Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Constitution Day ~ September 17th



There will be a celebration of Constitution Day in the Loudoun campus library on Monday, September 17th, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend. There will be an displays on the Constitution for everyone to review and discuss.


We hope everyone will stop by and select a book or DVD!

Constitutional Materials on Display now:

Fallon, Richard H. The Dynamic Constitution. Call #KF4550 .F35 2004. From the catalog: The US Constitution is by no means just a fragile nut-brown document left in a nice glass case at the end of some corridor. Fallon (constitutional law, Harvard Law School) focuses on the social impact of the Constitution, and he begins with its original design and describes the theories and processes of judicial review.

Breyer, Stephen. Active Liberty. Call #KF4552 .B74 2005. From the catalog:This book, based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term "active liberty" as a sharing of the nation's sovereign authority with its citizens.




Amar, Akhill Reed. America's Constitution: A Biography. Call #KF4541 A87 2005. From the inside cover: In America's Constitution, one of the era's most accomplished constitutional -law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar gives a panoramic account of one of the world's greatest texts.





The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, Second Edition. Hall, Kermit L. (Editor in Chief). Call #REF KF8742 .A35 O93 2005. From the catalog: This book, based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term "active liberty" as a sharing of the nation's sovereign authority with its citizens.


Additional items on Display:

The Amendments to the Constitution, DVD, Call # AV KF4557 .A44x v. 1 - 3, 2006

Video Resources on the Constitution, DVD, Reserve item - Library Office

More books on the Constitution are featured in a special display!

Refreshments will be served!

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