American constitutional law : essays, cases, and comparative notes /

American constitutional law : essays, cases, and comparative notes /

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Author / Creator:Kommers, Donald P.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.
Description:xviii, 1095 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Constitutional law -- United States.
Constitutional law.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5042758
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Other authors / contributors:Finn, John E.
Jacobsohn, Gary J., 1946-
ISBN:0742526879 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742526887 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742526933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 1067-1068) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Interpretive Perspective
  • The Normative Perspective
  • The Comparative Perspective
  • Part I. Institutional and Interpretive Foundations
  • Chapter 1. The Supreme Court
  • The Justices: Politics of Appointment
  • The Federal Court System
  • Jurisdiction: The Power to Hear Cases and Controversies
  • Congressional Control Over Appellate Jurisdiction
  • Deciding to Decide: Decision-Making Procedures
  • Coming to Decision: Voting on Cases and Writing Opinions
  • The Impact of Decisions
  • Understanding Judicial Opinions
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Generalized or Specialized Jurisdiction
  • Centralized and Decentralized Systems of Constitutional Review
  • The Effects of Judicial Review
  • Differences in Judicial Opinions
  • Methods of Judicial Appointment and Terms of Office
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Chapter 2. The Constitution and Its Interpretation
  • The Constitution
  • The Why and What of Constitutional Interpretation
  • Sources and Methods of Interpretation
  • Textualism
  • Original History
  • Doctrinalism
  • Precedent
  • Prudentialism
  • Structuralism
  • Philosophical and Aspirational Argument
  • Limits to Interpretation: An Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment?
  • Griswold v. Connecticut: A Case Study in Interpretation
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Part II. Intergovernmental Powers and Relationships
  • Chapter 3. Judicial Power
  • The Constitution and Judicial Review
  • The Early Struggle for Judicial Supremacy
  • Expansion of Judicial Power
  • Self-Imposed Limits on Judicial Power
  • Rules of Access
  • Political Questions
  • Judicial Review and Constitutional Amendments
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)
  • Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)
  • Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
  • Ex Parte McCardle (1868)
  • Luther v. Borden (1849)
  • Baker v. Carr (1962)
  • Goldwater v. Carter (1979)
  • Nixon v. United States (1993)
  • Chapter 4. Separation of Powers
  • The View of the Framers
  • Separation of Powers Today
  • Congressional Powers and Their Limits
  • Congressional Investigations
  • Executive-Legislative Relations
  • The Principle of Nondelegation
  • The Steel Seizure Case
  • Separation of Powers Reasserted
  • Appointment and Removal Power
  • Executive-Judicial Relations
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
  • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
  • Powell v. McCormack (1969)
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
  • Morrison v. Olson (1988)
  • United States v. Nixon (1974)
  • Clinton v. Jones (1997)
  • Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
  • Chapter 5. Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Crises
  • The Constitutional Basis and Structure of Foreign Affairs Powers
  • Separated and Shared Powers
  • An Invitation to Struggle: Contests for Power Between Congress and the President
  • The Growth of the Imperial Presidency in Foreign Affairs
  • The War Powers Resolution
  • The Constitution in Crisis
  • Crises and the Constitution
  • How Do Governments Respond to Crises?
