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Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the role of Congress in governmental separation of powers, defines the powers and rights held by Congress, and examines how the balance of power between the President and Congress has shifted in the last two centuries.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What is a Constitution? What was there in America before the Constitution? How can the Constitution be changed? What is the Bill of Rights? How was the Constitution written? All of these and other 'must-know' questions about U.S. Constitution are answered in What Are the Three Branches of Government? And Other Questions about the U.S. Constitution. The engaging stories of America's foundation will keep kids reading even if they don't have to write...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach...
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