The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

by Markus Dirk Dubber (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $47.51

  This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens. Dubber explores the roots of the power to police-the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers-by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law.

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $105.13

  This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens. Dubber explores the roots of the power to police-the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers-by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law.