American Constitutional Rights: Cases, Documents, and Commentary

by Norman Smith, William Carroll, Norman B. Smith

Written by an American political scientist who is also a barrister, and a practicing American lawyer, this casebook emphasizes the deep roots of American constitutional rights in both English and American constitutional development. It illustrates how these rights grow or decline through constitutional amendments, executive actions, statutes, custom, and judicial decisions. The five parts of the book cover rights enforceable against the federal government...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819182591
• ISBN13: 9780819182593
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 804 Pages