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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 |
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