Expertly guides readers through the Constitution and its twenty-seven amendments
In lively prose, Ackerman and Ginsberg explain the origins of each constitutional provision. They assess the ways in which each has been used and interpreted over time. And they examine the controversies that continue to surround key constitutional principles."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Erin Ackerman is the Social Sciences Librarian and an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at The College of New Jersey. She formerly taught political science at John Jay College, the City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests include American law and politics, gender and politics, and information literacy in the social sciences. Her research has appeared in several academic journals, including the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Law & Society Review. She is also the author of a chapter in They Say / I Say on writing in the social sciences.
Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of 25 books, including Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced; Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public; Politics by Other Means; The Consequences of Consent; The Worth of War; and The Captive Public. Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell. His most recent books are The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters; What the Government Thinks of the People; and Analytics, Policy and Governance.
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