A Companion to the USA Structure and Its Amendments

Now in its sixth version with protection of main Supreme Court docket selections via the top of the 2013–2014 time period, this e book stays a key supply for college kids, professors, and residents looking for balanced, up-to-date data on the Structure, its amendments, and the way they’ve been interpreted.

A doc that’s effectively previous two centuries previous, the U.S. Structure stays as related and necessary as we speak as through the time of our nation’s founding. Now in its sixth version, this single-volume work provides a good, non-partisan therapy of one of the necessary paperwork in American historical past. The e book begins with introductory background data on the U.S. Structure and the Declaration of Independence after which presents a clause-by-clause clarification of the Structure from the preamble via all of its amendments, addressing how every has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court docket and different establishments all through U.S. historical past.

This totally up to date version of A Companion to the USA Structure and Its Amendments incorporates quite a few new developments within the 4 years because the earlier version, together with the appointments of recent Supreme Court docket justices, impactful circumstances involving First Modification rights for college kids, the Inexpensive Care Act, Nationwide Safety Company (NSA) information gathering, voting rights, marketing campaign finance regulation, DNA sampling, and the continuing battle over homosexual rights. As with the earlier editions, John R. Vile supplies a balanced and thorough therapy that identifies key Supreme Court docket selections and different interpretations of the doc whereas abstaining from unnecessarily complicated and complicated explanations.

• Supplies an accessible and informative introduction to the creation, that means, and persevering with position of the Structure that’s fitted to highschool college students, undergraduate audiences, regulation college students and researchers, reference librarians, and residents who need to perceive the Structure and its amendments
• Presents balanced therapies of all key constitutional provisions and up-to-date data on how key U.S. Supreme Court docket selections have interpreted the Structure
• Features a glossary, highlights of constitutional historical past, and a completely up to date appendix of the names and dates of U.S. Supreme Court docket Justices
• Consists of copies of the U.S. Structure and Its Amendments, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation