American Constitutional Law: Constitutional Structures: Separated Powers and Federalism / Edition 12

by Louis Fisher, Katy Harriger

Overview

This book, in addition to analyzing and including excerpts of court decisions, highlights the efforts of legislatures, executives, the states, and the general public to participate in an ongoing political dialogue about the meaning of the Constitution. It therefore rejects the idea that elected leaders and the public must passively receive and obey a series of unilateral and final judicial commands. The book covers all new developments in case law, congressional statutes, presidential policies, and initiatives undertaken by states under their own constitutions. Included are readings not only from cases but congressional floor debates, committee reports, committee hearings, presidential vetoes and statements, opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, state activity, Federalist papers, and professional journals.

Professors may choose between the one-volume casebound book, American Constitutional Law, Twelfth Edition or two paperbacks: Volume 1 on "Constitutional Structures: Separated Powers and Federalism," and Volume 2 on "Constitutional Rights: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties."

This paperback Volume 1 (subtitled Constitutional Structures: Separated Powers and Federalism) includes Chapters 1 through 9 of American Constitutional Law, Twelfth Edition (hardback), plus the concluding chapter, "Efforts to Curb the Court."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531009526
Publisher:	Carolina Academic Press
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Edition description:	Twelfth Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louis Fisher is Scholar in Residence at the Constitution Project. Previously, he worked for four decades at the Library of Congress as Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers (Congressional Research Service, from 1970 to 1996) and Specialist in Constitutional Law (Law Library, from 2006 to 2010).

Katy Harriger is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University.

What People are Saying About This

Susan Burgess

I have used this book for two years now, in a two semester sequence, with great profit. I hope that in future editions Fisher will provide additional non-judicial materials to balance out the abundance of cases now included. Because students (not to mention scholars) are so wedded to judicial supremacy, they tend to be extremely skeptical about the importance and quality of congressional, executive, state, and public participation in constitutional debates.