Benjamin Wittes, "What Would Madison Do?: The Father of the Constitution Meets Modern American Politics"
English | ISBN: 0815726570 | 2015 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1078 KB
What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary developments in American politics and public policy?

Koseki Shōichi, "The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution"
English | ISBN: 0813334950 | | 271 pages | EPUB | 430 KB
This 1989 Yoshino Sakuzo prize-winning book is essential reading for understanding Japan's postwar constitution, political and social history, and foreign policy. The most complete English account of the origins of Japan's constitution, it analyzes the dramatic events of 1945?1946 that lead to the birth of Japan's new constitution. Koseki Shoichi challenges the simplicity of the current interpretation that General Douglas MacArthur in February 1946, faced with inept Japanese efforts at constitutional reform and Soviet interference through the Far Eastern Commission, secretly ordered his staff to write a constitution in seven days and then imposed it on Japan. Differentiating between the adoption procedure and the framing process, the author argues that the latter was varied, complicated, and rich, going beyond the actions of two nations and their representatives. It involved the clash of legal ideas, the conflicting efforts of individuals of different cultures and different political persuasions, and significant contributions by people with no connection to government.Drawing on Japanese, American, and Australian archives as well as recent scholarly research, Koseki presents new and stimulating interpretations of MacArthur's actions, the Ashida amendment of Article 9, Yoshida's role, and much more. Criticizing Japanese conservative defenders of the old order, he explores Japanese liberal and socialist ideas on constitutional reform and reevaluates the Far Eastern Commission's influence on MacArthur's policies and on the shaping of the basic principles of Japan's antiwar constitution.

Charles Austin Beard, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1718621191 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.9 mb
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, written by Charles Austin Beard, and published in 1913 argues that the structure of the Constitution of the United States was motivated primarily by the personal financial interests of the Founding Fathers; Beard contends that the authors of The Federalist Papers represented an interest group themselves. More specifically, Beard contends that the Constitutional Convention was attended by, and the Constitution was therefore written by, a "cohesive" elite seeking to protect its personal property (especially federal bonds) and economic standing.

Joseph M. Bessette, "The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution"
English | ISBN: 1538101025 | 2017 | 184 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Time and again, in recent years, the charge has been made that sitting presidents have behaved "imperially," employing authorities that break the bounds of law and the Constitution. It is now an epithet used to describe presidencies of both parties. The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution examines this critical issue from a variety of perspectives: analyzing the president's role in the administrative state, as commander-in-chief, as occupant of the modern "Bully Pulpit," and, in separate essays, addressing recent presidents' relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court. The volume also deepens the discussion by taking a look back at Abraham Lincoln's expansive use of executive power during the Civil War where the tension between law and necessity were at their most extreme, calling into question the "rule of law" itself. The volume concludes with an examination of how the Constitution's provision of both "powers and duties" for the president can provide a roadmap for assessing the propriety of executive behavior.

Myron Magnet, "Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 164177052X | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.5 mb

Michael Arnheim, "U.S. Constitution For Dummies"
English | ISBN: 0764587803 | 2009 | 408 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An in-depth look at the defining document of America

English | 2015 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00XRVWVBA | Duration: 6:41 h | 182 MB
Mike Lee / Narrated by Mike Lee, Tom Parks

English | ASIN: B09SJYX7HG | 2022 | 6 hours and 11 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 170 MB
Two Revolutions and the Constitution describes how the American Constitution secured the gains of the American Revolution. It tells the story of how the American constitutional system drew on both Americans' experience of partial self-government in colonial America and their understanding of the British constitution. It also tells how, when they were drafting the Constitution, the Framers used what they had learned about effective constitutions since independence. The English Revolution and the American Revolution were both part of a great struggle between a new modern society, and the political relics of the medieval world. This audiobook describes how the English started that struggle, and the American Constitution completed it.

How Democratic is the American Constitution by Robert Alan Dahl PDF | 931.56 KB
N/A | 209 Pages

Title: How Democratic is the American Constitution?
Author: Robert A. Dahl
Year: 2016

English | 2015 |MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00VGSK1XQ | Duration: 2:45 h | 75 MB
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Narrated by Therese Plummer