American constitutional law : essays, cases, and comparative notes /
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Author / Creator: | Kommers, Donald P. |
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Edition: | 2nd ed. |
Imprint: | Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004. |
Description: | xviii, 1095 p. ; 26 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5042758 |
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