Constitutional Thinking
Series editors: Jeffrey K. Tulis, Sanford Levinson, Emily Zackin, and Mariah Zeisberg
Books in the Constitutional Thinking series develop constitutional theory beyond legalistic concerns by examining such matters as institutional development; public policy; and political behavior, culture, and theory. The editorial approach, then, favors a constitutional theory embracing the full range of activities relevant to the making, maintenance, and reform of constitutions and constitutional cultures.
Address inquiries to David Congdon, Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas: dcongdon@ku.edu
Jeffrey K. Tulis, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin: tulis@mail.utexas.edu
Sanford Levinson, The University of Texas Law School: slevinson@utexas.edu
Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins University: ezackin1@jhu.edu
Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan: zeisberg@umich.edu
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Progressive States' Rights
The Forgotten History of Federalism
Price: $59.95
Pub Date: February 21, 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In Progressive States’ Rights, Sean Beienburg tells an alternative story of federalism by exploring states’ efforts in the years before the New Deal of shaping constitutional discourse to ensure that a protective welfare and regulatory governmental regime would be built in the states rather than the national government.
Habeas Corpus in America
The Politics of Individual Rights
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: December 10, 2023
Format: Paperback
302 Pages
The first study of habeas corpus in an American political context. Reexamines this essential individual right and shows that habeas corpus is not necessarily the check that we’ve assumed—it’s as much a tool of politics as it is of the law.
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders' Union
Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America
Price: $44.95
Pub Date: October 30, 2023
Format: Hardcover
448 Pages
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty
The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War
Price: $47.95
Pub Date: July 7, 2023
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
A Nation So Conceived
Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
Real Americans
National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution
Price: $34.95
Pub Date: February 5, 2022
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
A compelling challenge to the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American; this book shows the language of constitutional devotion has long served to justify hatred, violence, and exclusion.
The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020
Expanded Second Edition
Price: $34.95
Pub Date: December 22, 2021
Format: Paperback
504 Pages
The best one-volume history of the Supreme Court now expanded and timely as America focuses on the relationship between politics and the US Supreme Court. An essential introduction to the history of the Court and American constitutional law.
Repugnant Laws
Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present
Price: $32.50
Pub Date: May 18, 2020
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
The USA may want to believe that the Supreme Court is above politics; in fact the Court is a political institution and operates in a political environment to advance controversial principles, often with the aid of political leaders who sometimes encourage and generally tolerate the judicial nullification of federal laws because it serves their own interests to do so.
Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship
Price: $55.00
Pub Date: May 5, 2020
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
How Lincoln’s vision of the American system made it worthy of the ultimate sacrifice of over 750,000 lives to preserve it.
Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought
Price: $30.00
Pub Date: August 19, 2016
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
The book focuses on the revival of “nullificationist,” or even “secessionist,” arguments, both in the United States and abroad, relative to the authority of national institutions, including courts, over dissenting subnational units or groups of individual citizens.
Progressive States' Rights
The Forgotten History of Federalism
Price: $59.95
Pub Date: February 21, 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In Progressive States’ Rights, Sean Beienburg tells an alternative story of federalism by exploring states’ efforts in the years before the New Deal of shaping constitutional discourse to ensure that a protective welfare and regulatory governmental regime would be built in the states rather than the national government.
Habeas Corpus in America
The Politics of Individual Rights
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: December 10, 2023
Format: Paperback
302 Pages
The first study of habeas corpus in an American political context. Reexamines this essential individual right and shows that habeas corpus is not necessarily the check that we’ve assumed—it’s as much a tool of politics as it is of the law.
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders' Union
Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America
Price: $44.95
Pub Date: October 30, 2023
Format: Hardcover
448 Pages
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty
The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War
Price: $47.95
Pub Date: July 7, 2023
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
A Nation So Conceived
Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
Real Americans
National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution
Price: $34.95
Pub Date: February 5, 2022
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
A compelling challenge to the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American; this book shows the language of constitutional devotion has long served to justify hatred, violence, and exclusion.
The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020
Expanded Second Edition
Price: $34.95
Pub Date: December 22, 2021
Format: Paperback
504 Pages
The best one-volume history of the Supreme Court now expanded and timely as America focuses on the relationship between politics and the US Supreme Court. An essential introduction to the history of the Court and American constitutional law.
Repugnant Laws
Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present
Price: $32.50
Pub Date: May 18, 2020
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
The USA may want to believe that the Supreme Court is above politics; in fact the Court is a political institution and operates in a political environment to advance controversial principles, often with the aid of political leaders who sometimes encourage and generally tolerate the judicial nullification of federal laws because it serves their own interests to do so.
Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship
Price: $55.00
Pub Date: May 5, 2020
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
How Lincoln’s vision of the American system made it worthy of the ultimate sacrifice of over 750,000 lives to preserve it.
Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought
Price: $30.00
Pub Date: August 19, 2016
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
The book focuses on the revival of “nullificationist,” or even “secessionist,” arguments, both in the United States and abroad, relative to the authority of national institutions, including courts, over dissenting subnational units or groups of individual citizens.