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"This new edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications updates John Feerick's landmark study with the Amendment's uses in the past twenty years and how those uses (along with new legal scholarship) have changed the Amendment and perceptions of presidential disability in general. In its formulation, the Twenty-fifth Amendment was criticized as vague and undemocratic, but it has made possible swift and orderly successions...
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Publisher Annotation: The American Constitution is one of the nation’s most important documents—but what is it saying, exactly? This book helps children understand the answer to that question. In simple, accessible language, it describes how the Constitution was drafted and who the Founding Fathers were; provides a summary of all the articles, amendments, and the Bill of Rights; and explains why the document remains so relevant today.
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Three 20-minute segments which examine key constitutional concepts. The first explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution. The second describes the protection of individual right by highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gedeon v. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The last explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case of youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take over...
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Having won the Revolutionary War and gained their freedom from Great Britain, the delegates from across the newly established country came together in May, 1787, to discuss the rules upon which the United States would be built to ensure the prosperity and freedom of its people for centuries to come.
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