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Interpreting American Constitutional History | |
Essays: Jennifer Nedelsky | |
The Constitution and the Protection of Private Property | |
The Supreme Court as a Unifying | |
Force in American Culture | |
Popular Constitutionalism | |
Gender and American Citizenship | |
Creating The American Republic | |
Documents: Political Theorist | |
Describes the Ends of Political | |
Society and Government, 1690 | |
American Colonists Declare | |
Their Independence, 1776 | |
The American Colonies Form a Confederation, 1777 | |
Convention Delegate | |
Proposes the Virginia Plan, May 29, 1787 | |
Proposes the New Jersey Plan, June 15, 1787 | |
Delegates Debate the Creation of a National Legislature, May-June, 1787 | |
Delegates Debate Slavery and Representation, June-July, 1787 | |
Delegate | |
Advocates an Extended Republic, 1788 | |
Essays: Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Debate over Representation | |
The Power of Ideas in the Convention | |
Representation of Women in the Constitution | |
Documents: Virginian | |
Champions Religious Liberty, 1785 | |
Anti-Federalist | |
Outlines his Objections to the Proposed Constitution, 1787 | |
Madison Advocates a Bill of Rights, 1789 | |
The Sedition Act Limits | |
Criticism of the National Government, 1798 | |
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | |
Decry the Abuse of National Power, 1798-1799 | |
Lyon's Case, 1798 | |
Essays: Saul Cornell, The Anti-Federalists and American Liberty | |
The Republicans and the Transformation of Libertarian Thought | |
The Departmental Theory And The Establishment Of Judicial Review | |
Documents: Federalist | |
Defends Judicial Review, 1788 | |
Kamper v. Hawkins, 1793 | |
Republican | |
Advocates the Repeal of the Federalist's | |
Judiciary Act, 1802 | |
v. Madison, 1803 | |
v. Hunter's Lessee, 1816 | |
v. Maryland, 1819 | |
President | |
Defies the Supreme Court and Vetoes the Bank Bill, 1832 | |
Essays:Larry D. Kramer, Marshall, Marbury, and the Defense of Judicial Review | |
Judicial Review and the Law of the Constitution | |
Spencer Roane, Judicial Power, and State Sovereignty CTimothy S. Huebner | |
Nullification, And Indian Removal | |
Documents: South | |
Proposes Nullification, 1828 | |
President | |
Advocates Indian Removal, 1829 | |
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831 | |
Worcester v. Georgia, 1832 | |
South Carolina Nullifies the Tariff, 1832 | |
South Carolina, 1832 | |
Essays: Jill Norgren, Worcester and the Politics of the Nullification Crisis | |
Gerard N. Magliocca, Jackson, Worcester, and Generational Change | |
, Slavery, And The Civil War | |
Documents: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass | |
Describes the Constitution as Anti-Slavery, 1852 | |
v. Sandford, 1857 | |
The Confederacy Writes a Constitution, 1861 | |
Rejects Secession and Criticizes the Supreme Court, 1861 | |
Ex parte Merryman, 1861 | |
Lincoln Emancipates Slaves in the Confederacy, 1863 | |
Lincoln Defends His Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 1863 | |
Essays: Daniel Farber, Lincoln's Mixed | |
Record on Individual Rights | |
Abraham Lincoln and the Transformation of American Liberty | |
Reconstruction And The Fourteenth Amendment | |
Documents: Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment, 1866 | |
The Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873 | |
v. Illinois, 1873 | |
v. Happersett, 1875 | |
The Civil Rights Cases, 1883 | |
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
Essays: Akhil Reed Amar, Reconstruction and the Birth of the Bill of Rights | |
Michael Les Benedict, The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction | |
The Supreme Court's Denial of the Rights of Women | |
Protective Legislation And The Liberty To Contract | |
Documents: Legal Scholar | |
Advocates a Limited Police Power, 1886 | |
The People's Party Announces | |
Its Agenda for Reform, 1896 | |
v. New York, 1905 | |
Reformers | |
Document the Hardships Faced by Women Industrial Workers, 1908 | |
v. Oregon, 1908 | |
Legal Scholar Roscoe Pound | |
Criticizes the Liberty to Contract, 1909 | |
v. Children's Hospital, 1923 | |
Essays: Paul Kens, The Lochner Court and Judicial Conservatism | |
Julie Novkov, Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era | |
Total War And The Emergence Of Modern Civil Liberties | |
