Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice / Edition 10 available in Paperback
Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice / Edition 10
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- 1506380301
- ISBN-13:
- 2901506380307
- Pub. Date:
- 08/31/2018
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice / Edition 10
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Overview
Covers various Americans' right to the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, discrimination and defendant's rights.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 2901506380307 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 08/31/2018 |
Series: | Constitutional Law for a Changing America |
Edition description: | Tenth Edition |
Pages: | 792 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |
About the Author
Kevin T. Mc Guire (Ph D, The Ohio State University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin, he is the author of Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court: Cases and Controversies and The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community. He is the editor of New Directions in Judicial Politics, and coeditor, with Kermit L. Hall, of Institutions of American Democracy: The Judiciary.
Thomas G. Walker (Ph D, University of Kentucky) is the Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus at Emory University, where he won several teaching awards for his courses on constitutional law and the judicial process. His book A Court Divided, written with Deborah J. Barrow, won the prestigious V. O. Key Award for the best book on Southern politics. He is the author of Eligible for Execution and coauthor of The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments, 7th Edition, with Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth.
Table of Contents
Preface | xvii | |
I | The U.S. Constitution | |
An Introduction to the U.S. Constitution | 3 | |
The Road to the U.S. Constitution | 3 | |
Underlying Principles of the Constitution | 7 | |
Readings | 11 | |
1. | Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court | 13 |
Processing Supreme Court Cases | 13 | |
Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Legally Relevant Approaches | 24 | |
Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Extralegal Approaches | 35 | |
Conducting Research on the Supreme Court | 47 | |
Readings | 49 | |
II | Institutional Authority | |
Structuring the Federal System | 55 | |
Origins of the Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances System | 55 | |
Separation of Powers and the Constitution | 57 | |
Contemporary Thinking on the Constitutional Scheme: Separation of Powers Games | 58 | |
Readings | 60 | |
2. | The Judiciary | 61 |
Establishment of the Federal Judiciary | 62 | |
Judicial Review | 66 | |
Marbury v. Madison (1803) | 66 | |
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816) | 78 | |
Eakin v. Raub (1825) | 87 | |
Constraints on Judicial Power: Article III | 91 | |
Ex parte McCardle (1869) | 92 | |
Baker v. Carr (1962) | 99 | |
Nixon v. United States (1993) | 105 | |
Flast v. Cohen (1968) | 110 | |
Constraints on Judicial Power: The Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances System | 117 | |
Readings | 119 | |
3. | The Legislature | 121 |
Article I: Historical Overview | 121 | |
Congressional Authority over Internal Affairs: Institutional Independence and Integrity | 125 | |
Powell v. McCormack (1969) | 128 | |
U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (1995) | 134 | |
Gravel v. United States (1972) | 142 | |
Sources and Scope of Legislative Powers | 147 | |
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | 149 | |
McGrain v. Daugherty (1927) | 157 | |
Watkins v. United States (1957) | 161 | |
Barenblatt v. United States (1959) | 166 | |
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) | 174 | |
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966) | 179 | |
Readings | 183 | |
4. | The Executive | 185 |
Article II: Basic Considerations | 185 | |
The Faithful Execution of the Laws: Defining the Contours of Presidential Power | 194 | |
In re Neagle (1890) | 194 | |
Domestic Powers of the President | 200 | |
Clinton v. City of New York (1998) | 201 | |
Morrison v. Olson (1988) | 206 | |
Myers v. United States (1926) | 216 | |
Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) | 220 | |
United States v. Nixon (1974) | 224 | |
Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) | 229 | |
Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) | 232 | |
Clinton v. Jones (1997) | 237 | |
Ex parte Grossman (1925) | 243 | |
Murphy v. Ford (1975) | 246 | |
The President and Foreign Policy | 248 | |
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) | 248 | |
Readings | 251 | |
5. | The Separation of Powers System in Action | 252 |
Domestic Powers | 252 | |
Mistretta v. United States (1989) | 257 | |
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983) | 262 | |
Bowsher v. Synar (1986) | 266 | |
Presidential Power During War and National Emergencies | 271 | |
The Prize Cases (1863) | 272 | |
Ex parte Milligan (1866) | 275 | |
Korematsu v. United States (1944) | 283 | |
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer (1952) | 288 | |
Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981) | 293 | |
Readings | 296 | |
III | Nation-State Relations | |
Allocating Government Power | 299 | |
The Framers and Federalism | 300 | |
The Tenth and Eleventh Amendments | 301 | |
Readings | 303 | |
6. | Federalism | 305 |
Nation-State Relations: The Doctrinal Cycle | 305 | |
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | 307 | |
