The little understood yet great power of impeachment lodged in the Congress is dissected in this text through history by Raoul Berger, a leading scholar on the subject.

An innovative combination of personal and judicial biography, this book makes an insightful contribution to American constitutional and intellectual history.

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century.

Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of ...

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

In this monumental book, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of our national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents.

In this monumental book, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of our national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents.

This book is an innovative combination of personal and judicial biography which illuminates and explains the contradictions and puzzles in Supreme Court Justice Harlan's judicial career.

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