Douglas W. Kmiec -- at one time head of the Office of Legal Counsel to President Reagan -- is credited with helping win a sizeable Catholic majority in key electoral states for Barack Obama in 2008. Until recently, he served as U.S. Ambassador winning the confidence of his embassy and the profound admiration and high praise of his host country, the Republic of Malta. Nevertheless, Ambassador Kmiec offered to resign rather than allow his efforts to be undermined by the State Department bureaucracy contrary to his publicly announced White House portfolio to advance inter-faith diplomacy and understanding. The Department rushed to accept as the White House stayed bafflingly silent. Was the Department miffed at Kmiec's UN presentation describing Obama as a genuine honest broker in Arab-Israeli relations? Why did the White House not "have the back" of its scholarly ally? Today, when the culture war is defining the Republican ticket and the President is accused of starting a "war on religion" at home while abroad he is confronted by an understandably anxious Israel fearful that the President's reliance on diplomacy and sanctions will not corral Iran, a book written with grace, objectivity and charity toward one's opponents is a surprisingly welcome tonic from all the noise and deserves notice. In a genre that is at once biography, political commentary, and religious reflection, the book ties these seemingly disparate features of our lives together with success. The Romney and Santorum teams would like nothing better if they could win back the conservative, pro-life Catholic who served in the top ranks of the Reagan administration, but today Doug Kmiec remains Obama's Faith-filled Ambassador and fully expects the President to win a second term. Find out why. Here is the Ambassador’s poignant recounting of the cost paid for his Obama support as well as the tragic deaths that now shape the rest of his time on earth. Together with actor Martin Sheen's spot-on foreword, the account will bring tears, laughter, even outrage, but by virtue of Kmiec’s recounting of a Theology of Kindness, the book by sheer force of friendships won and lost has the potential to change your life for the better and elevate all of our political discourse. Read the book that Sojourner's Jim Wallis, NCR's Michael Sean Winters, and other open-minded faith and political leaders have described as "honest," "powerful." and "deeply compelling," from the author LATimes Tim Rutten found to be a "muzzled diplomat" seeking only to bring our politics into touch with civility, common ground, and "our better angels."

Lift Up Your Hearts: A True Story of Loving One's Enemies; Tragically Killing One's Friends, & the Life That Remains

Biographies & Memoirs

DOUGLAS W. KMIEC

Leaders & Notable People

Embassy International Press

The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution

Lexis&Nexis

This looseleaf handbook covers every phase of zoning, subdivision control, and land use planning. The work presents practical materials on how to obtain administrative permits and how to plan and implement development permission strategies.

Zoning and Planning Deskbook

Clark, Boardman, Callaghan

This practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles reflect consensus opinions, but the book also discusses points of dissent. It includes detailed summaries of more than fifty U.S. Supreme Court cases affecting land-use planning, along with a comprehensive table of contents, a cross-referenced index, three matricies that relate sections of the book to one another, and a summary of constitutional principles that relates them to land-use planning techniques. All of these features make it easy to locate key constitutional principles quickly. This book is the result of a 1987 symposium that brought together two dozen leading practitioners and scholars in the fields of planning and law.

Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practice (AICP Handbook)

Daniel R. Mandelker

Brian W. Blaesser

Clyde W. Forrest

Alan C. Weinstein

Norman Williams Jr.

Humor & Entertainment

Planners Press

2007 Supplement to the Second Edition of - The American Constitutional Order History, Cases, and Philosophy; the History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution; Individual Rights and the American Constitution

LexisNexis

The new edition of The American Constitutional Order is designed for a four- to six-semester-hour course on Constitutional Law covering both the structural features of the Constitution as well as individual rights. This book includes ample historical materials, lengthy explanatory notes, both introducing and following cases, and employs exemplar or principal cases rather than merely cumulating redundant examples. The American Constitutional Order is a book with an explicit point of view. In the colloquial, a book with an attitude--namely, that history counts, and that within this American story is a premise of the protection of fundamental natural rights. The authors do not expect every instructor to share their perspective, but they do make this honest pedagogical point: all books have a point of view. Staking out territory in favor of the aspiration of the rule of law and American historical antecedents in fresh ways, this book stimulates thinking and classroom instruction--whether an instructor wishes to travel with, or teach against, the authors' premises.

