Crucible of Liberty

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The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period. Now, in time for the bicentennial celebration of this great document, seven distinguished scholars combine their expertise to explore the history and contemporary meaning of these first ten amendments to the Constitution.

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Paradox Politics: People and Power in Idaho

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Here is the story of Idaho's power brokers, those well-known and those behind the scenes, and the story of Idaho politics up to 1988 - of well-known figures like Cecil Andrus, Robert Smylie, Frank Church, Jim MCclure, and many others - and the backroom players most Idahoans never heard of, like Lloyd Adams and Tom McCall. In this new edition, the author provides more than 100 notes updating and expanding on the original text.

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Chronicle of Murder: A Chronological Analysis of Murder

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The 20th century saw the rise of the motiveless murder and the serial killer, the development of forensic science, and the use of DNA and psychological profiling as weapons against such killers. In Chronicle of Murder, true crime expert Brian Lane examines, year by year, from 1900 onward, every major murder case in the light of its investigative, forensic, social or legal significance. In over 200 cases listed, there are not only landmark cases for criminologists but also grim highlights of popular mythology. The roll call includes Charles Manson, Bonnie and Clyde, the Zodiac Killer, the Hillside Strangler, Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, Jeffrey Dahmer, and many more. Also, here is the notable case of the last woman to be hanged in Britain, convicted murderer Ruth Ellis, whose execution hastened the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. More recent crimes include the shooting of Gianni Versace by Andrew Cunanan, the murder of Alberto Adriano in Germany by killers dressed as neo-Nazis, and Britain’s Sky-Diving case in which the sabotage of Steven Hilder’s parachute caused him to fall to his death. This is a compelling catalog of our most desperate outlaws and society’s desperate attempts to capture and comprehend them.

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Better an Honest Scoundrel: Chronicles of a Western Lawman

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The life and times of Stephen Watts, a police officer turned private detective. This fascinating book chronicles Watt's time in the law enforcement profession, from street cop to Federal Investigator.

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Introduction to Law for Paralegals: A Critical Thinking Approach

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Now in its fourth edition, the highly successful Introduction to Law for Paralegals continues to offer paralegal students and instructors a well-rounded and accessible introduction to the legal system, the paralegal s role and the skills involved, as well as to substantive law issues. Using a critical thinking approach, this outstanding author team provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts covered in introduction to law courses.

Experienced authors and educators, Currier and Eimermann skillfully present their materials in a way that facilitates teaching and learning. This text offers a comprehensive, intelligent overview of all the key concepts covered in a typical introduction to law course. A critical thinking approach that introduces students to the study of law and encourages them to interact with the materials through hypotheticals, examples, and well-designed questions.

Three parts that reflect the topics addressed in an introductory course: Part I, Paralegals and the American Legal System, introduces students to the role of the paralegal, sources and classification of law, the structure of the court system, and an overview of litigation. Part II, Finding and Analyzing the Law, offers an overview of the basics of legal analysis, research and writing. Part III, Legal Ethics and Substantive Law, covers substantive law.
The basic skills necessary to understand statutes and court cases. Teaching and learning aids that include ethics alerts, marginal definitions, Internet references, and legal reasoning exercises throughout the book. Material presented in an accessible and well-organized format. Substantive law chapters that use edited cases to teach students how to read and analyze the law. Appendices on good writing, citation, excerpts from the U.S. Constitution, Ethical Codes, and additional Net Notes. Enhancements in the Fourth Edition include:
Chapter 6 on Litigation is reorganized, making this material even easier to teach. The chapter now begins with a discussion of ADR and integrates the use of case studies.
New or expanded coverage of: federal powers and preemption, judicial selection, domain names, electronic discovery, email, contingency fees, intentional interference with a contractual relationship, caps on damages, interpretation of contracts, eminent domain, collaborative divorces, sperm & egg donations, same-sex unions, sentencing guidelines, habeas corpus, and citing of unpublished opinions.
Discussion of recently decided high-interest cases including Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. (use of racial criteria in school assignments), Phillip Morris v. Williams (punitive damages), Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire (statute of limitations for employment discrimination claims), Scott v. Harris (police use of excessive force), Hudson v. Michigan (exclusionary rule), Brendlin v. California (sentencing guidelines), Bowles v. Russell (habeas corpus in death penalty cases), Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (habeas corpus in terrorism cases), and Rumsfeld v. Padilla (habeas corpus in terrorism cases) Updated Internet references throughout the book.
New legal reasoning exercises included.
Introduction to Law for Paralegals, Fourth Edition, classroom tested and acclaimed, is an unparalleled teaching tool for the introduction to law course.

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The Company We Kept: Tribes of No Continuing Place

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From the Introduction: The Company We Kept highlights the patriarchal manipulation by Zonian men of a group of young women athletes whose swimming and diving hopes to gain a place on the 1948 Olympics American team are threatened by the twists and turns of a trial wherein two criminals must be punished, accused and accuser, for unacceptable "miscegenation." This fictional trial fills in the bare outline of a real legal procedure in a Zone historic trial, highly problematic, which led to shifts in the political terrain. In the work of imagination the white woman's retraction of the allegation of rape comes as a consequence of a nightmare induced by the addition of an ingredient into her lunch by the West-Indian staff of the mental hospital in which she is placed for "psychosomatic laryngitis." In the dream she is tried by the rainforest creatures of Panama and brought to a high level of conscience by the nightmare lynching of her Jamaican lover.

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Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994

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Built on in-depth interviews with movement leaders and the records of key abolitionist organizations, this work traces the struggle against capital punishment in the United States since 1972. Haines reviews the legal battles that led to the short-lived suspension of the death penalty and examines the subsequent conservative turn in the courts that has forced death penalty opponents to rely less on litigation strategies and more on political action. Employing social movement theory, he diagnoses the causes of the anti-death penalty movement's inability to mobilize widespread opposition to executions, and he makes pointed recommendations for improving its effectiveness. For this edition Haines has included a new Afterword in which he summarizes developments in the movement since 1994.

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