealthy will be elected. Smith's claims are supported by convincing data; he collected and analyzed information about all federal elections since 1920. These data show clearly that money matters now more than ever. Smith thinks that reform legislation has created a new inequality for candidates that, if left unchecked, threatens to destroy the American electoral process by obliterating the foundational principle of free speech. He argues that "money buys speech" and when candidates lack money to buy media time and space they are effectively silenced. Their inability to "speak freely" violates the most significant intentions of our nation's founders: that a sovereign citizenry elect its own leaders based on a free exchange of ideas. For Smith, campaign finance reform has unwittingly unbalanced the checks and balances created by the Framers of the Constitution.After presenting a detailed historical overview of how we have reached the present crisis, Smith proposes a simple solution: institute a process that completely discloses relevant information about campaign donors and recipients of donations. All disclosures would be available to the media, which would be able to investigate and report them fully. Only then, Smith believes, will the United States have the opportunity to be the democratic republic that its founders intended.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the laws have had exactly the opposite of their intended effect. They have increased the likelihood that incumbents in the House and Senate will be reelected, and they have greatly diminished the chances that candidates who are not wealthy will be elected. Smith's claims are supported by convincing data; he collected and analyzed information about all federal elections since 1920. These data show clearly that money matters now more than ever. Smith thinks that reform legislation has created a new inequality for candidates that, if left unchecked, threatens to destroy the American electoral process by obliterating the foundational principle of free speech. He argues that "money buys speech" and when candidates lack money to buy media time and space they are effectively silenced. Their inability to "speak freely" violates the most significant intentions of our nation's founders: that a sovereign citizenry elect its own leaders based on a free exchange of ideas. For Smith, campaign finance reform has unwittingly unbalanced the checks and balances created by the Framers of the Constitution.After presenting a detailed historical overview of how we have reached the present crisis, Smith proposes a simple solution: institute a process that completely discloses relevant information about campaign donors and recipients of donations. All disclosures would be available to the media, which would be able to investigate and report them fully. Only then, Smith believes, will the United States have the opportunity to be the democratic republic that its founders intended.
The Story of the Constitution
Author: Frederick Dumont Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description