A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition)
by William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his work to end the slave trade. Elected to Parliament in 1780, he campaigned unsuccessfully for penal and electoral reform. In 1787, at the encouragement of William Pitt, he took up the cause of abolition at Westminster, but humanitarian and ethical arguments were slow to overcome the economic interests of those who had made fortunes from the slave trade or the use of slave labour. It...
Teaching about the Constitution
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
by John Adams
Scotland faces its biggest choice since the 1707 union - should Scotland be an independent country? The Yes and No campaigns are well under way but with the vote looming closer the information available to the public is still limited. The Scottish people will have to make their own judgments, and so they need to have the issues explained as clearly as possible without spin or bias. What will happen after the referendum? How will Westminster and the rest of the UK respond? What happens if the v...
Course Revision and Examination Preparation
by Lorna Hardwick, Chris Emlyn-Jones, Colin Cunningham, and J. Purkis
John Marshall and the Constitution a Chronicle of the Supreme Court
by Edward S Corwin
The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Healthcare Reform
by Andrew Koppelman
The legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law, is quite possibly the most momentous Supreme Court case on the issue of federal power in our era. Yet, despite the Court's ruling, the issue of health care reform is still an incredibly divisive issue. For the left, the federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce, and the health insurance industry surely falls under the definition of interstate commerce. For conservatives, th...
With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, the proposed federal Constitution of 1787 faced an uncertain future when it was sent to the states for ratification. Sensing an historic moment, three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay - circulated 85 essays among their fellow statesmen, arguing for a strong federal union. Next to the Constitution itself, the Federalist Papers are the most referenced statement of...
Comprendre l'Arnaque capitaliste, Imaginer le Systeme d'Apres !
by Dominique Gagnot
Amendment XXVI: Lowering the Voting Age (Constitutional Amendments: Beyond the Bill of Rights)
Domination and Reaction in Nupeland, Central Nigeria (African Studies, v. 15)
by Aliyu Alhaji Idrees
"...boldness of enterprise is the foremost cause of (America's) progress, its strength, and its greatness." With that succinct statement a young French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, expressed his perceptive analysis of the United States, following a nine-month tour of the young republic beginning in May of 1831. His remarkable two-volume study, Democracy in America, presented an insight that has withstood the test of time to the extent of being described by many scholars as the finest treat...