American Constitutional Law : Introductory Essays and Selected Cases
ISBN: 9780136029915 | 0136029914
Edition: 15thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For one/two-semester, sophomore/graduate-level courses in American Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, American Constitutional History. This classic collection of carefully selected and edited Supreme Court case excerpts and comprehensive background essays explores constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, it endeavors to heighten students' understanding of and interest in these critical areas of our governmental system.
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| Preface | |
| introduction | |
| A Political Supreme Court | |
| Constitutional Interpretation and Political Choice | |
| A Changing Judiciary | |
| Appointment Politics, 1968 1984 | |
| Appointment Politics, 1984 1992 | |
| Appointment Politics, 1992-2006 | |
| Key Terms | |
| Queries | |
| Selected Readings on Federal Judicial Appo... MORE | |
| Selected Readings on the Supreme Court | |
| Selected Biographies | |
| Jurisdiction and Organization of the Federal Courts | |
| The Judicial Power | |
| Supreme Court Decision Making | |
| Source Materials | |
| Reading a Supreme Court Decision | |
| Key Terms | |
| Queries | |
| Selected Readings | |
| The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review | |
| Granting and Limiting Power | |
| The Doctrine of Judicial Review | |
| Influences on Judicial Decisionmaking | |
| Checks on Judicial Power | |
| Finality of Supreme Court Decisions | |
| Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation | |
| Judicial Review-A Distinctively American Contribution | |
| Key Terms | |
| Queries | |
| Selected Readings | |
| Establishing and Testing Judicial Review | |
| Unstaged Debate of 1788 | |
| (1803) | |
| (1825) | |
| (1857) | |
| External and Internal Checks on Judicial Power | |
| (1869) | |
| (1962) | |
| Finality of Supreme Court Decisions | |
| City of (1997) | |
| Unstaged Debate The Supreme Court | |
| Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation | |
| Unstaged Debate of 1986 Professor Tribe | |
| Congress and the President | |
| Separation of Powers | |
| Congress and Lawmaking | |
| The President and Executive Power | |
| Foreign Policy and National Security | |
| Key Terms | |
| Queries | |
| Selected Readings | |
| Delegation and Lawmaking | |
| United States (1989) | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983) | |
| Clinton v. City of New York (1998) | |
| Congressional Investigations | |
| Watkins v. United States (1957) | |
| Barenblatt v. United States (1959) | |
| Presidential Privilege and Immunity | |
| United States v. Nixon (1974) | |
| Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) | |
| Clinton v. (1997) | |
| Appointment and Removal | |
| Myers v. United States (1926) | |
| Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) | |
| Morrison v. (1988) | |
| Foreign Policy and National Security | |
| Ex parte Milligan (1866), 000 | |
| Missouri v. Holland (1920) | |
| United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) | |
| Korematsu v. United States (1944), 000 | |
| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) | |
| United States v. United States District Court (1972) | |
| War Powers Resolution (1973) | |
| Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) | |
| Federalism | |
| Sources of Contention | |
| Nature of National Authority | |
| Concepts of Federalism | |
| The Return of Dual Federalism | |
| Key Terms | |
| Queries | |
| Selected Readings | |
| Defining the Nature of the Union | |
| Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) | |
| Maryland (1819) | |
| Cohens v. Virginia (1821) | |
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