  • Inherent Powers and the Theory of Prerogative
  • The Constitutional Limitations Theory
  • Judicial Review and Foreign Affairs
  • Extraconstitutional Sources of Power
  • Justiciability and the Political Questions Doctrine
  • War and Civil Liberties
  • The Constitution and the War on Terrorism
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Foreign Affairs and the German Basic Law
  • Accountability and the Political Questions Doctrine in Canada
  • Judicial Review and the Political Questions Doctrine in Canada
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • State of Missouri v. Holland (1920)
  • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
  • The Prize Cases (1862)
  • War Powers Resolution (1973)
  • Iraq Resolution (2002)
  • United States. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)
  • Korematsu v. United States (1944)
  • Zadvydas v. Davis (2001)
  • Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
  • Ex Parte Quirin (1942)
  • Chapter 6. Federalism and State Regulation
  • Enumerated, Implied, and Reserved Powers
  • Marshall's Nationalism
  • Dual Federalism and Judicial Dualism
  • The Revival of Implied Limits on Federal Power
  • State Sovereignty and the Eleventh Amendment
  • Local Power over Commerce
  • Preemption
  • Federal-State Comity
  • Interstate Comity
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • McCulloch v. State of Maryland (1819)
  • New York v. United States (1992)
  • Printz v. United States (1997)
  • U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
  • Alden v. Maine (1999)
  • Federal Maritime Commission v. South Carolina State Ports Authority (2002)
  • Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1851)
  • Southern Pacific Company v. State of Arizona (1945)
  • City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey (1978)
  • Baldwin v. Fish and Game Commission of Montana (1978)
  • Chapter 7. Congressional Powers
  • Regulating Interstate Commerce
  • Marshall's Textualism
  • Post-Gibbons Checks on National Power
  • Modern Commerce Clause Jurisprudence
  • New-Found Limits on Congressional Power
  • The Rise and Fall of a Constitutional Doctrine
  • A Return to State Autonomy
  • Taxing and Spending Power
  • Additional Congressional Powers
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
  • United States v. E.C. Knight Co. et al. (1895)
  • Champion v. Ames (1903)
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
  • National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
  • Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
  • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
  • National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
  • Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
  • United States v. Lopez (1995)
  • United States v. Morrison (2000)
  • United States v. Butler (1936)
  • South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
  • Chapter 8. Voting and Political Representation
  • The Constitutional Framework and Political Participation
  • The Apportionment Revolution
  • Political Parties and Elections
  • Money and Politics
  • Bush v. Gore
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
  • Davis v. Bandemer (1986)
  • Shaw v. Reno (1993)
  • Hunt v. Cromartie (1999)
  • Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin (1981)
  • Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
  • Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee (2001)
  • Bush v. Gore (2000)
  • Part III. Liberty, Community, and Constitutional Interpretation under the Bill of Rights
  • Bills of Rights in Other Constitutions
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. The Bill of Rights, Incorporation, and Capital Punishment
  • Constitutional Theory and the Need for a Bill of Rights
  • The Reconstruction Amendments and the Bill of Rights
  • The Fourteenth Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine
  • The Fundamental Fairness Doctrine
  • Total Incorporation
  • Total Incorporation "Plus"
  • Selective Incorporation
  • Continuing Incorporation Problems
  • The Bill of Rights and Capital Punishment
  • Who Gets the Death Penalty?
  • Continuing Death Penalty Issues: Does Innocence Matter?
  • Summary
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • The Death Penalty and Judicial Power
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
  • The Slaughter-House Cases (1873)
  • Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
  • Adamson v. California (1947)
  • Rochin v. California (1952)
  • Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
  • Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
  • McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
  • Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
  • Chapter 10. Liberty and Property
  • The Contracts Clause and the Vested Rights Doctrine
  • The Rise and Fall of Economic Due Process
  • The Decline of Economic Due Process
  • The Takings Clause and Due Process
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Rights to Property and Occupational Liberty
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Calder v. Bull (1798)
  • Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
  • Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge (1837)
  • Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934)
  • Munn v. Illinois (1876)
  • Lochner v. New York (1905)
  • West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
  • Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002)
  • Chapter 11. Fundamental Rights: Privacy and Personhood
  • The Early Development of Noneconomic Substantive Due Process
  • Carolene Products: Justifying Judicial Protection of Noneconomic Due Process
  • Early Applications of Carolene Products: Buck, Skinner, and Rights to Procreation
  • Substantive Due Process: The Development of a Constitutional Right to Privacy
  • Early Efforts to Construct a Constitutional Right to Privacy
  • Roe v. Wade: Privacy and Abortion
  • Abortion Litigation After Roe
  • Substantive Due Process and Other Liberty Interests
  • What Is Liberty?
