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• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 04 September 2014

In the spring of 1789, the Senate and House of Representatives fell into dispute regarding how to address the president. For Fear of an Elective King is Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon's rich account

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 December 2017

This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early

• Publisher : Modern Library
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• Release Date : 16 October 2018

Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today. Impeachment is

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
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• Release Date : 05 August 2016

Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 07 April 2020

The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet—the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 09 March 2018

Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders

• Publisher : University Press of Kansas
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• Release Date : 23 October 2020

Donald Trump’s election has forced the United States to reckon with not only the political power of the presidency, but also how he and his supporters have used the

• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
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• Release Date : 15 April 2024

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the

• Publisher : Black Inc.
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• Release Date : 24 January 2018

‘Australia was born in chains and is not yet fully free’ —John Hirst In this crisp yet comprehensive book, Benjamin T. Jones explores Australia’s long republican history and boldly

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 09 September 2015

The book liberates James Madison from Madisonian Constitutionalism and focuses on Madison's treatment of the problem of constitutional imperfection.