American Government: Readings and Cases - Tapa blanda

Features:

This new edition provides new content on both historic context and modern examples of the reading of the Constitution.

• Includes the 2008 Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush, upholding the authority of federal courts to issue writs of habeas corpus to enemy aliens.
• A new reading on the role of interest groups in government, an issue raised throughout the 2008 presidential election and one of Barack Obama's key talking points.
• A provocative new reading on the democratic paradox of campaign finance reform, a contentious issue in the 2008 presidential election between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.
• A new section on the right to vote with the classic case Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960) on racial discrimination in voting.
• Presidential scholar Edward S. Corwin contributes an article contrasting constitutional perspectives on presidential power.
• A new reading focuses on James Madison's views at the Constitutional Convention on the role of federalism in a balanced governmental system, and a 1890 article from the Harvard Law Review discusses the constitutional basis of privacy.