Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index. "This is a thoroughly fascinating book by one of our major constitutional thinkers.

This is the second edition of Professor Tushnet's short critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States' Constitution.

In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging ...

Instead, by providing key facts about Congress, the president, and the nature of the current constitutional regime, his book reveals not only why the Constitution matters to each of us but also, and perhaps more important, how it matters.

Historical and contemporary examinations of the constitutional issues raised by war. ldquo;The collection of essays inThe Constitution in Wartimewill enhance the quality and depth of the debate that surrounds many of the measures taken by ...

In this second edition Tushnet includes new material based on developments in practice and scholarship since the original edition’s publication back in 2014.

In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees.

The first paperback edition of a classic of American constitutional theory. The book is divided into two parts.

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice.

Drawing on personal interviews with Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers, as well as new information about the private deliberations of the Supreme Court, Tushnet tells the dramatic story of how the NAACP Legal Defense Fund led the ...