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Offers invaluable historical, empirical, philosophical, and analytical insight into the American constitutional heritage of religious liberty. Contributors guide us through the legacy of religious freedom, from America's founding to the waves of immigration that added successive layers of diversity to American society.

The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbour. Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of a decision that was a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights.

The US Supreme Court's 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State's minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. In Making Minimum Wage, Helen Knowles tells the human story behind this historic case.

This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional view and deeper appreciation of the ways that our physical surroundings manifest who we are as a people and what we value as a society.

As fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more pressure, and as the country's politics give way to divisive, partisan extremes, this book responds to the critical political challenge of our time: the need to return to some conception of shared principles as a basis for citizenship and governance.

As fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more pressure, and as the country's politics give way to divisive, partisan extremes, this book responds to the critical political challenge of our time: the need to return to some conception of shared principles as a basis for citizenship and governance.