American Constitutional Law 8E, 2-VOL SET
2-VOLUME SET
8th Edition
Ralph A. Rossum (Author), G. Alan Tarr (Author)
July 2009
Trade Paperback · 1600 Pages
$160.00 U.S. · $184.00 CAN · £85.99 U.K. · €114.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780813344799
Westview Press
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Description
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.
Each volume of the eighth edition of
American Constitutional Law is also available individually:
American Constitutional Law, Volume I: The Structure of Government (Westview Press, ISBN 978–0-8133–4477–5) and
American Constitutional Law, Volume II: The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments (Westview Press, ISBN 978–0-8133–4478–2).
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.
Praise for Previous Editions:
"An excellent two-volume Constitutional Law case book with sophisticated introductions.”
—Saul Brenner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"Its greatest strengths are threefold. First, the case excerpts are ideal for undergraduate students who are being exposed to the reading of case law for the first time and who are not familiar with legal nomenclature. … The second great virtue of the book is that the introductory sections of each chapter, which precede the case law, succinctly summarize the law, history, and politics related to the cases that students are about to encounter. These introductions do an excellent job setting the context for the case law. … The third great virtue of the R & T text is that the editors do as good a job as any constitutional law text tying the case law to what the framers of the constitutional provisions at issue had to say. This allows students to understand the original meaning of the Constitution in a way they might seldom appreciate with other textbooks that disregard or object to such approaches to constitutional law."
—Anthony A. Peacock, Utah State University
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