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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state
In the follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Trump's War,
Michael Savage makes the case for President Trump in 2020.America
rolled into 2020 like a juggernaut, with the strongest economy in
its history and a renewed leadership role on the world stage.
President Trump was cruising to reelection on the strength of
record low unemployment, phase one of a historic trade deal, and a
more stable Middle East after the defeat of ISIS.Then, catastrophe
struck. A novel coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, swept the
world, taking hundreds of thousands of lives and wreaking economic
and social destruction. As America battled to its feet and prepared
to reopen its economy, the tragic death of George Floyd at the
hands of a police officer lit a powder keg of political tension
waiting to explode after months of lockdown. As the November
elections approach, America is at war with itself to decide if it
will remain a land of freedom and opportunity, or whether a radical
new vision will emerge.Americans are searching for answers. Was the
American lockdown necessary to defeat Covid-19 or was it a
politically motivated strategy to harm President Trump's reelection
chances? Does the death of George Floyd represent a systemic
problem with American police or is the Left exploiting the tragedy
for political purposes? Where does legitimate protest end and
insurrection begin?A trained scientist who studied epidemiology for
his PhD and one of America's most popular conservative radio hosts
for the past twenty-six years, Dr. Michael Savage is uniquely
positioned to answer these burning questions. In OUR FIGHT FOR
AMERICA: THE WAR CONTINUES, Savage cuts through the propaganda and
noise to present a clear analysis of the crises and the political
and scientific motivations behind them. Michael Savage tells the
truth even when nobody wants to hear it and presents a clear vision
of what Americans must do to survive our most turbulent period in
decades.
Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving
search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police
use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification
protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more
thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting or a wrongful conviction.
Intrusive searches for alcohol during Prohibition destroyed
middle-class Americans' faith in police and ushered in a new basis
for controlling police conduct. State courts in the 1920s began to
exclude perfectly reliable evidence obtained in an illegal search.
Then, as Prohibition drew to a close, a presidential commission
awakened the public to torture in interrogation rooms, prompting
courts to exclude coerced confessions irrespective of whether the
technique had produced a reliable statement. Prohibition's scheme
lingered long past the Roaring '20s. Racial tensions and police
brutality were bigger concerns in the 1960s than illegal searches,
yet when the Supreme Court imposed limits on officers' conduct in
1961, searches alone were regulated. Interrogation law during the
1960s, fundamentally reshaped by the Miranda ruling, ensured that
suspects who invoked their rights would not be subject to coercive
tactics, but did nothing to ensure reliable confessions by those
who were questioned. Explicitly recognizing that its decisions
excluding evidence had not been well-received, the Court in the
1970s refused to exclude identifications merely because they were
made in suggestive lineups. Perhaps a larger project
awaits-refocusing our rules of criminal procedure on those concerns
from which Prohibition distracted us: conviction accuracy and the
use of force by police.
The American vice presidency, as the saying goes, 'is not worth a
bucket of warm spit.' Yet vice presidential candidates, many people
believe, can make all the difference in winning-or losing-a
presidential election. Is that true, though? Did Sarah Palin, for
example, sink John McCain's campaign in 2008? Did Joe Biden help
Barack Obama win? Do running mates actually matter? In the first
book to put this question to a rigorous test, Christopher J. Devine
and Kyle C. Kopko draw upon an unprecedented range of empirical
data to reveal how, and how much, running mates influence voting in
presidential elections. Building on their previous work in The VP
Advantage and evidence from over 200 statistical models spanning
the 1952 to 2016 presidential elections, the authors analyze three
pathways by which running mates might influence vote choice. First,
of course, they test for direct effects, or whether evaluations of
the running mate influence vote choice among voters in general.
Next, they test for targeted effects-if, that is, running mates win
votes among key subsets of voters who share their gender, religion,
ideology, or geographic identity. Finally, the authors examine
indirect effects-that is, whether running mates shape perceptions
of the presidential candidate who selected them, which in turn
influence vote choice. Here, in this last category, is where we see
running mates most clearly influencing presidential
voting-especially when it comes to their qualifications for holding
office and taking over as president, if necessary. Picking a
running mate from a key voting bloc probably won't make a
difference, the authors conclude. But picking an experienced,
well-qualified running mate will make the presidential candidate
look better to voters---and win some votes. With its wealth of data
and expert analysis, this finely crafted study, the most
comprehensive to date, finally provides clear answers to one of the
most enduring questions in presidential politics: can the running
mate make a difference in this election?
With notes and an apparatus, a new translation of Hegel's essay
"Machiavelli's "The Prince" and Italy," and the first pages of "The
Prince" in the original Italian
At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven
Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his
masterpiece "The Prince," a classic study of power and politics,
and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial
in his own time, the work made Machiavelli's name a byword for
manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as
Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true
today as when they were first written almost five centuries
ago.
Ideal for introductory courses, Current Debates in American
Government presents over 50 lively readings drawn from major news
sources including: The Economist, The Washington Post, NPR News,
The New York Times, and The New Yorker. The authors selected these
readings to introduce students to key debates in American politics
and to help them better understand how these issues and debates
affect their own lives.
At midnight on 30 June 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese
sovereignty after 150 years of British rule. The moment when the
British flag came down was dramatic enough but the ten years
leading up to it were full of surprising incident and change. These
'Letters from Hong Kong', written by an Englishwoman who was
involved in those events from 1987, are both an unusual historical
record and a heartwarming account of women's domestic, intellectual
and political activity. This epilogue brings Hong Kong up to date
ten years after the Handover.
The second edition of Democracy for All: Educator's Manual is aimed
at young people, adults, students and teachers. The books explain
how the international community understands democracy, and explores
what democracy means to each of us. Democracy for All also explains
how government works in a democracy, how the abuse of power is
checked, how human rights support democracy, how democratic
elections take place, and how citizens can participate in
democracy. The objectives of the book are: To improve students'
understanding of the fundamental principles and values underlying
democracy in society; To promote awareness of the current issues
and controversies relating to democracy; To show students that
their participation can make a difference to how democracy
functions in their country; To foster justice, tolerance and
fairness; To develop students' willingness and ability to resolve
disputes and differences without resorting to violence; To improve
basic skills, including critical thinking and reasoning,
communication, observation and problem-solving. Democracy for All
uses a variety of student-centred activities, including case
studies, role-plays, simulations, small-group discussions, opinion
polls and debates. Democracy for All: Educator's Manual explains
how the lessons in the Learner's Manual can be conducted and
provides solutions to the problems.
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and
presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In
this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on
the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to
tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has
confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the
office-the first president to the forty-fourth-has contributed to
the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the
actions he took as the nation's chief executive. By examining
presidential history through the lens of constitutional conflicts
and challenges, The Presidents and the Constitution offers a fresh
perspective on how the Constitution has evolved in the hands of
individual presidents. It delves into key moments in American
history, from Washington's early battles with Congress to the
advent of the national security presidency under George W. Bush and
Barack Obama, to reveal the dramatic historical forces that drove
these presidents to action. Historians and legal experts, including
Richard Ellis, Gary Hart, Stanley Kutler and Kenneth Starr, bring
the Constitution to life, and show how the awesome powers of the
American presidency have been shapes by the men who were granted
them. The book brings to the fore the overarching constitutional
themes that span this country's history and ties together
presidencies in a way never before accomplished.
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