The United States Constitution : one document, many choices /: one document, many choices. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John R. Vile.
• Other Names: Vile, John R
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Institutional Choices and the Preamble: It's a Real-World Document, Not a Utopian Blueprint -- 2. The Legislative Branch: It's a Congress, Not a Parliament -- 3. The Executive Branch: It's Headed by an Accountable Elected Official, Not a King or a Dictator -- 4. The Judicial Branch: It's a Group of Lawyers, Not Platonic Guardians -- 5. The Nation and the States: The Arrangement is Federal, Not Confederal or Unitary -- 6. The Constitutional Amending Process: It's Difficult because It's Designed to Preserve the Constitution as Fundamental Law -- 7. The Bill of Rights, and Freedom of Belief and Expression: They Provide for Liberty, Not License -- 8. The Bill of Rights, the Right to Security, and the Rights of the Accused and the Convicted: They Protect the Guilty in Order to Protect the Innocent -- 9. Equality and the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments: It's an Equality of Opportunity, Not a Guarantee of Equal Results -- 10. Postscript: A Time for Reflection.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Subjects: 342.7302; Government/Federal; Constitutional history -- United States; LAW / Constitutional; LAW / Government / Federal; LAW / Legal History; Legal History; Law: study & revision guides; Legal history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137513519; 1137513519
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.