[PDF] The Constitution In Jeopardy eBook

Author : Russ Feingold
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1541701542

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A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward. Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism—the nation's first ever—has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited authority to draft changes to our fundamental law, potentially altering anything from voting and free speech rights to regulatory and foreign policy powers. Such a watershed moment would present great danger, and for some, great power. In this important book, Feingold and Prindiville distill extensive legal and historical research and examine the grave risks inherent in this effort. But they also consider the role of constitutional amendment in modern life. Though many focus solely on judicial and electoral avenues for change, such an approach is at odds with a cornerstone ideal of the Founding: that the People make constitutional law, directly. In an era defined by faction and rejection of long-held norms, The Constitution in Jeopardy examines the nature of constitutional change and asks urgent questions about what American democracy is, and should be.

Author : David Rudstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 031302782X

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This volume traces the history of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. It shows that the constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy has its roots in ancient Jewish and early Greek and Roman law. After recapping the history of the clause the Supreme Court's current interpretation of the clause is explained. This book describes the circumstances in which the premature termination of an individual's trial bars a subsequent trail for the same offense. It also examines when the Clause prohibits the government from imposing multiple punishments for the same offense. The final chapter includes a discussion of bibliographical sources.

Author : Corona Brezina
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448823269

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This book is an introduction to the Fifth Amendment which empowers the people as it guarantees valuable protections on a daily basis within the justice system.

Author : John Rokutani
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766087352

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The Fifth Amendment is one of the more complex and far-reaching amendments to the US Constitution, so this book begins by breaking down each clause one by one, explaining the legalese in uncomplicated language, thus allowing the reader to reach a full understanding of due process. It then systemically describes the impact of the Fifth Amendment clause by clause, using Supreme Court cases as real-world examples. Sidebars highlight the amendment in action and delve into some of the finer points. This book includes rich resource sections that allow for further exploration.

Author : Chris Jolley
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781518661853

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Learn the US Constitution while playing Jeopardy! Patterned after the popular TV game show, this game includes six categories on the Constitution to help players bolster their knowledge on the seven articles, the Bill of Rights, the rest of the amendments, plus history and trivia. The game includes answers and questions for Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy Round, Final Jeopardy Round, plus extra answers and questions in case you ever learn them too well, also, instructions on how to play, all the tile sheets for the six categories and dollar values to form the game board on a wall. References to the article and section of the Constitution follow each question.Celebrate every Constitution Day by playing this game with friends or family, or play it anytime throughout the year!

Author : W. Leonard Whitehouse
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781546407393

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This is the fifth volume in the 'Final Jeopardy' series of books. The first four volumes explored issues involving: Science, evolution, medicine, neurobiology, quantum physics, cosmology, and religion. The present volume critically examines the notion of sovereignty against a backdrop of various events drawn primarily from American history. Among the topics discussed are: Republicanism, sovereignty, democracy, the rule of law, the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the process of ratification, the Supreme Court, corporations, the Federal Reserve, the military-industrial complex, the CIA, some of the decisions of modern American presidents ranging from: Eisenhower to Obama. A central theme of the foregoing book concerns the manner in which all three branches of government have consistently failed to comply with the guarantee promised in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution involving a republican form of government in the service of the purposes contained in the Preamble. By failing to operate in accordance with the requirements of Article IV, Section 4, America has had a very different history than might have occurred if the central promise of the Constitution had been honored.

Author : Beau Breslin
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804776707

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What would America's Constitutions have looked like if each generation wrote its own? "The earth belongs...to the living, the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." These famous words, written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, reflect Jefferson's lifelong belief that each generation ought to write its own Constitution. According to Jefferson each generation should take an active role in endorsing, renouncing, or changing the nation's fundamental law. Perhaps if he were alive today to witness our seething debates over constitutional interpretation, he would feel vindicated in this belief. Madison's response was that a Constitution must endure over many generations to gain the credibility needed to keep a nation strong and united. History tells us that Jefferson lost that debate. But what if he had prevailed? In A Constitution for the Living, Beau Breslin reimagines American history to answer that question. By tracing the story from the 1787 Constitutional Convention up to the present, Breslin presents an engaging and insightful narrative account of historical figures and how they might have shaped their particular generation's Constitution. For all those who want to be in the candlelit taverns where the Founders sat debating fundamental issues over wine; to witness towering figures of American history, from Abraham Lincoln to Booker T. Washington, play out hypothetical meetings and conversations that are startling and revealing; and to attend a Constitutional Convention taking place in the present day--this book brings these possibilities to life with sensitivity, verve, and compelling historical detail. This book is, above all, a call for a more engaged American public at a time when change seems close at hand, if we dare to imagine it.