The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986

by David P. Currie

• ISBN13: 9780226131122
• ISBN10: 0226131122
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2015-02-27
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Summary

The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Centurytraces the development of the Supreme Court from Chief Justice Fuller (1888-1910) to the retirement of Chief Justice Burger (1969-1986). Currie argues that the Court's work in its second century revolved around two issues: the constitutionality of the regulatory and spending programs adopted to ameliorate the hardships caused by the Industrial Revolution and the need to protect civil rights and liberties. Organizing the cases around the tenure of specific chief justices, Currie distinguishes among the different methods of constitutional exegesis, analyzes the various techniques of opinion writing, and evaluates the legal performance of different Courts. "Elegant and readable. Whether you are in favor of judicial restraint or judicial activism, whatever your feelings about the Warren Court, or the Renquist Court, this is a book that justifies serious study."--Robert Stevens, New York Times Book Review

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Part One: Chief Justice Fuller, 1888-1910
Introduction to Part One	3	(4)
The Protection of Economic Interests (I)	7	(24)
The Further Decline of the Contract Clause	7	(7)
Hans v. Louisiana	7	(3)
Illinois Central and Manigault	10	(4)
Federal Power to Protect Economic Interests	14	(8)
The Power to Exclude Aliens	14	(2)
Delegation of Legislative Power	16	(4)
The Common Law	20	(2)
Federal Power to Burden Economic Interests	22	(9)
United States v. E. C. Knight Co.	22	(2)
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.	24	(2)
Later Cases	26	(5)
The Protection of Economic Interests (II)	31	(24)
Obstructions to Interstate Commerce	31	(9)
Leisy v. Hardin	32	(2)
Rahrer and Plumley	34	(2)
Later Decisions	36	(4)
Due Process and Equal Protection	40	(15)
Rate Regulation	41	(4)
Allgeyer v. Louisiana	45	(2)
Lochner v. New York	47	(3)
Suing State Officers	50	(5)
Full Faith and the Bill of Rights	55	(34)
The Bill of Rights	55	(10)
Domestic Cases	55	(4)
The Insular Cases	59	(6)
Full Faith and Credit	65	(14)
Huntington v. Attrill	66	(2)
Fauntleroy v. Lum	68	(2)
Clarke v. Clarke	70	(3)
Atherton v. Atherton	73	(2)
Andrews v. Andrews	75	(1)
Haddock v. Haddock	76	(3)
Conclusion to Part One	79	(8)
Part Two: Chief Justice White, 1910-1921
Introduction to Part Two	87	(2)
From Muskrat to Abrams	89	(47)
Enumerated Powers	89	(13)
The Courts	89	(4)
Congress	93	(1)
The Shreveport Rate Case	93	(3)
Hammer v. Dagenhart	96	(2)
Doremus, Hamilton, and Holland	98	(4)
Constitutional Limitations	102	(24)
The Civil War Amendments	102	(1)
Economic due process	102	(3)
Civil rights	105	(5)
Admiralty and Commerce	110	(5)
Freedom of Expression	115	(1)
Schenck v. United States	115	(5)
Later cases	120	(6)
Conclusion to Part Two	126	(7)
Part Three: Chief Justice Taft, 1921-1930
Introduction to Part Three	133	(3)
Liberty, Property, and Equality	136	(34)
Constricting the Social State	136	(17)
Equal Protection	136	(3)
The Duty to Protect Property	139	(4)
Later Due Process Cases	143	(3)
Taking and Regulation	146	(7)
Civil Liberties	153	(17)
Meyer v. Nebraska	153	(1)
Freedom of Expression	154	(1)
Gitlow v. New York	154	(6)
Whitney and Fiske	160	(2)
Searches and Seizures	162	(1)
Open fields	163	(2)
Vehicles and houses	165	(2)
Searchlights and wiretaps	167	(3)
The Distribution of Authority	170	(38)
Federalism	170	(11)
Maritime Cases	170	(3)
Congressional Authority	173	(1)
The Child Labor Tax Case	173	(2)
The commerce clause	175	(1)
Prohibition	176	(5)
The Allocation of Federal Powers	181	(18)
The Courts	181	(1)
Parties	182	(4)
Finality and rulemaking	186	(2)
Declaratory judgments	188	(2)
Independence	190	(3)
The Executive and Congress	193	(1)
Myers v. United States	193	(2)
Other cases	195	(4)
Conclusion to Part Three	199	(6)
Part Four: Chief Justice Hughes, 1930-1941
Introduction to Part Four	205	(3)
The New Deal	208	(37)
By the Dawn's Early Light	208	(8)
Insurance and Chain Stores	208	(2)
Monopolies and Milk Prices	210	(1)
The Mortgage Moratorium	211	(3)
The Administrative State	214	(2)
Darkness at Noon	216	(19)
Delegation	216	(1)
Hot oil	216	(2)
Sick chickens	218	(1)
Coal miners	219	(1)
The Headless Fourth Branch	220	(2)
Commerce	222	(1)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States	222	(1)
Carter v. Carter Coal Co.	223	(2)
Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton R.R.	225	(1)
Taxing	226	(1)
Spending	227	(4)
Minimum Wages	231	(1)
Other Cases	232	(3)
The End of the Tunnel	235	(10)
