Constitutional Law for a Changing America : A Short Course /: A Short Course. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lee Epstein, Thomas G. Walker.
• Authors: Epstein, Lee, 1958-; Walker, Thomas G, 1945-
• Contents: Chronological Table of Cases; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Preface; PART I: The U.S. Constitution; An Introduction to the U.S. Constitution; The Road to the U.S. Constitution; Underlying Principles of the Constitution; Chpater 1: The Living Constitution; The Amendment Process; The Supreme Court and the Living Constitution; Readings; Chapter 2: Understanding the Supreme Court; Processing Supreme Court Cases; Supreme Court Decision Making: The Role of Law and Legal Methods; Supreme Court Decision Making: The Role of Politics; Conducting Research on the Supreme Court; Readings; PART II: Institutional Authority; Structuring the Federal System; Origins of the Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances System; Separation of Powers and the Constitution; Chapter 3: The Judiciary; Establishment of the Federal Judiciary; Judicial Review; Marbury v. Madison (1803); Constraints on Judicial Power; Ex Parte McCardle (1869); Readings; Chapter 4: The Legislature; Article I: Historical Overview; Members of Congress: Qualifications, Immunity, and Discipline; U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (1995); The Sources and Scope of Legislative Powers; McCulloch v. Maryland (1819); United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936); Congress and the Separation of Powers; Mistretta v. United States (1989); Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983); Readings; Chapter 5: The Executive; Selection and Formal Powers; The Domestic Powers of the President; Clinton v. City of New York (1998); United States v. Nixon (1974); Clinton v. Jones (1997); The President and Foreign Affairs; Korematsu v. United States (1944); Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952); Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004); Readings; PART III: Nation-State Relations; Allocating Government Power; The Framers and Federalism; The Allocation of Government Power; Chapter 6: Federalism: An Introduction; State Sovereignty and the Tenth Amendment; McCulloch v. Maryland (1819); The Taney Court and the (Re)Emergence of States’ Rights; Dual Federalism and Laissez-Faire Economics; The (Re)Emergence of National Supremacy: Cooperative Federalism; Return of (a Milder Form of) Dual Federalism; Printz v. United States (1997); The Eleventh Amendment; Readings; Chapter 7: The Commerce Power; Foundations of the Commerce Power; Gibbons v. Ogden (1824); Attempts to Define the Commerce Power in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution; Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918); The Supreme Court and the New Deal; A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935); National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937); The Era of Expansive Commerce Clause Jurisprudence; United States v. Darby (1941); Wicked v. Filburn (1942); Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964); Limits on the Commerce Power: The Republican Court Era; Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985); United States v. Lopez (1995); Gonzales v. Raich (2005); National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012); Readings; Chapter 8: The Power to Tax and Spend; The Constitutional Power to Tax and Spend; Direct Taxes and the Power to Tax Income; Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. (1895); Intergovernmental Tax Immunity; Taxation as a Regulatory Power; Taxing and Spending for the General Welfare; South Dakota v. Dole (1987); National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012); Reading; PART IV: Economic Liberties; Economic Liberties and Individual Rights; Chapter 9: The Contract Clause; The Framers and the Contract Clause; John Marshall and the Contract Clause; The Decline of the Contract Clause; Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge (1837); Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934); Modern Applications of the Contract Clause; Readings; Chapter 10: Economic Substantive Due Process; The Development of Substantive Due Process; The Roller-Coaster Ride of Substantive Due Process: 1898-1923; Lochner v. New York (1905); The Heyday of Substantive Due Process: 1923-1936; Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923); The Depression, the New Deal, and the Decline of Substantive Due Process; West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937); Readings; Chapter 11: The Takings Clause; Protecting Private Property from Government Seizure; What Constitutes a Taking?; Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York (1978); Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992); Public Use Requirement; Kelo v. City of New London (2005); Readings; PART V: Civil Liberties; Approaching Civil Liberties; Chapter 12: Religion: Exercise and Establishment; Free Exercise of Religion; Sherbert v. Verner (1963); Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990); Religious Establishment; Everson v. Board of Education (1947); School District of Abington Township v. Schempp; Murray v. Curlett (1963); Lemon v. Kurtzman; Earley v. DiCenso (1971); Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002); Van Orden v. Perry (2005); Readings; Chapter 13: Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association; The Development of Legal Standards: The Emergence of Law in Times of Crisis; Schenck v. United States (1919); Contemporary Tests and Constitutional Guidelines; Content and Contexts; Texas v. Johnson (1989); Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942); Morse v. Frederick (2007); Snyder v. Phelps (2011); West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943); Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000); Readings; Chapter 14: Freedom of the Press; Prior Restraint; Near v. Minnesota (1931); The Media and Special Rights; Branzburg v. Hayes (1972); The Boundaries of Free Press: Libel, Obscenity, and Emerging Areas of Government Concern; New York Times v. Sullivan (1964); Miller v. California (1973); Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011); Regulating the Internet; Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997); Readings; Chapter 15: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms; Initial Interpretations; The Second Amendment Revisited; District of Columbia v. Heller (2008); Heller and the States; Readings; Chapter 16: The Right to Privacy; The Right to Privacy: Foundations; Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy; Roe v. Wade (1973); Private Activities and the Application of Griswold; Lawrence v. Texas (2003); Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990); Readings; PART VI: The Rights of the Criminally Accused; The Criminal Justice System and Constitutional Rights; Overview of the Criminal Justice System; Trends in Court Decision Making; Chapter 17: Investigations and Evidence; Searches and Seizures; United States v. Jones (2012); Mapp v. Ohio (1961); United States v. Leon (1984); The Fifth Amendment and Self-Incrimination; Miranda v. Arizona (1966); Readings; Chapter 18: Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments; The Right to Counsel; Gideon v. Wainwright (1963); Fair Trials; Sentencing and the Eighth Amendment; Gregg v. Georgia (1976); Atkins v. Virginia (2002); Posttrial Stages; Readings; PART VII: Civil Rights; Civil Rights and the Constitution; The Fourteenth Amendment; The Fifteenth Amendment; Chapter 19: Discrimination; Racial Discrimination; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954); Sex Discrimination; Reed v. Reed (1971); Craig v. Boren (1976); Economic Discrimination; San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973); Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation; Ro
• Edition: Sixth Edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 342.73; Constitutional law -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483323930; 1483323935
• Related ISBNs: 9781483307800
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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