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Author
Series
Senate document volume no. 112-9
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Centennial edition. Popularly known as the Constitution Annotated or "CONAN", encompasses the U.S. Constitution and analysis and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution with in-text annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The analysis is provided by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) in the Library of Congress. This is the 100th anniversary edition of a publication first released in 1913 at the direction of...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony," he writes. Americans may venerate the Constitution, "but all...
27) The Constitution of the United States of America as amended: unratified amendments, analytical index
Author
Series
House document volume no. 110-50
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This volume analyses the social and political forces that influence constitutions and the process of constitution making. It combines theoretical perspectives on the social and political foundations of constitutions with a range of detailed case studies of constitution making in nineteen different countries. In the first part of the volume, leading scholars analyse and develop a range of theoretical perspectives, including constitutions as coordination...
38) What are atoms?
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text explain atoms to young readers.