Study Guide for On Common Ground a documentary series.

On Common Ground: Framework for Democracy Study Guide

History

David E. Carlton

JOHN R. VILE

Mark Eaton Byrnes

World

McGraw-Hill/Higher Education

A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, Third Edition:

Reflecting on important developments like the Clinton impeachment, the balanced budget amendment, gay marriages, and the Violence Against Women Act, Vile's updated book will prove invaluable to those studying the United States Constitution. Designed to help students understand the Constitution in all of it splendor and subtlety, Vile introduces key events of the founding era, the Declaration of Independence, and the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention. The Constitution and its amendments are explored section by section, along with pertinent historical events, laws, and cases.
Students new to constitutional law, American politics, and American history will find Vile's book an authoritative starting point, quickly and easily placing the Constitution's sections and amendments in a wider context, and leading them to other important issues and texts. Those already familiar with Constitutional issues will be able to make use of the book as a reference guide, able to lead them at a glance to landmarks in the U.S. Constitutional history and development. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography of key books and cases useful for further study. Appendices include a glossary, a table of the 50 most important cases, and the texts of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, 3rd Edition

Constitutional Law

Praeger Pub

PLEASING THE COURT >CUSTOM<

Houghton/Mifflin

A Mock trial is an act or imitation trial. It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings. Attorneys preparing for a real trial might use a mock trial consisting of volunteers to test theories or experiment with each other. In a mock trial the rules are often abbreviated in order to focus on particular parts of the trial. Mock trial is also the name of an extracurricular program in which students participate in contrived or fake trials to learn new skills and compete with each other. At some law schools, the term trial advocacy is used for the program. Various organizations, such as state bar associations, sponsor mock trial/trial advocacy competitions for middle school students, high school students, college students, and law students. Interscholastic mock trials take place on three levels. High-school competitive mock trial has an annual national competition governed by National High School Mock Trial Championship, Inc.. The competition on the college circuit is governed by the American Mock Trial Association. The college circuit also has an unofficial online forum at Perjuries Mock Trial. Finally, there is mock trial/trial advocacy at the Law School level such as the National Trial Competition hosted by the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Pleasing the Court: A Mock Trial Handbook

Rules & Procedures

Encyclopedia of Presidential Vetoes from George Washington through to Joseph Biden: History, Subjects, and Procedures

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

The United States Constitution: One Document, Many Choices

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Since 1787, only twenty-seven amendments have been proposed by two-thirds majorities in Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states.During this same time, members of Congress have introduced more than eleven and a half thousand proposals, and states have filed close to four hundred additional petitions for constitutional conventions to propose amendments.These four volumes edited and introduced by John R. Vile collect and update compilations of lists of proposed amendments and convention petitions that have been scattered about in a variety of governmental reports. They also reprint classic studies by Herman Ames and Michael Musmanno that analyzed amending proposals introduced during the nation s early years. The work includes texts of basic constitutional documents like the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, and the Confederate Constitution, as well as a comprehensive index of all amendments proposed through 2001. The fourth volume comprises a supplement to the earlier three, and brings the amendments up through 2010.

Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2021. 4 Volumes.

Americas

Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Gathered Together for the First Time. Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2001: Volume IV. Supplement 2001-2010. Clark: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2011. xii, [13]-81 pp. Hardcover. Volume IV Supplement 2001-2010 contains: proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States; second half of 107th Congresses (2001-2002); 108th Congress (2003-2004); 109th Congress (2005-2006), 110th Congress (2007-2008); 111th Congress (2009-2010). Dr. John R. Vile (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a Professor of Political Science and Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. Vile has written and edited six previous books on the constitutional amending process including the award-winning Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues: 1789-2010, now in its third edition. Vile is also the author of Presidential Winners and Losers: Words of Victory and Concession (2002), The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding (2005), A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, 5th ed. (2010), and Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law, 15th ed. (2010). He is the editor of Great American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia (2001), Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia (2003), and a CD-ROM entitled The History of the American Legal System (1999). He is a coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America (2005), the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (2009), James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman (2008), and of Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (2011). In addition to writing numerous articles and reviews, Vile has authored the introduction for the Lawbook Exchange's 2008 reprint of Noah Webster's Sketches of American Policy.

Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2001 Vol. IV Supplement 2001-2010

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Revised and updated second edition of the most comprehensive encyclopedia of America s founding convention. Now with nearly 400 new and updated entries and over 120 illustrations and maps, this revised and expanded edition of this impressive encyclopedia shows in detail the lively, contentious, four-month process that produced the United States Constitution. With fascinating detailed portraits of the Framers, we are taken behind the scenes into the fiery debates between powerful personalities and the hard-fought battles and compromises that resulted in one of the most important documents in history. Drawing on original sources and a wealth of secondary works and recent scholarship, updated entries and dozens of illuminating side boxes present a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the Constitutional Convention. Features include: --Two chronologies: day-to-day events at the Convention and important dates leading up to it --Detailed individual profiles of the delegates and excerpts from accounts of their debates --Information that brings the events of the Convention to life, such as the delegates salaries, housing, daily schedule, how appointed, their backgrounds, their personal and legislative motivations, the mechanism of how the Convention and its committees worked --How the creation of states, their legislations, plans and constitutions all contributed to the final document --Analysis of Convention discussion of dominant historical and philosophical influences and themes and how and why they were included in the Constitution --A thorough appendix containing original documents and text of important speeches. --Suggested readings for each entry, cross-references, a topical table of contents, an up-to-date and thorough bibliography, index. These two volumes provide a complete guide to a pivotal moment in the formation of the United States the Constitutional Convention that created one of the most important documents in history, the United States Constitution. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding Revised Second Edition (2 vols.)

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