AS: Paralegal/Legal Assisting: Federal & Constitutional

Coverage of major Supreme Court decisions through the end of the 2013-2014 term. Information on the Constitution, its amendments, and how they have been interpreted.
* Includes copies of the U.S. Constitution and Its Amendments, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation

This five-volume resource provides exciting details on key events, people and outcomes of approximately 200 major Supreme Court decisions that had a significant impact on American society.

Before Supreme Court nominees are allowed take their place on the high Court, they must face a moment of democratic reckoning by appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Despite the potential this holds for public input into the direction of legal change, the hearings are routinely derided as nothing but empty rituals and political grandstanding. In this book, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present a contrarian view that uses both empirical data and stories culled from more than seventy years of transcripts to demonstrate that the hearings are a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change. As such, they are one of the ways in which "We the People" take ownership of the Constitution by examining the core constitutional values of those permitted to interpret it on our behalf.