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American Constitutional Law, Eighth Edition, Volume 1

American Constitutional Law, Eighth Edition, Volume 1

The Structure of Government
8th Edition
Ralph A. Rossum (Author), G. Alan Tarr (Author)
July 2009
Trade Paperback · 656 Pages
$95.00 U.S. · $109.50 CAN · £49.99 U.K. · €67.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780813344775
Westview Press
 

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American Constitutional Law provides a comprehensive account of the nation’s defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, this text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish. The authors examine the constitutional thought of the founders, as well as interpretations of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, Congress, the President, lower federal courts, and state judiciaries. Now fully updated, the eighth edition of this classic volume focuses on federal rights and powers and incorporates six new cases, including Boumediene v. Bush, Medellin v. Texas, Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, and Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company.

Also available in its eighth edition from authors Ralph A. Rossum and G. Alan Tarr: American Constitutional Law, Volume II: The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments(Westview Press, ISBN 978–0-8133–4478–2) and American Constitutional Law: Two-Volume Set (Westview Press, ISBN 978–0-8133–4479–9).

Ralph A. Rossum is Henry Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism and Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of several books, including Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence (2006), and has served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Director of its Bureau of Justice Statistics and as a board member of its National Institute of Corrections.

G. Alan Tarr is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, Camden. He is the author of several books, including Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking (2010), and has served as a constitutional consultant in Brazil, Burma, Cyprus, Russia, and South Africa. Three times an NEH Fellow, he is currently editor of a fifty-volume reference series on state constitutions.

About the Authors

Ralph A. Rossum is Henry Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism and Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of several books, including Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence (2006), and has served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Director of its Bureau of Justice Statistics and as a board member of its National Institute of Corrections.

G. Alan Tarr is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, Camden. He is the author of several books, including Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking (2010), and has served as a constitutional consultant in Brazil, Burma, Cyprus, Russia, and South Africa. Three times an NEH Fellow, he is currently editor of a fifty-volume reference series on state constitutions.