Preface
introduction
A Political Supreme Court
Constitutional Interpretation and Political Choice
A Changing Judiciary
Appointment Politics, 1968—1984
Appointment Politics, 1984—1992
Appointment Politics, 1992-2006
Key Terms
Queries
Selected Readings on Federal Judicial Appointments
Selected Readings on the Supreme Court
Selected Biographies
chapter one
Jurisdiction and Organization of the Federal Courts
The Judicial Power
Supreme Court Decision Making
Source Materials
Reading a Supreme Court Decision
Key Terms
Queries
Selected Readings
chapter two
The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review
Granting and Limiting Power
The Doctrine of Judicial Review
Influences on Judicial Decisionmaking
Checks on Judicial Power
Finality of Supreme Court Decisions
Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation
Judicial Review–A Distinctively American Contribution
Key Terms
Queries
Selected Readings
I. Establishing and Testing Judicial Review
Unstaged Debate of 1788: Robert Yates v. Alexander Hamilton
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Eakin v. Raub (1825)
Scott v. Sandford (1857)
II. External and Internal Checks on Judicial Power
Ex parte McCardle (1869)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
III. Finality of Supreme Court Decisions
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Unstaged Debate: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Arkansas v. The Supreme Court
IV. Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation
Unstaged Debate of 1986: Judge Bork v. Professor Tribe
chapter three
Congress and the President
Separation of Powers
Congress and Lawmaking
The President and Executive Power
Foreign Policy and National Security
Key Terms
Queries
Selected Readings 000
I. Delegation and Lawmaking 000
Mistretta v. United States (1989) 000
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983) 000
Clinton v. City of New York (1998) 000
II. Congressional Investigations 000
Watkins v. United States (1957) 000
Barenblatt v. United States (1959) 000
III. Presidential Privilege and Immunity 000
United States v. Nixon (1974) 000
Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) 000
Clinton v. Jones (1997) 000
IV. Appointment and Removal 000
Myers v. United States (1926) 000
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) 000
Morrison v. Olson (1988) 000
V. Foreign Policy and National Security 000
Ex parte Milligan (1866) 000, 000
Missouri v. Holland (1920) 000
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) 000
Korematsu v. United States (1944) 000, 000
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) 000
United States v. United States District Court (1972) 000, 000
War Powers Resolution (1973) 000
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) 000,000
Chapter four
Federalism 000
Sources of Contention 000
Nature of National Authority 000
Concepts of Federalism 000
The Return of Dual Federalism 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Defining the Nature of the Union 000
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) 000
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 000
Cohens v. Virginia (1821) 000
Collector v. Day (1871) 000
II. National Supremacy v. Dual Federalism in the Modern Era 000
U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
United States v. Morrison (2000) 000
Tennessee v. Lane (2004) 000
Gonzales v. Raich (2005) 000, 000
Chapter five
The Electoral Process 000
Voting 000
Representation 000
Party Politics and Campaigns 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Voting 000
Bush v. Gore (2000) 000
II. Representation 000
Baker v. Carr (1962) 000
Reynolds v. Sims (1964) 000
Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004) 000
Miller v. Johnson (1995) 000
Hunt [Easley] v. Cromartie (2001) 000
III. Party Politics and Campaigns 000
California Democratic Primary v. Jones (2000) 000
Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002) 000
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003)
chapter six
The Commerce Clause 000
Views of the Framers 000
The Marshall Doctrine 000
The Doctrine of the Taney Court 000
States and the Commerce Clause Today 000
The National Commerce Power: Competing Visions 000
Constitutional Crisis 000
The Commerce Power Reborn 000
A Return to Limitations 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Defining the Commerce Power 000
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) 000
Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1851) 000
II. States and the Commerce Power 000
Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona (1945)
Philadelphia v. New Jersey (1978) 000
Granholm v. Heald (2005) 000
III. Competing Visions of Congress’s Commerce Power 000
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895) 000
Champion v. Ames (1903) 000
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) 000
Stafford v. Wallace (1922) 000
IV. The New Deal in Court 000
Carter v. Carter Coal Co. (1936) 000
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937) 000
V. Contemporary Views of the Commerce Power 000
Wickard v. Filburn (1942) 000
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States; Katzenbach v. McClung (1964) 000
United States v. Lopez (1995) 000
United States v. Morrison (2000) 000, 000
Gonzales v. Raich (2005) 000, 000
Chapter seven
National Taxing and Spending Power 000
Direct and Indirect Taxes 000
Regulation Through Taxation 000
Regulation Through Spending 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Direct and Indirect Taxes 000
Hylton v. United States (1796) 000
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company (1895) 000
II. Regulation Through Taxation 000
McCray v. United States (1904) 000
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922) 000
III. Regulation Through Spending 000
United States v. Butler (1936) 000
South Dakota v. Dole (1987) 000
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (2006) 000
Chapter eight
Property Rights and the Development of Due Process 000
The Doctrine of Vested Rights 000
Expansion of the Contract Clause 000
Twilight of the Contract Clause 000
Origins of Due Process 000
Judicial Restraint and the Fourteenth Amendment 000
Judicial Activism and the Fourteenth Amendment 000
Search for a Role: Footnote Four 000
Takings, Land Use, and the Fifth Amendment 000
“New Property” and Due Process of Law 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Vested Rights and the Ex Post Facto Clause 000
Calder v. Bull (1798) 000
II. The Contract Clause
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) 000
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) 000
Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934) 000
