Description: Like new hardcover in dust jacket. Unmarked and obviously unread All Books are Carefully and Properly Packed. Shipped in a Box. Despite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, principles and procedures that actually govern modern America. The document makes no explicit mention of cherished concepts like the separation of powers and the rule of law. On some issues, the plain meaning of the text misleads. For example, the text seems to say that the vice president presides over his own impeachment trial -- but surely this cannot be right. As esteemed legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar explains in America's Unwritten Constitution, the solution to many constitutional puzzles lies not solely within the written document, but beyond it -- in the vast trove of values, precedents, and practices that complement and complete the terse text. An authoritative work by one of America's preeminent legal scholars, America's Unwritten Constitution presents a bold new vision of the American constitutional system, showing how the complementary relationship between the Constitution's written and unwritten components is one of America's greatest and most enduring strengths.
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
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Features: Dust Jacket
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Book Title: America's Unwritten Constitution : the Precedents and Principles We Live by
Number of Pages: 640 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: Constitutional, Constitutions
Item Height: 2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Political Science
Item Weight: 32.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Akhil Reed Amar
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