Documents: President | |
Announces Regulations Governing Alien Enemies, 1917 | |
The Espionage Act Restricts Speech in Wartime, 1917/1918 | |
v. United States, 1919 | |
Legal Scholar Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Advocates Freedom of Speech, 1919 | |
v. United States, 1919 | |
v. New York, 1925 | |
Near v. Minnesota, 1931 | |
Essays: David M. Rabban, Oliver Wendell | |
Holmes and the Judicial Transformation of the First Amendment | |
The Civil Liberties | |
Bureau and the Origins of the Fight for Free Speech | |
The Depression, And The New Deal | |
Documents: The National Recovery Act | |
Attempts to Bring the Nation Out of the Depression, 1933 | |
The Agricultural Adjustment Act Provides | |
Subsidies for Farmers, 1933 | |
v. United States, 1935 | |
United States v. Butler, 1936 | |
Advocates Judicial Reform, 1937 | |
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1937 | |
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 1937 | |
Essays: Jim Powell, The 'Four Horsemen' Were Right | |
The New Deal Was Unconstitutional | |
The New Deal Shows the Flexibility--and Genius--of the Constitution | |
Race And Civil Rights | |
In The Cold War Era | |
Documents: Sweatt v. Painter, 1950 | |
An Amicus Brief Filed by the U.S. Government | |
Urges an End to Racial Segregation, 1953 | |
Brown v. Board of Education, I, 1954 | |
Brown v. Board of Education, II, 1955 | |
White Southern Members of Congress Declare | |
Their Opposition to Brown, 1956 | |
The Civil Rights Act Forbids | |
Discrimination in Public Education and Employment, 1964 | |
Vows to Fight Injustice and Inequality, 1965 | |
Essays: Derrick A. Bell, Brown Was Wrongly Decided | |
Kermit L. Hall, Brown Furthered the Cause of Human Rights | |
Abortion Rights | |
The United States And South Africa Compared | |
Documents: Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 | |
A Proposed Constitutional Amendment Promises | |
Equal Rights for Women, 1972 | |
Fundamentalist Pastor | |
Denounces the ERA, 1980 | |
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992 | |
South Africa's Constitution Affirms Women's Rights, 1996 | |
Christian Lawyer's Association of South | |
Africa v. Minister of Health, 1998 | |
Essays: John Hart Ely, Roe v. Wade Was a Mistake | |
Roe Symbolized an Idea Whose Time Had Come | |
Freedom Of And Freedom From Religion | |
Documents: Engel v. Vitale, 1962 | |
Comments on the School Prayer Decision, 1962 | |
Lemon v. Kurtzman, 1971 | |
Wallace v. Jaffree, 1985 | |
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 1990 | |
Congress Overturns Smith in the Religious | |
Freedom Restoration Act, 1993 | |
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 2002 | |
Essays: Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause | |
Erects a Wall of Separation | |
The Establishment Clause Was Not | |
Meant to Establish Public Secularism | |
Federalism And Judicial | |
Review Documents: Wickard v. Filburn, 1942 | |
Senator Barry Goldwater Defends the Rights of the States, 1960 | |
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 1964 | |
Congress Protects the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence, 1994 | |
United States v. Lopez, 1995 | |
Printz v. United States, 1997 | |
United States v. Morrison, 2000 | |
Essays: Steven G. Calabresi, In Defense of Federalism | |
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Federalism and the Protection of Male Sovereignty | |
Presidential Power From The Cold War | |
To The War On Terror | |
Documents: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952; | |
Congress Gives Authority to President Lyndon B. Johnson to Wage War in Vietnam, 1964 | |
Congress Reasserts Itself in the War Powers Resolution, 1973 | |
United States v. Nixon, 1974 | |
Congress Authorizes President | |
International Terrorism, 2001 | |
The Justice Department Asserts that Enforcement of Federal | |
Anti-Torture Laws Would Violate the President's | |
Powers as Commander-in-Chief, 2002 | |
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2004 | |
Essays: John Yoo, The President Possesses the Constitutional | |
Power to Wage War on Terrorism | |
Peter Irons, President Bush's War on Terrorism | |
Has Hijacked the Constitution | |
Appendix | |
Constitution of the United States | |
Justices of the United States Supreme Court | |
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