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"Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled. On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka "the God Particle"--was discovered at the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. On March 14, 2013, physicists at CERN confirmed it. This elusive subatomic particle forms a field that permeates the entire universe,...
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"Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. Based on prodigious...
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This famous study - one of the most influential in the area of American economic history - brought a halt to Americans' uncritical reverence for their country's revolutionary past. Questioning the Founding Fathers' motivations in drafting the Constitution, it viewed the results as a product of economic self-interest. Perhaps the most controversial books of its time.
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As the Supreme Court continues to rule on important issues, it is essential to understand how it operates. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves and other insiders, this is a timely "state of the union" about America's most elite legal institution. From Anthony Kennedy's self-importance, to Antonin Scalia's combativeness, to David Souter's eccentricity, and even Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with President George W. Bush,...
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Gridlock! Gerrymandering! The Electoral college! How did our government get so complicated? As it turns out, many of the issues we struggle with today have their roots in the creation of the United States Constitution. Husband-and-wife team Cynthis Levinson and Sanford Levinson take us back to the beginnings of this document and show how these fault lines were first introduced - and how their unintended consequences continue to affect us today. The...
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"In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony," he writes. Americans may venerate the Constitution, "but all...
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The Second Amendment to the Constitution, a protection of the ownership of firearms, has become the source of heated controversy in recent years. Learn about the Founders' views on this important freedom and their solutions for averting the plague of violence that has disrupted communications.
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En este libro, el autor analiza lo que considera el principal problema político de México: la contradicción irresoluble entre las reglas de gobierno impuestas después de la Revolución con las modificaciones constitucionales que habilitaron el autoritarismo y el sistema presidencialista, y la apertura obligada por la crisis económica y política de 1995, que llevó al partido hegemónico a pactar una transición democrática hacia un régimen...
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With the aim to awaken and prepare secular masses to rise to the occasion so as to save this sovereign democratic socialist republic from being shipped into the clutches of communal forces, the book present the now strengthening communal forces still able to drive a whirlwind across the country and their attacks on various walks of Indian life. New constitutional debates are well discussed for journalists, citizens, scholars, and statesmen.
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El presente volumen abre la serie de publicaciones dedicadas a indagar en la centuria pasada de Venezuela y proponer otra comprensión de esa historia reciente. "La política en el siglo XX venezolano" reúne a un grupo de investigadores que plantea una reflexión y revisión del siglo XX como un periodo de una transformación profunda de nuestra nación, hecha "en muchos casos de peculiaridades inimaginables" si se contrasta con el XIX.
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A lo largo del siglo XIX el país se vio obligado a definirse en favor o en contra de tres modelos políticos que tenían grandes diferencias entre sí. Por supuesto, uno de estos modelos era el radical, que finalmente fue derrotado por uno mucho más fuerte, puesto que no solo lo derrotó, sino que logró imponerse durante un periodo muy largo. Sin embargo, durante los años radicales se vivió una expansión económica y un progreso social importantes...
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Publisher's Weekly says: "Like an episode of The Daily Show crossed with an issue of Mother Jones, this charming little book from Whitten (co-author of Vitally Important's similarly-pitched Secrets of the SuperOptimist) is a winning mix of humor and good citizenship. Based on Thomas Jefferson's assertion that "the Constitution should be revised every 20 years," Whitten proposes a double-handful of amendments "intended to instigate discussion... and...
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La lecture des Constitutions arabes -de leur lettre comme de leur pratique- par le biais du pluralisme juridique permet de comprendre la nature et la portée des transformations qui sont à l'œuvre dans ces États, tant ceux qui restent essentiellement attachés à des valeurs traditionnelles que les plus avancés dans les processus de démocratisation et de protection des droits fondamentaux.
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To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott Douglas Gerber here argues that the Constitution of the United States should be interpreted in light of the natural rights political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that the Supreme Court is the institution of American government that should be primarily responsible for identifying and applying that philosophy in...
18) Wall of Misconception: Does the Separation of Church and State Mean the Separation of God and Govt
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The "wall of separation between church and state" is a phrase not found anywhere in the Constitution, but activist judges have recklessly used that phrase to stamp out public religious expression. We are restricted from praying in public schools, the Ten Commandments and other religious symbols have been stripped from public buildings, and the term "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has been called "unconstitutional". Dr. Peter Lillback exposes...
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The UK's decision to leave the EU has opened up huge existential questions for Northern Ireland as it marks its centenary. Constitutional conflict in Northern Ireland had been regarded as largely resolved and settled, but Brexit has altered the wider constitutional framework within which the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is situated. With the question of Irish unity gaining renewed and sustained traction, and with trade, relationships and politics across...
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"Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. ... If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union: but we shall have saved it, as to make, and keep it, forever worthy of the saving." – Abraham Lincoln
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