  • Liberty and "Unconventional" Sexual Practices
  • Substantive Due Process and the Family
  • Substantive Due Process and Rights Concerning the Quality of Life
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Privacy and Abortion in Other Constitutional Democracies
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • United States v. Carolene Products (1938)
  • Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
  • Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
  • Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
  • Roe v. Wade (1973)
  • Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
  • Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
  • DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989)
  • Moore v. East Cleveland (1977)
  • Troxel v. Granville (2000)
  • Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
  • Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
  • Michael H. v. Gerald D. (1989)
  • Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
  • Chapter 12. Freedom of Speech
  • The First Amendment: An Interpretive Problem
  • Original Intent
  • Text, Theory, and Purpose
  • Balancing versus Absolutism
  • Definitional Balancing
  • Speech, Conduct, and Time-Place-Manner (TPM) Restrictions
  • Symbolic Speech and Expressive Conduct
  • Speech and the Polity: Normative Issues
  • Internal Security and Advocacy of Unlawful Conduct
  • Defamation and Privacy
  • Offensive Talk, Fighting Words, and Hate Speech
  • Indecency and Obscenity
  • New Frontiers of Speech
  • The Freedom of Association
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Schenck v. United States (1919)
  • Dennis v. United States (1951)
  • Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
  • New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
  • Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
  • United States v. O'Brien (1968)
  • Cohen v. California (1971)
  • New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
  • The Sedition Act of 1798
  • Texas v. Johnson (1989)
  • R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
  • Hill v. Colorado (2000)
  • Miller v. California (1973)
  • City of Erie v. Pap's A. M. (2000)
  • Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
  • Chapter 13. Freedom of Religion in Public and Private Life
  • Constitutional Interpretation and the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment
  • The Problem of Definition: What Is Religion?
  • The Establishment Clause: Strict Separation or Accommodation?
  • Religious Education and Observances in Public Schools
  • Prayer in the Schools
  • The School Curriculum
  • Public Aid for Private Religious Schools
  • Other Establishment Clause Issues
  • The Free Exercise Clause
  • Free Exercise and the Public Schools
  • Free Exercise and the Military
  • Reconciling the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Establishment in Comparative Perspective
  • Free Exercise in Comparative Perspective
  • Defining Religion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
  • Engel v. Vitale (1962)
  • Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
  • Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
  • Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
  • Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
  • Lee v. Weisman (1992)
  • Good News Club et al. v. Milford Central School (2001)
  • Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
  • Davis v. Beason (1890)
  • West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)
  • Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
  • Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
  • Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah (1993)
  • Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
  • Boerne v. Flores (1997)
  • Chapter 14. The Equal Protection Clause and Racial Discrimination
  • Interpreting Equality
  • Racial Discrimination and the Supreme Court
  • Slavery and the Constitution
  • Civil War Amendments, Jim Crow, and Separate but Equal
  • Brown and the Evolution of Equal Protection
  • Affirmative Action and Equality
  • Private Discrimination and the State Action Doctrine
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)
  • Strauder v. West Virginia (1880)
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
  • Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado (1973)
  • Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
  • The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
  • Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
  • Palmore v. Sidoti (1984)
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
  • Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena (1995)
  • Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
  • Chapter 15. Gender Discrimination and Other Claims to Equality
  • Legislative Differentiation and the Meaning of Equality
  • Equal Protection and the Supreme Court: 1938-1960
  • The 1960s and Beyond
  • Fundamental Interests and Equality
  • Gender Discrimination
  • Other Claims to Equality and the Quest for Standards
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Selected Comparative Bibliography
  • Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
  • San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
  • Plyler v. Doe (1982)
  • Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
  • Craig v. Boren (1976)
  • United States v. Virginia (1996)
  • Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001)
  • Foley v. Connelie (1978)
  • Trimble v. Gordon (1977)
  • Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia (1976)
  • Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)
  • Romer v. Evans (1996)
  • Appendix A. Declaration of Independence
  • Appendix B. The United States Constitution
  • Appendix C. First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln
  • Appendix D. The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
  • Appendix E. Understanding Supreme Court Opinions
  • Appendix F. Glossary of Terms
  • Appendix G. Chronological Chart of the Justices
  • Appendix H. Legal Research on the World Wide Web
  • Appendix I. The Federalist No. 78
  • Table of Cases
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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