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America's Constitution: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,769 ratings — published 2005
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,700 ratings — published 1788
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,800 ratings — published 2007
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,531 ratings — published 1999
We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.09 — 315 ratings — published 2018
Living Originalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.10 — 52 ratings — published 2011
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.32 — 505 ratings — published 2012
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,066 ratings — published
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.38 — 487 ratings — published 2022
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,939 ratings — published 2022
The Rule of Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,461 ratings — published 2010
The English Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.75 — 501 ratings — published 1867
The United States Constitution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,237 ratings — published 1787
The Constitution: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.12 — 295 ratings — published 2015
Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.53 — 901 ratings — published 2005
Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.87 — 54 ratings — published 2007
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.87 — 990 ratings — published 1997
The Separation of Church and State: Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America's Founders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.26 — 57 ratings — published 2004
Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (Aspen Treatise Series)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.98 — 546 ratings — published 1997
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.74 — 656 ratings — published 2010
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.08 — 180 ratings — published 2011
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,029 ratings — published 2010
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,300 ratings — published 1996
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Harvard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.19 — 297 ratings — published 1980
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,069 ratings — published 1966
The Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.80 — 951 ratings — published 1987
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.11 — 373 ratings — published 1998
What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.78 — 37 ratings — published 2005
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,665 ratings — published 2025
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,568 ratings — published 2007
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.86 — 476 ratings — published 2002
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.08 — 66 ratings — published 1992
Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.98 — 116 ratings — published
Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.66 — 61 ratings — published 1982
Street Performers: Buskers and Busking (Street Savy Empowerment Guides)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.26 — 96 ratings — published
The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.74 — 457 ratings — published 2015
The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,664 ratings — published 1961
Originalism as Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.14 — 57 ratings — published
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.73 — 222 ratings — published 2006
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.69 — 495 ratings — published 1913
Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 1999
Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States (Eighth Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published 1972
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.15 — 178 ratings — published 2003
The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.56 — 204 ratings — published 2001
America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.14 — 408 ratings — published 2012
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.06 — 156 ratings — published 2010
The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969-1986 (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2000
The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall 1801-1835 (Chief Justiceships Of The United States Supreme Court)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1997
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,707 ratings — published 1986
“Look it over some time. 'T is fine spoort if ye don't care f r checkers. Some say it laves th' flag up in th' air an' some say that's where it laves th' constitution. Annyhow, something'» in th' air. But there's wan thing I 'm sure about."
" What's that ?" asked Mr. Hennessy.
" That is," said Mr. Dooley, " no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.”
― Mr. Dooley's Opinions
" What's that ?" asked Mr. Hennessy.
" That is," said Mr. Dooley, " no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.”
― Mr. Dooley's Opinions
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
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