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Author:Bruce Ackerman
Decline and Fall of the American Republic
Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper pathologies. -Ackerman points to a series of...- $32.00
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Deliberation Day (Revised)
Two leading political thinkers offer an audacious proposal to energize the electoral process Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that isAuthor: Bruce Ackerman, James S. FishkinISBN-10: 0300109644ISBN-13: 9780300109641Publisher: Yale University...- $44.00
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Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in...- $32.00
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Is NAFTA Constitutional?
By a vote of 61 to 38, the Senate joined the House in declaring that "Congress approves...the North American Free Trade Agreement." The vote was virtually unnoticed, since the real battle over NAFTA was in the House. But there is a puzzle here. The...- $65.00
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Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law
A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America's most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars--the award-winning author of We the People. Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds--or so its critics would have us believe. But...- $35.00
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The Case Against Lame Duck Impeachment
An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the...- $8.00
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The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking--and liberating--perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis....- $35.00
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The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at...- $49.99
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The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at...- $45.95
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We the People
Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of...- $39.00
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We the People
Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation's constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and future of popular sovereignty in America. Only this distinguished scholar...- $35.50
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We the People
The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman's sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v. Board of Education. From Rosa Parks's courageous defiance, to Martin Luther King's resounding cadences in "I Have a Dream," to Lyndon Johnson's leadership of Congress,...- $26.00
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