Six amendments : how and why we should change the Constitution
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316373722 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0316373729 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
print
vii, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 22 cm - Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Boston ; London : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The "anti-commandeering" rule -- Political gerrymandering -- Campaign finance -- Sovereign immunity -- The death penalty -- The Second Amendment (gun control) -- Constitution of the United States. |
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Subject: | Constitutional amendments United States United States. Constitutional law United States |
Genre: | Large type books. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | KF 4557 .S74 2014 | 30775305474109 | General Collection | Available | - |
Six Amendments : How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
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Summary
Six Amendments : How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book like none other. Six Amendments is an absolutely unprecedented call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the Constitution should be amended in order to protect our democracy and the safety and wellbeing of American citizens. Written with the same precision and elegance that made Stevens's own Court opinions legendary for their clarity as well as logic, Six Amendments is a remarkable work, both because of its unprecedented nature and, in an age of partisan ferocity, its inarguable common sense.