Scott v. Sandford (1857) | 313 | |
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) | 321 | |
United States v. Darby Lumber (1941) | 325 | |
National League of Cities v. Usery (1976) | 327 | |
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985) | 333 | |
New York v. United States (1992) | 339 | |
Printz v. United States (1997) | 344 | |
The Eleventh Amendment | 350 | |
Alden v. Maine (1999) | 352 | |
New Judicial Federalism | 359 | |
Michigan v. Long (1983) | 361 | |
National Preemption of State Laws | 369 | |
State of Missouri v. Holland (1920) | 369 | |
Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000) | 371 | |
Pennsylvania v. Nelson (1956) | 376 | |
Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (1983) | 379 | |
Readings | 383 | |
7. | The Commerce Power | 385 |
Constitutional Foundations of the Commerce Power | 385 | |
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | 387 | |
Defining Interstate Commerce | 391 | |
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895) | 393 | |
Stafford v. Wallace (1922) | 397 | |
The Supreme Court and the New Deal | 399 | |
A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) | 402 | |
Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936) | 408 | |
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937) | 416 | |
Wickard v. Filburn (1942) | 423 | |
Modern Limitations on the Commerce Power | 425 | |
United States v. Lopez (1995) | 426 | |
United States v. Morrison (2000) | 431 | |
Regulating Commerce as a Federal Police Power | 436 | |
Champion v. Ames (1903) | 438 | |
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) | 442 | |
The Commerce Power of the States | 444 | |
Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852) | 446 | |
Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona (1945) | 450 | |
Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977) | 454 | |
Maine v. Taylor (1986) | 457 | |
Readings | 460 | |
8. | The Power to Tax and Spend | 462 |
The Constitutional Power to Tax and Spend | 462 | |
Direct Taxes and the Power to Tax Income | 463 | |
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895) | 466 | |
Taxation of Exports | 472 | |
United States v. United States Shoe Corporation (1998) | 472 | |
Intergovernmental Tax Immunity | 474 | |
South Carolina v. Baker (1988) | 476 | |
Davis v. Michigan Department of Treasury (1989) | 478 | |
Taxation as a Regulatory Power | 481 | |
McCray v. United States (1904) | 482 | |
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922) | 485 | |
Taxing and Spending for the General Welfare | 488 | |
United States v. Butler (1936) | 489 | |
Steward Machine Co. v. Davis (1937) | 494 | |
South Dakota v. Dole (1987) | 498 | |
Restrictions on the Revenue Powers of the States | 501 | |
Michelin Tire Corp. v. Wages (1976) | 502 | |
Complete Auto Transit v. Brady (1977) | 505 | |
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (1992) | 507 | |
Oregon Waste Systems v. Department of Environmental Quality of the State of Oregon (1994) | 511 | |
Readings | 514 | |
IV | Economic Liberties | |
Economic Liberties and Individual Rights | 517 | |
Readings | 519 | |
9. | The Contract Clause | 521 |
The Framers and the Contract Clause | 521 | |
John Marshall and the Contract Clause | 523 | |
Fletcher v. Peck (1810) | 523 | |
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) | 528 | |
Decline of the Contract Clause: From the Taney Court to the New Deal | 533 | |
Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge (1837) | 534 | |
Stone v. Mississippi (1880) | 539 | |
Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934) | 542 | |
Revitalization of the Contract Clause | 546 | |
United States Trust Co. v. New Jersey (1977) | 546 | |
Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus (1978) | 550 | |
Readings | 553 | |
10. | Economic Substantive Due Process | 554 |
The Development of Substantive Due Process | 557 | |
The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) | 557 | |
Munn v. Illinois (1877) | 564 | |
Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897) | 570 | |
The Roller Coaster Ride of Substantive Due Process: 1898-1923 | 572 | |
Lochner v. New York (1905) | 573 | |
Muller v. Oregon (1908) | 579 | |
The Heyday of Substantive Due Process: 1923-1936 | 585 | |
Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) | 585 | |
The Depression, the New Deal, and the Decline of Substantive Due Process | 588 | |
Nebbia v. New York (1934) | 588 | |
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) | 593 | |
Williamson v. Lee Optical Company (1955) | 597 | |
Readings | 599 | |
11. | The Takings Clause | 600 |
Protecting Private Property from Government Seizure | 600 | |
What Constitutes a Taking? | 603 | |
United States v. Causby (1946) | 603 | |
Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York (1978) | 606 | |
Public Use Requirement | 610 | |
Berman v. Parker (1954) | 611 | |
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff (1984) | 613 | |
Resurrecting the Takings Clause | 616 | |
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987) | 618 | |
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992) | 621 | |
Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994) | 625 | |
Readings | 630 | |
Reference Material | ||
Constitution of the United States | 633 | |
Federalist Paper, No. 78 | 643 | |
Bush v. Gore (2000) | 647 | |
U.S. Presidents | 655 | |
Thumbnail Sketch of the Supreme Court's History | 657 | |
The Justices | 659 | |
Natural Courts | 665 | |
Supreme Court Calendar | 671 | |
Briefing Supreme Court Cases | 672 | |
Glossary | 674 | |
Subject Index | 679 | |
Case Index | 693 | |
Illustration Credits | 699 |