The Passing of Federalism	236	(3)
Mopping Up	239	(6)
The New Agenda	245	(35)
Criminal Procedures	245	(4)
Powell v. Alabama	246	(1)
Sequels	247	(2)
Civil Rights	249	(2)
Juries, Grandfathers, and Schools	249	(1)
White Primaries	250	(1)
Civil Liberties	251	(20)
The First Amendment and the States	252	(1)
Political Dissent	253	(1)
Herndon v. Lowry	254	(1)
De Jonge v. Oregon	255	(1)
Stromberg v. California	255	(2)
Freedom of the Press	257	(1)
Near v. Minnesota	257	(3)
Grosjean v. American Press Co.	260	(1)
Jehovah's Witnesses	261	(1)
Permits	261	(2)
Public streets	263	(3)
Religious Freedom	266	(2)
Thornhill v. Alabama	268	(3)
Conclusion to Part Four	271	(6)
Part Five: Chief Justice Stone, 1941-1946
Introduction to Part Five	277	(3)
The Second World War	280	(28)
Military Trials	280	(5)
Ex parte Quirin	280	(2)
In re Yamashita	282	(1)
Duncan v. Kahanamoku	283	(2)
The Japanese-American Cases	285	(9)
Hirabayashi v. United States	285	(4)
Korematsu v. United States	289	(3)
Ex parte Endo	292	(2)
Treason	294	(5)
Price Control	299	(5)
Delegation	300	(1)
Judicial Review	301	(3)
Selective Service	304	(4)
The Preferred-Position Debate	308	(31)
The Opening of the Rift	309	(4)
Obstructing Justice	309	(2)
Picketing	311	(2)
Jehovah's Witnesses--Again	313	(7)
Fighting Words	314	(1)
License Taxes	315	(2)
Doorbells and Flags	317	(3)
Criminal Procedure	320	(2)
Insular Minorities and Political Processes	322	(11)
Blacks	322	(3)
Other Outsiders	325	(3)
Interstate Relations	328	(2)
Representation	330	(3)
Conclusion to Part Five	333	(4)
Part Six: Chief Justice Vinson, 1946-1953
Introduction to Part Six	337	(2)
From Everson to Youngstown	339	(38)
Religion	339	(4)
School Buses	339	(3)
Released Time	342	(1)
Speech	343	(15)
Peace and Quiet	343	(1)
State power	343	(2)
State duty	345	(3)
The Heckler's Veto	348	(2)
Group Libel	350	(3)
The Witch Hunt	353	(1)
Dennis v. United States	353	(2)
The privilege doctrine	355	(3)
Equality and Process	358	(7)
Race	358	(2)
Other Classifications	360	(2)
Procedure	362	(3)
The Steel Seizure Case	365	(5)
Conclusion to Part Six	370	(5)
Part Seven: Chief Justice Warren, 1953-1969
Introduction to Part Seven	375	(2)
The First Warren Court	377	(38)
Blacks	377	(8)
Segregation	377	(4)
Political Power	381	(4)
Reds	385	(11)
Skirmishing	385	(1)
Slochwer v. Board of Education	386	(2)
Watkins v. United States	388	(3)
Sweezy v. New Hampshire	391	(1)
Surrender	392	(1)
Public employment, bar admission, and investigation	392	(3)
Registration	395	(1)
Sinners	396	(14)
Smut	396	(1)
Criminal prosecution	396	(2)
Prior restraints	398	(1)
Crime	399	(1)
Courts-martial	400	(3)
Transcripts	403	(2)
Citizenship	405	(2)
Other cases	407	(3)
Saints	410	(2)
Passage	412	(3)
The Real Warren Court	415	(50)
Race	415	(14)
Government Abuse	416	(5)
Self-help	421	(4)
Government Support	425	(4)
The Greening of Equality	429	(5)
Free Speech	434	(8)
Curbing the Witch Hunters	434	(4)
Other Cases	438	(4)
Legislators, Judges, and Preachers	442	(4)
Fair Trial	446	(8)
The Bill of Rights	446	(5)
Prospective Overruling	451	(3)
Conclusion to Part Seven	454	(9)
Part Eight: Chief Justice Burger, 1969-1986
Introduction to Part Eight	463	(2)
Privacy and Equality	465	(40)
The New Morality	465	(12)
Abortion, Part I	465	(6)
Abortion, Part II	471	(4)
Homosexual Relations	475	(2)
The Wages of Slavery	477	(28)
Busing and Related Remedies	478	(4)
Affirmative Action	482	(6)
The ``De Facto'' Problem	488	(5)
Men, Women, and Children	493	(7)
Strangers and Brothers	500	(5)
Other Limitations	505	(55)
Speech	505	(22)
Political Spending	510	(3)
Commercial Speech	513	(5)
The Right Not to Speak	518	(5)
Access to Information	523	(4)
Religion	527	(11)
The Decline of Neutrality	527	(1)
Property taxes	527	(1)
Parochial schools	528	(2)
Compulsory education	530	(1)
A Partial Recovery	531	(1)
Easy cases	531	(3)
Mueller v. Allen	534	(1)
The Shadow of History	535	(3)
Administrative Procedure	538	(9)
Demise of the Privilege Doctrine	539	(1)
Later Property Cases	540	(2)
Liberty	542	(3)
That Process Which Is Due	545	(2)
Crime and Punishment	547	(13)
The Death Penalty	547	(3)
Criminal Procedure	550	(5)
Plea Bargaining	555	(5)
The Structure of Government	560	(42)
The Federal System	561	(24)
Enumerated Powers	561	(2)
Intergovernmental Immunity	563	(5)
Sovereign Immunity	568	(1)
Consent	569	(3)
Compulsion	572	(2)
Evasion	574	(3)
Expansion	577	(3)
Interstate Relations	580	(5)
The Distribution of Federal Powers	585	(12)
Presidential Immunities	585	(3)
The Executive and Congress	588	(5)
The Courts	593	(4)
Conclusion to Part Eight	597	(5)
Epilogue	602	(5)
Appendix A: Justices of the Supreme Court, 1888-1986	607	(3)
Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States	610	(17)
Table of Cases	627	(22)
Index	649