III. Property Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment 000
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) 000
Munn v. Illinois (1877) 000
Unstaged Debate of 1893: Justice Brewer v. Professor Thayer 000
Lochner v. New York (1905) 000
Nebbia v. New York (1934) 000
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) 000
Ferguson v. Skrupa (1963) 000
IV. Fifth Amendment Takings and Land Use 000
Kelo v. City of New London (2005) 000
V. “New Property” 000
Saenz v. Roe (1999) 000
Chapter nine
Nationalization of the Bill of Rights 000
Paths of Due Process of Law 000
The Bill of Rights 000
Incorporation: Applying the Bill of Rights to the States 000
The New Judicial Federalism: A New Double Standard 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Drive for a Bill of Rights 000
Jefferson—Madison Correspondence, 1787—1789 000
II. The Bill of Rights and the States 000
Palko v. Connecticut (1937) 000
Adamson v. California (1947) 000
Duncan v. Louisiana (1968) 000
Chapter ten
Criminal Justice 000
Searches and Seizures 000
Right to Counsel 000
Self-Incrimination 000
Punishment 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Searches and Seizures 000
A. Whose Rights? 000
Minnesota v. Carter (1998) 000
B. The Exclusionary Rule 000
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) 000
United States v. Leon (1984) 000
C. Search Incident to Arrest 000
Chimel v. California (1969) 000
D. Automobile Searches 000
California v. Acevedo (1991) 000
E. Electronic Surveillance 000
Olmstead v. United States (1928) 000
Katz v. United States (1967) 000
United States v. United States District Court (1972) 000, 000
Kyllo v. United States (2001) 000
F. Arrests, Detentions, and Frisks 000
Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (2001) 000
Terry v. Ohio (1968) 000
G. Administrative Searches 000
Board of Education of Pottawatomie County v. Earls (2002) 000
II. Right to Counsel 000
Powell v. Alabama (1932) 000
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) 000
III. Self-Incrimination 000
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 000
Dickerson v. United States (2000) 000
IV. Capital Punishment 000
Gregg v. Georgia (1976) 000
Roper v. Simmons (2005) 000
Chapter eleven
Freedom of Expression 000
Tests of Freedom 000
Internal Security 000
Public Forum 000
Protest and Symbolic Speech 000
Freedom of Association 000
Print and Electronic Media 000
Postscript 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Internal Security 000
Schenck v. United States (1919) 000
Gitlow v. New York (1925) 000
Whitney v. California (1927) 000
Dennis v. United States (1951) 000
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) 000
II. Public Forum 000
Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence (1984) 000
Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) 000
III. Protest and Symbolic Speech 000
United States v. O’Brien (1968) 000
Texas v. Johnson (1989) 000
Virginia v. Black (2003) 000
IV. Freedom of Association 000
Boy Scouts of America and Monmouth Council v. Dale (2000) 000
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (2006) 000
V. Print and Electronic Media 000
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) 000
New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) 000
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) 000
Chapter twelve
Religious Liberty 000
Competing Visions 000
The Establishment Clause 000
The Free Exercise Clause 000
Values in Tension 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Religion in Public Schools and Other Official Settings 000
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000) 000
McCreary County v. A.C.L.U. of Kentucky (2005) 000
II. State Aid to Religious Schools 000
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) 000
Agostini v. Felton (1997) 000
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) 000
III. Free Exercise of Religion 000
The Flag-Salute Cases 000
Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) 000
Justice Frankfurter to Justice Stone, May 27, 1940: A Qualified Plea for Judicial Self-Restraint 000
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) 000
Sherbert v. Verner (1963) 000
Employment Division v. Smith (1990) 000
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) , 000
Chapter thirteen
Privacy 000
Dimensions of Privacy 000
Private Law and Public Law Beginnings 000
Invigorating a Right of Privacy 000
Abortion 000
A Developing Concept 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Invigorating a Right of Privacy 000
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 000
II. Abortion 000
Roe v. Wade (1973) 000
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) 000
Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) 000
III. The Right to Die 000
Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) 000
IV. Sexual Orientation 000
Lawrence v. Texas (2003) 000
Chapter fourteen
Equal Protection of the Laws 000
Identifying Forbidden Discrimination 000
Racial Discrimination 000
State Action 000
Gender Discrimination 000
Fundamental Rights Analysis 000
Congressional Protection of Civil Rights 000
Affirmative Action 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
I. Identifying Forbidden Discrimination 000
Korematsu v. United States (1944) 000, 000
Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (1985) 000
Romer v. Evans (1996) 000
II. Racial Discrimination 000
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 000
Brown v. Board of Education (First Case) (1954) 000
Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) 000
Brown v. Board of Education (Second Case) (1955) 000
Milliken v. Bradley (1974) 000
III. State Action 000
Civil Rights Cases (United States v. Stanley, 1883) 000
Moose Lodge v. Irvis (1972) 000
IV. Gender Discrimination 000
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973) 000
Craig v. Boren (1976) 000
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982) 000
V. Fundamental Rights Analysis 000
Shapiro v. Thompson (1969) 000
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) 000
VI. Affirmative Action 000
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) 000
Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) 000
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007) 000
Chapter fifteen
Security and Freedom in Wartime 000
The Fragility of Civil Liberties 000
The USA Patriot Act 000
Anti-Terrorist Policies in Court 000
“Inter Arma Silent Leges” 000
Key Terms 000
Queries 000
Selected Readings 000
Ex parte Milligan (1866) 000
Ex parte Quirin (1942) 000
Korematsu v. United States (1944) 000
New York Times Company v. United States (1971) 000, 000
United States v. United States District Court (1972) 000
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) 000