Clinton's study of the origins of judicial review is very interesting despite some major weaknesses. His attempt to understand what the Framers of the Constitution believed judicial review to be would be much stronger with more detail to the controversies raging within states just after ratification about judicial review. This is because he depends heavily upon his assertion that Marbury was consistent with the generally understood meaning of judicial review that the Framers shared. If there was no generally understood meaning about judicial review, then his hypothesis suffers a major blow.

Finally, a Power Pack book. I had searched far and wide but I was not able to find a book that could serve my needs for Mechanical Desktop. Then I found this Power Pack book and it is great. It has a friendly format and it will definately come in handy for the next class that I have to teach.

I occasionally teach Soviet KGB History. I tell my students that I am pretty much a poor substitute for this book, and I make them read it.

There is no better book on KGB history.

This self-help book allows the reader to understand in layman terms certain powers and provisions needed for wills, proxies, etc without the need for an attorney. The forms in the back are easy to understand and can be copied which is beneficial to the user. The forms are also humorous in nature as well. This do-it-yourself handbook is a necessary tool for anyone looking for quick and helpful information.

At first, I thought this would be of interest only to academics, but then I was amazed to read so many real life anecdotes and terrifying stories of people whose lives were ruined by getting or giving the silent treatment.

This was an excellent book!

The Political Theory of Jon Taylor of Caroline is book which should be on the shelf of any Jeffersonian.Professor Hill provides in detail the complete political theory of John Taylor
and his defense of agarianism.The author provides information on
Taylor's relationship with other Jeffersonians and how they
fought to implement limited government. My only disagreement
is that too much emphasis is put on minor differences with
Taylor's friend and collaborator, Thomas Jefferson.Although it

is true Taylor and Jefferson disagreed on minor points of
banking, he and Jefferson were friends and kindred spirits.

Jefferson and Taylor agreed on the fundementals of republican
government: agrarian democracy, the sovereignty of the people
limited federal government, reform of the federal judiciary,
and individual liberty. They did very much disagree on the
issue of slavery. Taylor reamined loyal to Jefferson
throughout his political life, twice being an elector
for him, and introducing the Virginia Resolutions in the
Virginia Legislature in 1799. Professor Hill does show
Taylor's greatness as an American philosopher.
Overall an excellent read.

Lyons probes deeply into the various and overlapping political struggles behind efforts to reinvent policing in the United States. The analysis focuses on the community side of policing reform, which is a welcome antidote to the overwhelmingly police-centered literature most often found in this field.

In Lyon's study, it was community groups that first mobilized to pressure the police to do things differently. These communities wanted geographic integrity, police-community partnerships to jointly target criminal activity, and more attention to order maintenance and police accountability. These citizens, for reasons that are thoroughly documented in this marvelous study, succeeded in pressuring a reluctant police department to create partnerships and experiment with innovative patrol strategies. They persuaded the city to hire a new police chief, known nationally for his leadership in community policing. These efforts initially paid off: crime declined.

Lyons skillfully explains the interactions among the loose coalitions of citizen groups and between these groups and police officers or administrators. He then draws valuable lessons about effective policing from the kinds of reciprocal partnerships that community mobilization created. This book is a must read for anyone, citizen or officer, interested in the promise of community policing and the political forces that can undermine this promise. At the same time, the failures documented in this study are the most impressive and insightful contributions of this book. While citizens did succeed in the ways noted, their success was short lived and, Lyons argues, the atrophy of their initial partnerships and patrol innovations now stand as significant obstacles to the advancement of community policing. Instead of reciprocal partnerships that improve the effectiveness and accountability of policing these partnerships have evolved into organizations dominated by the police department that serve to make it more difficult for communities, especially those critical of police practices, to be heard. The marginalization of those communities already most victimized by crime is the most important finding in this study.

i used this text book in my final year engineering project and i found it to be a very halpful book aaaamong many others that i read in my final year project design work.

I happen to live in the town and house where John Secor made his fame and fortune. This story is of special interest to me for this reason.

The book is rather dry in the beginning, because I am not involved in his geneaology, however it is meticulous in tracing his roots.

Secor followed his father's footsteps as an engineer, educated in the New York Public School System no less.

He goes on to invent many items which were prede-cessors to rocket propulsion.

Quarrier's Village Inverclyde, also known as Quarrier's Homes, this village was built in the late 19th Century by the philanthropist William Quarrier who aimed to care for 'destitute children', mainly from Glasgow; it also became a centre to care for people with epilepsy. Today about 200 people are cared for by the Quarrier's Homes organisation. There is a craft centre, coffee house, museum and heritage trail for visitors. William Quarrier 1829 - 1903 - Founder of Quarrier's Homes for orphans in Scotland. Born in Cross Shore Street Greenock in 1829. Numerous homes in Glasgow sent destitute youngsters to Canada where receiving centres placed them within suitable families. Formed various orphan homes in Glasgow before the Orphan Homes of Scotland were built between Bridge of Weir and Kilmacolm between 1876-78. Laid out like a small town with school; post office shop; farm community and even its own hospital. In 1929 when the tenement in Cross Shore was demolished the archway entrance to the house was saved and rebuilt as the War Memorial at Quarrier's Homes.