Political Law

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    • Federal Courts and the Law
    • By: Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann - editor foreword
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. But is this common-law mindset suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation? Justice Scalia answers this question with a resounding negative....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,813 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • A Very Short Introduction Series
    • By: David J. Bodenhamer
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Informed by the latest scholarship and exploring the major themes that have shaped American constitutional history, this book places constitutional history within the context of American political and social history.....

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    • By: Frédéric Bastiat
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 647 ratings
    • First published as a pamphlet in 1850 in response to the socialist-communist plans and ideas being adopted in France at that time, The Law remains equally relevant today....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Raymond Wacks
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality....

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    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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    • The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
    • By: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation....

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    • The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
    • By: James Q. Whitman
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes....

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    • By: Frederic Bastiat
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • The Law was originally published as a pamphlet in French in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat....

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    • Roe v. Wade to the Present
    • By: Mary Ziegler
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate....

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    • A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    • By: Richard Rothstein
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,650 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

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    • Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage. The acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently....

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    • The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
    • By: Edward B. Foley
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this authoritative history of the American Electoral College system, Edward Foley analyzes the consequences of the unparalleled departure from the Jeffersonians' original intent - and delineates what we can do about it....

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    • By: Myron Magnet
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written - the one that had established a federal government....

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    • The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
    • By: Jeffrey Rosen
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives....

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    • The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion
    • By: Katie Watson
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In public discussion, both proponents and opponents of abortion's legality tend to focus on extraordinary cases. Scarlet A gives the reflective listener a more accurate impression of what the majority of American abortion practice really looks like....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 28 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations....

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