American Constitutional Law: Structure and Reconstruction : Cases, Notes, and Problems

by Shanor, Charles A.

• ISBN13: 9780314250360
• ISBN10: 0314250360
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: West Group

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Table of Cases	xvii
Introduction	1	(10)
Brief Outline of the Constitution's Text	1	(3)
A Brief History of the Constitution and Its Interpreation	4	(5)
Author's Overview	9	(2)
Judicial Power to Enforce the Constitution	11	(91)
Invalidation of Federal Laws	11	(15)
Invalidation of State Laws	26	(8)
Sources and Methods of Judicial Decisions	34	(17)
Introduction to Interpretive Issues	34	(14)
A Problem: Interpreting the Second Amendment	48	(3)
Limits on the Judicial Power	51	(51)
Congressional Limits	52	(13)
The ``Case or Controversy'' Limit	65	(24)
The Eleventh Amendment Limit	89	(13)
The Distribution of National Powers	102	(98)
The Framework	102	(18)
Executive Powers and Privileges	120	(39)
Executive Powers	120	(19)
Executive Privileges	139	(20)
Legislative Authority	159	(41)
Domestic Affairs	161	(33)
Foreign Affairs	194	(6)
Congress' Powers	200	(103)
The Basic Framework of Congress' Powers	200	(14)
The Necessary and Proper Clause	201	(13)
The Commerce Clause Power	214	(42)
The Classical View of the Commerce Power	215	(10)
The Commerce Clause During and After the New Deal	225	(11)
Modern Limits to the Commerce Clause Power	236	(20)
Other Article I Powers	256	(8)
Taxing and Spending Powers	256	(6)
The Treaty and War Powers	262	(2)
The Power to Enforce the Reconstruction Amendments	264	(39)
Federalism's Limits on Congress and the States	303	(99)
Limits on Congress	303	(67)
Substantive Regulation of the States	304	(11)
``Commandeering'' the States	315	(29)
State Sovereign Immunity	344	(26)
Limits on the States	370	(32)
The Framework	370	(17)
Preemption Under the Superemacy Clause	387	(15)
Judicial Protection of Interstate Commerce	402	(58)
Origins of the ``Dormant'' Commerce Clause	403	(2)
Protection Aganist Discrimination	405	(8)
Neutral Statutes With Effects on Interstate Commerce	413	(28)
The Market Participant Exception	441	(7)
State Privileges and Immunities	448	(12)
Citizenship, Privileges, and Immunities	460	(43)
Origins of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments	461	(18)
Federal Privileges or Immunities	479	(24)
Due Process, Procedural and Substantive	503	(140)
Procedural Due Process	503	(14)
Property and Liberty Deprivation	504	(4)
Process Due	508	(9)
Substantive Due Process	517	(126)
Economic Rights	517	(16)
Personal Rights	533	(110)
Equal Protection of the Laws	643	(156)
Introduction to the Equal Protection Clause	643	(1)
Race and the Equal Protection Clause	644	(84)
Separate and Unequal	645	(10)
Invidious Race Discrimination	655	(18)
Affirmative Action	673	(55)
Gender and the Equal Protection Clause	728	(24)
Fundamental Interests and the Equal Protection Clause	752	(22)
Rational Basis and Hybrid Review	774	(25)
State Action	799	(40)
Minimum Amount of State Action	799	(19)
State Inaction	818	(7)
Apps.
A. The Articles of Confederation	825	(7)
B. James Madison's Bill of Rights Speech	832	(7)
Index	839