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1) The prince
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
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1510L
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English
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Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be...
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2015.
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"In The Constitution, constitutional scholar Michael Stokes Paulsen and his son Luke provide a clear, accessible introduction to the history and meaning of this historic document. Beginning with the Constitution's birth in 1787, Paulsen and Paulsen offer a grand tour of its history and interpretations, introducing readers to the characters and controversies that have shaped this founding instrument in the 200-plus years since its creation. In order...
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2018.
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English
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"This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and Colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it legally protects, has changed drastically since its first appearance in the 1689 Declaration of Rights. Armed in America explores how and why the right to arms transformed...
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"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution's protections...
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1340L
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English
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The United States Constitution is the basis for our most fundamental rights as Americans and has been a key element in nearly every major legal and political debate ever argued. But how many of us actually understand the language used by our Founding Fathers? Now Linda R. Monk, an award-winning author and journalist, takes us through the Constitution, line by line, to help us comprehend this amazing document and to see the variety of ways in which...
6) The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America, and Other Importa
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This volume includes some of the most important historical documents in American history. In this edition are included the following: The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America (1776), The Constitution of the United States of America (1787), The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments to the Constitution (1791-1992), The Albany Plan (1754), The Declaration of Rights (1765 – In Response to the Stamp Act), Declaration of Rights and...
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Español
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¡Despertó, despertó, Chile despertó! Ha sido la consigna que miles de manifestantes corean por las calles y por "las grandes alamedas" luego del 18 de octubre de 2019. Este libro es un registro de los acontecimientos e intenta comprender el significado de tan importante proceso, que está cambiando el curso de la historia de Chile.
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The principles behind the "Bill of Rights" have helped elevate human civilization to a level of liberty never seen in history. The American experiment inspired the spread of written constitutions and declarations of rights throughout the world, which has raised billions out of poverty, chaos, and oppression. However, without understanding the principles behind the Bill of Rights, all nations, including our own, continue to struggle.
"Behind the Bill...
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Español
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Chile ha abierto un proceso histórico para repensar sus instituciones políticas, sociales y económicas. Es un desafío de largo aliento, que no se agota con el proceso constituyente realizado durante 2021 y 2022. Para avanzar hacia un nuevo contrato social que goce de un amplio y duradero apoyo por parte de la ciudadanía, se requiere impulsar un profundo diálogo que permita consensuar una nueva visión de sociedad y metas compartidas. Este libro...
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After more than two centuries of mostly very successful services rendered, our constitutional system deserves honor and respect. But it was written by men who had no magic powers to foresee the problems of governing a 21st century superpower in a globalized economy in a country 10 times the size on the one they contemplated. Today, in a nation riven by the nasty 21st century brand of hyperpartisanship that exploits veto points embedded in the system,...
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World War II was a disaster for Japan, and the country needed to do a complete turn-about before it could be accepted back into the international community. The Constitution, for example, needed to be completely rewritten to incorporate democratic principles and to reflect popular revulsion at military adventurism. Yet changing the laws was not enough. These new norms needed to be explained to and internalized by the general public. Education was...
12) State Formation
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What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state.
The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions of it are constantly changing, and differ from person to person. What is your idea of the state if you are a refugee? Or if you are living in post-aparteid South Africa? Our perceptions are formed and sustained by evolving discourses and techniques --...
13) Surgimiento de la dualidad de jurisdicciones en Colombia. Entre la regeneración, la dictadura y l
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Español
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Esta obra recoge las principales ideas que fundamentan la consagración de un tribunal administrativo, hace referencia a la historia comparada de las principales constituciones del continente, y analiza las fuentes primarias y más autorizadas sobre el contexto y el desarrollo normativo que dio vida a la dualidad de jurisdicciones en Colombia y su estabilización hasta 1913. Así mismo, el autor presenta algunos datos cuantitativos que demostrarán...
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Français
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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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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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"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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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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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...
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Chile está enfrentado a un proceso constituyente que genera muchas expectativas, pero también muchas inquietudes. El proceso constituyente en 138 preguntas y respuestas es una herramienta de estudio y debate, escrito de la manera más simple y directa, en base a las preguntas más frecuentes que se han generado en los cabildos y asambleas ciudadanas, con el fi n de entregarle instrumentos de discernimiento al único soberano,el pueblo de Chile:...
20) 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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