The American Constitutional Order: History, Cases, and Philosophy Third Edition

STEPHEN B. PRESSER

JOHN C. EASTMAN

Raymond B. Marcin

The Third Edition of The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution is designed for a two- or three-semester-hour course on the historical and philosophical antecedents as well as the case law of the separation of powers and federalism. It links the "roots" of the American government to its structural design. 
The book is designed to meet the needs of professors of political science, government, history, and public policy by supplying a casebook that is at once accessible to study by virtue of generous chapter overviews, skillful case selection and editing, and extended introductions and following notes and questions. In addition, out of abundant respect for the rich intellectual tradition that exists within the university, this book fully reflects that Supreme Court cases emerge from history, and history itself reflects centuries of political and philosophical understanding. 
This book is supplemented annually.

The Third Edition of Individual Rights and the American Constitution is designed for a two- or three-semester-hour course on the intellectual sources of and cases dealing with individual human rights, including especially religion, speech, and economic liberties, as well as the concepts of due process and equality. This book explores how government power is expressly or impliedly limited to protect individual interests in religious exercise, speech, the freedom from irrational discrimination, and autonomy, as well as economic liberty. It is designed to meet the needs of professors of political science, government, history, and public policy by supplying a casebook that is at once accessible to study by virtue of generous chapter overviews, skillful case selection and editing, and extended introductions and following notes and questions. In addition, out of abundant respect for the rich intellectual tradition that exists within the university, this book fully reflects that Supreme Court cases emerge from history, and history itself reflects centuries of political and philosophical understanding. The coverage of Individual Rights and the American Constitution includes: Chapter 1: The Declaration and Its Constitution Chapter 2: A Government Respectful of Individual Conscience Chapter 3: A Fair Government Chapter 4A Government Commitment to Freedom Chapter 5: A Government Commitment to Equality Chapter 6: A Government of Imperfect KnowledgeOf Inkblots, Liberty, and Life Itself.

Individual Rights and the American Constitution

Constitutional Law

PLEASE NOTE: My pictures I have posted above.  ISBN: 9781422494837.   ***The American Constitutional Order: The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution/Individual Rights and The American Constitution*** 3rd Edition, by Douglas W. Kmiec, Stephen B. Presser, John C. Eastman, and Raymond B. Marcin.  Copyright 2011 by LexisNexis.

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Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

This heavily discounted, three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version of the hardbound book is printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book. 
The Fourth Edition of The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution is designed for a two- or three-semester-hour course on the historical and philosophical antecedents as well as the case law of the separation of powers and federalism. It links the "roots" of the American government to its structural design. 
The book is designed to meet the needs of professors of political science, government, history, and public policy by supplying a casebook that is at once accessible to study by virtue of generous chapter overviews, skillful case selection and editing, and extended introductions and following notes and questions. In addition, out of abundant respect for the rich intellectual tradition that exists within the university, this book fully reflects that Supreme Court cases emerge from history, and history itself reflects centuries of political and philosophical understanding.

The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution (2014 Loose-leaf version)

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Lift Up Your Hearts: A True Story of Loving One's Enemies; Tragically Killing One's Friends, & the Life That Remains

The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution

Zoning and Planning Deskbook

Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practice (AICP Handbook)

2007 Supplement to the Second Edition of - The American Constitutional Order History, Cases, and Philosophy; the History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution; Individual Rights and the American Constitution

The American Constitutional Order: History, Cases, and Philosophy Third Edition

The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution

Individual Rights and the American Constitution

AMERICAN CONSTIT.ORDER-COMBINE

The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution (2014 Loose-leaf version)