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Amar, Akhil Reed, author.
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Constitutional law -- United States.
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The constitution today [electronic resource] : timeless lessons for the issues of our era / Akhil Reed Amar.
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Amar, Akhil Reed, author.
New York : Basic Books, c2016.
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Constitutional law -- United States.
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9780465096343 (electronic bk.)
0465096344 (electronic bk.)
9780465096336 (hardback)
0465096336 (hardback)
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1 online resource.
Contents:
The presidency : a return to dynasty -- The vice presidency : nothing but maybe everything -- The congress : how to fix a broken branch -- The judiciary : who judges the judges -- Criminal procedure : from O.J. to D.N.A. -- Citizens dis-united : race, guns, gays, terror, and more -- Constitutional anniversaries : remembering to remember -- Bill Clinton's drama : his partisan impeachment -- George W. Bush's drama : his un-popular election -- Barack Obama's drama : his signature statute.
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"In The Constitution Today preeminent legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar examines the collision between the U.S. Constitution's grand temporal ambitions and the tight deadlines of the popular press by reviewing how he himself has intervened as a vocal commentator on the biggest and most bitterly contested constitutional issues of the last quarter century. Assembled here along with new reflective essays, Amar's commentary looks to the U.S. Constitution's text, history, and structure for the specific rules and grand themes relevant to every vital organ of the American body politic"--
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