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9781577661405

Researching Constitutional Law

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    9781577661405

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    1577661400

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

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Table of Contents

Preface i
Primary Sources: Judicial Opinions And Statutory Law
1(24)
Introduction
1(1)
Supreme Court Opinions
2(3)
United States Reports (U.S.)
2(1)
United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition (L. Ed.)
3(1)
Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.)
4(1)
Internet Sources for Supreme Court Opinions
5(1)
Briefs Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court
5(2)
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law
6(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
6(1)
Oyez Project: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
7(1)
LEXIS-NEXIS and Findlaw
7(1)
Lower Federal Court Reports
7(2)
Federal Cases (F. Cas.)
7(1)
Federal Reporter (F.), (F. 2d), (F. 3d)
8(1)
Federal Supplement (F. Supp.), (F. Supp. 2d)
8(1)
State Court Reporters
9(1)
American Law Reports (A.L.R.)
10(1)
Keeping Current on Case Law
11(3)
U.S. Law Week (U.S.L.W.)
13(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin (S. Ct. Bull.)
13(1)
West's Federal Case News
14(1)
Statutory Law and Codification
14(3)
United States Code (U.S.C.)
16(1)
United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)
16(1)
United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
17(1)
The Internet and the U.S. Code
17(1)
Administrative Agency Reporting
17(2)
Federal Register
18(1)
Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
18(1)
Primary Historical Documents
19(3)
Legal Research Exercises
22(1)
Court Reports
22(1)
Codes
23(1)
Answers for Legal Exercises
23(1)
Court Reports
23(1)
Codes
23(1)
Endnotes
23(2)
Secondary Sources As Research Aids
25(30)
Introduction
25(1)
Compendia, Guides, and Summaries
25(3)
Treatises
28(2)
Legal Encyclopedias
30(4)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
30(1)
Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System
31(1)
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
31(1)
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
31(1)
American Jurisprudence 2d (Am. Jur. 2d)
32(1)
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.)
33(1)
Digests
34(4)
American Digest System
35(1)
Specialized Digests
36(2)
Citators
38(5)
Shepard's United States Citations: Cases
39(3)
Shepard's United States Citations: Statutes
42(1)
Electronic Citators
42(1)
Periodical Literature and Indexes
43(5)
Index to Legal Periodicals
44(1)
Current Law Index
45(1)
Legal Trac
45(1)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
46(1)
Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law
46(1)
PAIS International in Print
46(1)
Social Science Index
46(1)
U.S. Government Periodicals Index
47(1)
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
47(1)
The New York Times Index
47(1)
Electronic Book Review
47(1)
Law Dictionaries
48(1)
Computer-Terminal Research Aids
48(1)
Surfing the Net
49(1)
Legal Research Exercises
49(3)
Legal Encyclopedia
50(1)
Digests
50(1)
Citators
51(1)
Legal Periodicals
51(1)
Answers for Legal Eercises
52(1)
Legal Encyclopedia
52
Digests
2(50)
Citators
52(1)
Legal Periodicals
52(1)
Endnotes
53(2)
Why and How to Brief a Case
55(10)
Introduction
55(2)
Elements of a Brief
57(5)
Model Brief
62(3)
Quantitative Applications
65(16)
Introduction
65(1)
Labeling and Counting Judicial Votes
66(1)
Scaling Cases
67(8)
Preliminary Stage
68(2)
Constructing a Scale
70(5)
Bloc Analysis
75(4)
Constructing Blocs
76(3)
Cases and Data Analysis
79(1)
Endnotes
79(2)
Writing and Documenting Research Papers
81(30)
Introduction
81(1)
Choosing a Topic
81(2)
Designing the Research Project
83(3)
Research Design
83(3)
The Format for a Paper
86(1)
Special Writing Problems
87(1)
Citations
88(2)
What to Cite?
88(2)
Footnote or Endnote Format
90(1)
Bibliography Form
91(1)
Sample Citations
92(14)
Footnoting or Endnoting Books
92(3)
Footnoting or Endnoting Journal and Magazine Articles
95(1)
Footnoting Encyclopedias, Almanacs, and Other Works
96(3)
Documenting Legal Sources
99(3)
Footnoting or Endnoting Government Documents
102(3)
Internet Documentation
105(1)
Later References to the Same Footnote or Endnote Source
105(1)
Second References with Intervening Citations
105(1)
Scientific Reference Form
106(5)
Summaries of Leading Supreme Court Decisions
111(48)
Introduction
111(1)
Summaries
112(47)
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND PHRASES 159(24)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 183(50)
The Judicial System
183(4)
Jurisprudence
187(2)
Constitutional Law---General
189(1)
Constitutional History
190(7)
Federalism
197(3)
Congress
200(2)
The Presidency
202(4)
Civil Rights and Liberties
206(14)
Comparative Constitutional Politics
220(5)
Law and Society
225(6)
Legal Profession
231(2)
Index 233

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