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Researching Constitutional Law

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  • Edition: 3rd
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  • Copyright: 2004-02-01
  • Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

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Table of Contents

Preface xi
Primary Sources: Judicial Opinions and Statutory Law
1(30)
Introduction
1(2)
Supreme Court Opinions
3(4)
United States Reports (U.S.)
3(2)
United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition (L. Ed.)
5(1)
Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.)
5(1)
Non-Subscription Internet Sources for Supreme Court Opinions
6(1)
Access to Court Opinions through Subscription Services
7(2)
LexisNexis Academic
8(1)
Westlaw Campus
8(1)
Briefs Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court
9(2)
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law
10(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
10(1)
The Oyez Project: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
10(1)
LexisNexis and Findlaw
11(1)
Lower Federal Court Reports
11(4)
Federal Cases (F. Cas.)
12(1)
Federal Reporter (F.), (F. 2d), (F. 3d)
12(1)
Federal Appendix
13(1)
Federal Supplement (F. Supp.), (F. Supp. 2d)
14(1)
State Court Reporters
15(1)
American Law Reports (A.L.R.)
16(1)
Keeping Current on Case Law
17(2)
U.S. Law Week (U.S.L.W.)
18(1)
West's Federal Case News
19(1)
Statutory Law and Codification
19(4)
United States Code (U.S.C.)
21(1)
United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)
22(1)
United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
23(1)
State Codes
23(1)
Administrative Agency Reporting
23(2)
Federal Register
24(1)
Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
24(1)
Primary Historical Documents
25(3)
Legal Research Exercises
28(1)
Exercise 1---Court Reports
28(1)
Exercise 2---Codes
29(1)
Answers for Legal Exercises
29(1)
Exercise 1---Court Reports
29(1)
Exercise 2---Codes
29(1)
Endnotes
30(1)
Secondary Sources as Research Aids
31(34)
Introduction
31(1)
Compendia, Guides, and Summaries
32(2)
Treatises
34(2)
Legal Encyclopedias
36(5)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
37(1)
Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System
37(1)
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
37(1)
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
38(1)
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Supreme Court
38(1)
Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Quotations
38(1)
American Jurisprudence 2d (Am. Jur. 2d)
38(2)
Corpus Juris Secundum (C. J. S.)
40(1)
Digests
41(5)
American Digest System
42(1)
West's Key Number System®
42(1)
Specialized Digests
43(1)
Federal Practice Digest
43(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Digest
43(1)
Westlaw Campus and the Natural-Language Approach
44(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Reports Digest: Lawyers' Edition
44(1)
Other Electronic Subject Search Techniques
45(1)
Cite-Checking (Citators)
46(5)
Shepard's United States Citations: Cases
47(3)
Shepard's Federal Statute Citations
50(1)
Electronic Citators
50(1)
Periodical Literature and Indexes
51(6)
Index to Legal Periodicals
52(2)
Current Law Index
54(1)
Legal Trac
54(1)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
55(1)
Accessing Legal Periodicals in Electronic Format
55(1)
PAIS International in Print
55(1)
Social Sciences Index
56(1)
U.S. Government Periodicals Index
56(1)
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
56(1)
Newspapers as Secondary Sources
57(1)
Electronic Book Review
58(1)
Legal Mobilization Sites
58(1)
Law Dictionaries
59(1)
Legal Research Exercises
60(2)
Exercise 1---Legal Encyclopedias
60(1)
Exercise 2---Digests
61(1)
Exercise 3---Citators
61(1)
Exercise 4---Legal Periodicals
62(1)
Answers for Legal Exercises
62(1)
Exercise 1---Legal Encyclopedias
62(1)
Exercise 2---Digests
62(1)
Exercise 3---Citators
63(1)
Exercise 4---Legal Periodicals
63(1)
Endnotes
63(2)
Why and How to Brief a Case
65(12)
Introduction
65(2)
Elements of a Brief
67(6)
Name or Title of Case
68(1)
Legal Citation
68(1)
Statement of Facts
68(2)
Statement of Issues
70(1)
Decision and Action
71(1)
Reasoning of the Court
71(1)
Concurring Opinion(s)
72(1)
Dissenting Opinion(s)
72(1)
Voting Coalition
72(1)
Summary of Legal Principle(s)
72(1)
Free Space
72(1)
Model Brief
73(4)
Quantitative Applications
77(16)
Introduction
77(1)
Lebeling and Counting Judicial Votes
78(2)
Scaling Cases
80(8)
Preliminary Stage
80(2)
Constructing a Scale
82(4)
Missing Values Problem
86(2)
Bloc Analysis
88(4)
Constructing Blocs
89(3)
Cases and Data Analysis
92(1)
Endnotes
92(1)
Writing and Documenting Research Papers
93(32)
Introduction
93(1)
Choosing a Topic
94(1)
Designing the Research Project
95(4)
Research Design
95(4)
The Format for a Paper
99(1)
Special Writing Problems
100(1)
Documentation of Sources
101(2)
What to Cite?
101(2)
Footnote or Endnote Format
103(1)
Bibliography Form
104(2)
Sample Citations
106(14)
Footnoting or Endnoting Books
