Political System

From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi’s legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby D …

Winner of the 2023 Virginia Literary Award in Nonfiction, awarded by the Library of Virginia The transformation of Governor Ralph Northam Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s ‘blackface scandal’ could h …

In Search of George Washington (The Story of the 28th Amendment) chronicles the amazing flashback that was the ‘Prairie Fire’ that swept the country over 18 months in 2012 and 2013. See how America c …

The recall, or ‘election in reverse, ‘ is meant to allow voters to remove an elected official from office prior to the completion of his/her term in office. In this revised second edition of The Reca …

The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as ‘phonegate’, that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990’s in which a number of legislators were found to have been abu …

In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities acros …

Congress possesses broad regulatory powers, including the power of complete or partial preemption of state and local regulatory powers. Congress rarely enacted preemption statutes before the twentiet …

Cooperative interstate relations are essential for maintaining the economic and political union established by the United States Constitution. Despite this importance, interstate compacts, federal-st …

I have written this book as a way to vent my frustrations and anger caused by the way our federal government looks upon and treats the average citizens of this country. We are nothing but pawns that …

From the first Cheese Day in 1874 to the Great Limburger War of 1935, author Duane H. Freitag peers into the nooks and crannies of the tumultuous political history of Green County, Wisconsin. In this …