Government Law

This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" and "The Law of Peoples", a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times.

You keep secrets from the world. But did you know your own body keeps secrets from you? Right now, as you listen to this sentence, your immune system is waging a war you will never feel. Your cells are partitioning information with a sophistication that would humble the CIA. Your brain—that magnificent engine of curiosity—is processing ten billion bits per second while graciously allowing you to be aware of roughly fifty. The rest? Classified. Need-to-know basis. And you, apparently, do not need to know. Secrecy is not a human invention.

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues in political and economic philosophy. More specifically, the problem of law that itself violates law is an insurmountable conundrum of all statist philosophies. The problem has never been discussed so profoundly and passionately as in this essay by Frederic Bastiat from 1850. This essay might have been written today. It applies to our own time.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel’s most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team’s history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump’s...

One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) is generally considered one of the two greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court. In more than 2000 opinions, he delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Holmes systematized his legal doctrines.

This updated classic offers clear and concise explanations of the basic legal concepts of government contract law for professionals at any stage of their career. In straightforward language for contracting officers, contract administrators, contractors, subcontractors, and others in the procurement field, this new edition has been updated with new cases and regulations.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax American Government 3e audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael Beschloss In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and...

From Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, the story of an immigrant father and the radicalized son he lost first to al Qaeda, then to two decades in CIA black sites and Guantanamo Bay’s notorious Camp VII—a landmark work of investigative reporting that uncovers the operational...

Dr. Montgomery, in two lectures, looks at select legal issues raised in recent books and movies, analyzing and critiquing the efforts by Marxists and legal positivists to establish credible bases for human rights.

The Anarchist Collection brings together major works by Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman, two of the most influential figures in the history of anarchist thought. The collection is a wide-ranging introduction to classic anarchist theory and its enduring challenge to centralized power.

In Blackonomics, veteran business reporter Sonari Glinton upends conventional wisdom about the economy by exposing how racism harms it and revealing how equal access to markets is the only way to save it. Sonari Glinton has often been the only Black man in the room reporting on major news events...

Die AfD ist in Deutschland auf dem Vormarsch. Alle, die sich um eine demokratische Zukunft unseres Landes sorgen, suchen händeringend nach Strategien und Werkzeugen für ihre alltägliche Praxis in Vereinen, Betrieben, Schulen und Familien. Dieses Buch klärt auf und bietet handfesten Rat, was wir alle ganz konkret in unserem Alltag tun können.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax American Government 4e audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. The OpenStax American Government 4e audio textbook aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. The authors...

Why do people help each other when nobody makes them? Why does a group of homeless strangers, addicts, and outcasts—left in a house in the forest with no rules, no schedules, and no authority—quietly organize themselves into a functioning community? And why does that community often work better than the ones designed by experts? In Cooperation as a Law of Nature, Boris Kriger traces a single explosive idea from the Siberian wilderness of the nineteenth century to the frontiers of modern science: mutual aid is not a moral achievement.

The First ADA Title II Case Against the Nevada Department of Corrections is a firsthand account of one man’s fight for disability rights inside one of the nation’s most restrictive correctional systems. Drawing from official records, filings, and lived experience, Andreas Gabriel Yescas documents how a simple request for medical accommodation escalated into a landmark ADA Title II challenge. This book walks listeners through the timeline of events, the evidence submitted, and the legal obstacles faced along the way.

"The Law", Bastiat's most famous work, argues that the purpose of the law is the protection of individual rights, and that when governments adopt policies favoring particular industries or groups, the law becomes an instrument of injustice and oppression.

An innocent woman goes deep undercover to hunt down those responsible for her family’s death in Mark Burnell's The Rhythm Section, an action-packed international thriller—and the basis for the major motion picture from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake...

How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time? Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and...