106(3)
Footnoting or Endnoting Journal and Magazine Articles
109(1)
Footnoting Encyclopedias, Almanacs, and Other Works
110(2)
Documenting Legal Sources
112(4)
Documentation for Electronic Sources
116(2)
Later References to the Same Footnote or Endnote Source
118(1)
Second References with Intervening Citations
119(1)
In-Text Citation Form
120(3)
Guide to In-Text References
120(2)
References at the End of the Paper
122(1)
Sample Reference Page
123(1)
Endnotes
123(2)
Summaries of Leading Supreme Court Decisions
125(54)
Introduction
125(1)
Summaries
126(53)
Abington Township v. Schempp
126(1)
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena
126(1)
Alden v. Maine
126(1)
Baker v. Carr
127(1)
Barenblatt v. United States
127(1)
Barron v. Baltimore
128(1)
Boerne, City of v. Flores
129(1)
Bolling v. Sharpe
129(1)
Bowers v. Hardwick
130(1)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
130(1)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka I
131(1)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka II
131(1)
Buckley v. Valeo
132(1)
Bush v. Gore
133(1)
Butchers' Benevolent Association v. Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Co. (Slaughterhouse Cases)
134(1)
Chandler v. Miller
134(1)
Civil Rights Cases
135(1)
Clinton v. Jones
135(1)
Clinton v. New York, City of
136(1)
Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia
136(1)
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
137(1)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
137(1)
Dennis v. United States
137(1)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
138(1)
Ex Parte McCardle
138(1)
Ex Parte Milligan
139(1)
Fletcher v. Peck
139(1)
Furman v. Georgia
140(1)
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
140(1)
Gibbons v. Ogden
141(1)
Gideon v. Wainwright
141(1)
Gitlow v. New York
142(1)
Gratz v. Bollinger
142(1)
Griswold v. Connecticut
143(1)
Grutter v. Bollinger
144(1)
Hammer v. Dagenhart
144(1)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
145(1)
Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell
145(1)
Hurtado v. California
146(1)
Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha
146(1)
Katz v. United States
147(1)
Katzenbach v. McClung
147(1)
Korematsu v. United States
148(1)
Lawrence v. Texas
148(1)
Lemon v. Kurtzman
149(1)
Lochner v. New York
149(1)
Lucas v. South Carolina Costal Council
150(1)
Luther v. Borden
150(1)
McCulloch v. Maryland
151(1)
Mapp v. Ohio
151(1)
Marbury v. Madison
152(1)
Miller v. California
152(1)
Milliken v. Bradley
153(1)
Miranda v. Arizona
153(1)
Missouri v. Holland
154(1)
Munn v. Illinois
154(1)
Murray v. Curlett
155(1)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
155(1)
National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab
156(1)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
156(1)
New York Times Co. v. United States
156(1)
Nixon v. Fitzgerald
157(1)
Palko v. Connecticut
157(1)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
158(1)
Plessy v. Ferguson
158(1)
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co.
159(1)
Powell v. Alabama
159(1)
Prize Cases
160(1)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
160(1)
Reynolds v. Sims
161(1)
Richmond, City of v. J.A. Croson Co.
162(1)
Roe v. Wade
163(1)
Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
163(1)
Saenz v. Roe
164(1)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
165(1)
Schenck v. United States
165(1)
School District of Abington Township v. Schempp, Murray v. Curlett
166(1)
Scott v. Sanford
166(1)
Shelley v. Kraemer
166(1)
Slaughterhouse Cases
167(1)
Smith v. Allwright
167(1)
Stuart v. Laird
167(1)
Texas v. Johnson
168(1)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
168(1)
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
169(1)
United States v. Butler
170(1)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.
170(1)
United States v. Darby
171(1)
United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
172(1)
United States v. Leon
172(1)
United States v. Lopez
173(1)
United States v. Nixon
173(1)
United States v. United States District Court for Eastern District of Michigan
174(1)
U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
174(1)
University of California v. Bakke
175(1)
Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York
175(1)
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
175(1)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
176(1)
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
177(1)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
177(2)
Appendix A: Sample Research Design
179(8)
Appendix B: The United States Constitution
187(18)
Glossary of Terms and Phrases
205(26)
Bibliography
231(64)
The Judicial System
231(4)
Jurisprudence
235(5)
Constitutional Law---General
240(1)
Constitutional History
241(7)
Federalism
248(3)
Congress
251(2)
The Presidency
253(4)
Civil Rights and Liberties
257(15)
Comparative Constitutional Politics
272(8)
Law and Society
280(10)
Legal Profession
290(5)
Index 295

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