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This supplement brings the principal text current with recent
developments in the law.
The Impeachments of Donald Trump: An Introduction to Constitutional
Argument presents an accessible introduction to one of the nation's
most searing constitutional confrontations between the President
and Congress. The purpose of the book is two-fold: First, it
provides a curated record of a constitutional moment of
extraordinary importance in the history of modern democracy. As
such, it can be used by any instructor wishing to add interest to
constitutional law courses in or outside law schools, whether in
departments of history, political science, or legal studies.
Second, precisely because this event is important in understanding
modern democracy, the book is pitched at a wider audience than
standard legal texts, and can be used to teach the very basics of
legal argument--how lawyers reason about the constitution--to
undergraduates as well as first-year law students. Teaching
constitutional reasoning can pose great difficulties when students
are given ancient 18th-century materials with no apparent relevance
to pressing issues in modern memory. Throughout the book, students
are asked to consider the basic form of arguments in constitutional
law: text, history, past precedent, future precedent, and
democratic ethos. This book contributes to the growing literature
addressing democratic constitutionalism--constitutional reasoning
outside the courts. More importantly, it provides a lively--and
exciting--context in which to teach legal reasoning for
introductory courses on the Constitution.
This groundbreaking coursebook introduces students to the modern
statutory and regulatory state. Authored by one of the founders of
the legislation field and two leading scholars of Congress, it
explores the regulatory state from the perspectives of Congress and
agencies as well as judges (the traditional focus). The materials
survey the empirical realities and rules under which Congress
enacts statutes, the President and agencies implement them, and
courts review agencies and interpret statutes. Importantly, this
book examines the constitutional and functional structures within
which Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court interact,
making the book accessible to first-year students, with advanced
options for upper-level courses in legislation and administrative
law. The coursebook's unique, real-world focus on both the
legislative process and the linkages between Congress and agencies
sets it apart from more traditional casebooks and gives instructors
useful materials for teaching the next generation of legislation,
legislation-regulation, statutory interpretation, and
administrative law courses.
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized
at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality
and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws
calling for the sterilization of "habitual criminals" and the
"feebleminded." But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma's McAlester prison
refused to cooperate; a man named Jack Skinner was the first to
come to trial. A colorful and heroic cast of characters-from the
inmates themselves to their devoted, self-taught lawyer-would fight
the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Only after
Americans learned the extent of another large-scale eugenics
project-in Nazi Germany-would the inmates triumph. Combining
engrossing narrative with sharp legal analysis, Victoria F. Nourse
explains the consequences of this landmark decision, still vital
today-and reveals the stories of these forgotten men and women who
fought for human dignity and the basic right to have a family.
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