Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law

by Fisher, Louis

• ISBN13: 9780314242303
• ISBN10: 0314242309
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: WEST PUBLISHING CORP

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	xi
Table of Cases	xvii
Constitutional Politics	1	(22)
Participants and Processes	1	(8)
Three-Branch Interpretation	9	(14)
Judicial Authority	23	(38)
Judicial Review	23	(10)
McCulloch v. Maryland	33	(9)
Court Stripping	42	(8)
Justiciability	50	(5)
Political Questions	55	(6)
Federalism	61	(44)
Child Labor Cases	62	(5)
Packing and Unpacking the Court	67	(8)
Equal Accommodations	75	(6)
From National League to Garcia	81	(6)
Federalism in the 1990s	87	(10)
Boerne v. Flores	97	(8)
Separation of Powers: Domestic Conflicts	105	(48)
The Watergate Tapes Case	106	(10)
Legislative Veto	116	(11)
Gramm-Rudman	127	(4)
The Item Veto	131	(6)
Independent Counsels	137	(8)
Impeachment	145	(8)
The War Power and Covert Actions	153	(28)
The Power to Make War	153	(18)
The Steel Seizure Case	171	(10)
Privacy	181	(38)
The Reagan Administration v. Privacy	182	(9)
Executive and Legislative Responses to Roe	191	(16)
Returning Abortion to the States: The Consequences of Webster and Casey	207	(12)
Gay Rights	219	(24)
Bowers v. Hardwick	219	(12)
Romer v. Evans	231	(12)
Race	243	(54)
The Japanese-American Cases: The Failure of Constitutional Democracy	243	(13)
School Desegregation	256	(13)
Affirmative Action	269	(16)
Voting Rights	285	(12)
Gender	297	(16)
Traditional Stereotypes	297	(9)
The Struggle for Equal Rights	306	(7)
Women in the Military	313