Key Constitutional Concepts

Key Constitutional Concepts
Author: Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
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Release: 2006
Genre: Constitution
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Three 20-minute videos examine key constitutional concepts. Part One: Creating a Constitution (explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution). Part Two: One Man Changes the Constitution (describes the protection of individual rights and affirms the right to an attorney). Part Three: Checks and Balances (explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case concerning President Truman's decision to take over steel mills during the Korean War.

Key Constituional Concepts

Key Constituional Concepts
Author: The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
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These three 20 minute videos examine key constitutional concepts. The first explains why the nations's framers created the Constitution. The second describes the protection of individual rights by highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gideon V. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The last explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case of Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take over steel mills during the Korean War.

The Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts

The Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts
Author: Robert L. Maddex
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2022-02-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136217681

Providing definitions and historical background for more than three hundred key concepts and words, The Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts is the first comprehensive reference to terms used around the world. The book also shows, with excerpts, how these concepts and terms are implemented in their respective constitutions. This timely resource also provides biographical profiles of some fifty people - philosophers as well as national leaders - whose ideas and actions have helped form constitutions worldwide. The Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts is lavishly illustrated with over 280 blacka and white photos and illustrations of various concepts, people and places throughout the world. The volume include explanations of words and terms that appear in constitutions or are reflected in the structure of governments, from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Each term is placed in its historical perspectiveand, where relevant, its etymology is given. To illustrate how they are used, appropriate excerpts from current national constitutions are provided at the end of each entry.

A Patriot's Call to Action

A Patriot's Call to Action
Author: Jim Delaney
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1483660141

A Patriot’s Call to Action will enable busy Americans to more easily square today’s unending political palaver and double-talk with our Constitution’s original intent. In bite-sized form, this eminently readable book clearly summarizes some key constitutional concepts, like the Supremacy Clause, the Welfare Clause, Nullification, Executive Orders, Impeachment, Secession, etc., which will enable the reader to distinguish between politically correct, agenda-driven interpretations of the Constitution and what our Founders actually intended. Given the complacency gripping the country and the political ruling class’s brazen circumvention of foundational Constitutional restraints, the author fearlessly and unambiguously reminds us of our God-given rights, authority and responsibilities as citizens of a republic, and outlines a commonsense action plan for restoring constitutional order. The author posits that too many Americans are conditioned to the “benefits” of collectivism and the seductive, yet empty, promises of a suffocatingly expansive central government. Uninformed and seduced by the razzle-dazzle of self-serving political elites, many Americans have carelessly permitted our government to lead us on the path toward economic ruin and political oppression—developments which would have dumbfounded and enraged our Founding Fathers. The author unflinchingly asserts that to believe we are a republic today is foolhardy at best, delusional at worst. Absent bold grassroots remedies, the author asserts that our wealth, our way of life, our liberties will surely go the way of the dinosaurs. If you’re looking for simple-minded validation of your political party affiliation, this book isn’t for you. Some of what the author says will rankle, but it will make you think and, hopefully, will encourage you to take action to restore and safeguard those principles and practices which made America history’s most productive experiment in self-government.