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9780669212105

Major Problems in American Constitutional History Volume II: From 1870 to the Present

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  • Copyright: 1991-01-02
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Table of Contents

Constitutional History and Constitutionalism
1(22)
Essays
A History of Rights Consciousness
2(13)
Hendrik Hartog
In Defense of Liberal Pluralism and Constitutionalism
15(8)
Herman Belz
Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism and Liberty in the Late Nineteenth Century
23(57)
Documents
24(29)
Cooley on Constitutional Limitations, 1869
25(2)
Jurist Thomas M.
The Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wallace 36 (1873)
27(4)
Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1877)
31(3)
United States v. E. C. Knight, 156 U.S. 1 (1895)
34(7)
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 158 U.S. 601 (1895)
41(3)
In Re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895)
44(6)
The People's Party Platform, 1896
50(3)
Essays
53(27)
Traditional Legal Conservatism
54(8)
Arnold M. Paul
The Libertarian Foundations of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism
62(18)
Michael Les Benedict
Paternalistic Sexism and Liberty to Contract, 1873-1923
80(62)
Documents
81(36)
Legal Scholar Christopher G. Tiedeman on the Limitations of Police Power, 1886
82(3)
Ritchie v. The People, 155 Ill. 106 (1895)
85(5)
Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578 (1897)
90(2)
Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366 (1898)
92(2)
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 4 (1905)
94(6)
AFL Leader Samuel Gompers on Why Married Women Should Not Work, 1906
100(1)
Louis D. Brandeis and Josephine Goldmark on Women in Industry, 1908
101(2)
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908)
103(3)
Roscoe Pound on Liberty of Contract, 1909
106(4)
Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923)
110(7)
Essays
117(25)
Women Workers and Liberty to Contract
118(11)
Judith A. Baer
The Courts and the Limits of Liberty to Contract
129(13)
Melvin I. Urofsky
The Emergence of Modern Civil Liberties
142(46)
Documents
143(23)
The Espionage Act, 1917/1918
143(1)
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919)
144(2)
``Workers Wake Up,'' Version One, 1918
146(1)
``Workers Wake Up,'' Version Two, 1918
147(1)
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
148(5)
Legal Scholar Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Considers Freedom of Speech in Wartime, 1918
153(4)
Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925)
157(6)
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
163(3)
Essays
166(22)
The Limits of Liberty
166(8)
Walter F. Berns
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Clear and Present Danger
174(8)
Richard Polenberg
Freedom of the Press and the Fourteenth Amendment
182(6)
Paul L. Murphy
Presidential Leadership and Court Packing
188(54)
Documents
189(27)
Shechter v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935)
189(5)
Liberal Washington Journalists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen on the ``Nine Old Men,'' 1936
194(3)
The Judiciary Reform Act of 1937
197(1)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Advocates Judicial Reform, 1937
198(6)
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Defends the Supreme Court's Performance, 1937
204(2)
The Senate Judiciary Committee's Report Rejects FDR's Plan, 1937
206(7)
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 397 (1937)
213(3)
Essays
216(26)
The Logic of FDR's Court-Packing Scheme
216(10)
William E. Leuchtenburg
Court Packing as a Failure of Presidential Leadership
226(16)
Michael Nelson
The Cold War and Civil Liberties
242(51)
Documents
243(27)
John Dewey on Liberalism and Civil Liberties, 1936
243(3)
The Alien Registration Act (Smith Act), 1940
246(1)
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on the Smith Act, 1940
247(4)
Dennis et al. v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951)
251(9)
Political Scientist John P. Roche Argues That We've Never Had More Freedom, 1956
260(5)
Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)
265(4)
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)
269(1)
Essays
270(23)
Anticommunist Hysteria and Political Persecution
271(12)
Michael Belknap
Free Speech Belongs to the Virtuous
283(10)
Walter Berns
The Modern Presidency
293(63)
Documents
294(37)
Taft on President Harry S Truman's Power to Make War, 1950
295(4)
Senator Robert A.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
299(11)
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964
310(1)
President Richard M. Nixon Views the Problems Before Him, 1969
311(2)
The War Powers Resolution, 1973
313(4)
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
317(7)
Senator Sam Ervin on Watergate and the Presidency, 1974
324(7)
Essays
331(25)
The Influence of Presidential Personality
331(13)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Vietnam War as a Failure of Congress to Act
344(8)
Alexander M. Bickel
Watergate and Reform of the Presidency
352(4)
Philip B. Kurland
Affirmative Action
356(51)
Documents
357(34)
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
358(5)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
363(3)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
366(1)
The Southern Manifesto, 1956
367(2)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
369(5)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
374(6)
Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448 (1980)
380(3)
Black Economist Thomas Sowell Asks, ``Are Quotas Good for Blacks?'' 1978
383(8)
Essays
391(16)
The Luminous but Flawed Goal of Racial Justice
392(6)
J. Harvie Wilkinson III
The Morality of Affirmative Action
398(9)
J. Skelly Wright
Women and Equal Rights
407(55)
Documents
408(30)
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 419 (1965)
409(1)
Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973)
410(2)
The Equal Rights Amendment, 1972
412(1)
Phyllis Schlafly Opposes the ERA, 1973
412(5)
Marlow W. Cook Supports the ERA, 1973
417(5)
The Reverend Jerry Falwell on the ERA, 1980
422(1)
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
423(12)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services et al., 57 L.W. 5023 (1989)
435(3)
Essays
438(24)
Why Roe v. Wade Was a Mistake
439(8)
John Hart Ely
The Reality of Biological Differences for Gender Equality
447(7)
Sylvia Law
Gender as Disadvantage Rather than Difference
454(8)
Deborah L. Rhode
Freedom of and Freedom from Religion
462(44)
Documents
463(30)
James Madison Warns Against Religious Establishment, 1785
464(4)
Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing, 330 U.S. 1 (1947)
468(6)
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
474(6)
President John F. Kennedy, Discusses the Supreme Court and Public-School Prayer, 1962
480(1)
Ishmael Jaffree Opposes Public-School Prayer, 1985
480(6)
Jaffree v. The Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 554 Fed. Supp. 1104 (1983)
486(3)
Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985)
489(2)
Senator Jesse Helms on Prayer in the Public Schools, 1985
491(2)
Essays
493(13)
The Supreme Court's Usurpation of Freedom of Religion
493(7)
James McClellan
The Supreme Court's Defense of Freedom of Religion
500(6)
Leonard W. Levy
The Constitutionality of the Death Penalty
506(43)
Documents
507(25)
Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947)
508(2)
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)
510(6)
Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976)
516(4)
A Sample of Georgia Murder Cases, 1960-1978
520(2)
McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987)
522(10)
Essays
532(17)
The Morality of the Death Penalty
533(6)
Walter Berns
The Whim and Caprice of the Death Penalty
539(4)
Charles L. Black
Race and the Death Penalty
543(6)
David Baldus et al
Original Intent and Constitutional Interpretation
549
Documents
550
Fomer Attorney General Edwin Meese III on the Wisdom of Relying on the Framers' Original Intentions, 1985
551
Former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., on the Failure of the Doctrine of Original Intent, 1985
557
Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Constitution's Bicentennial: Commemorating the Wrong Document? 1987
566
Essays
567
Original Intent as a Curb on Judicial Power
568
Raoul Berger
The Failure of Original Intent
571
Leonard W. Levy
APPENDIX i
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
i
Constitution of the United States of America
ix
Amendments to the Constitution
xviii
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
xxvii
Supreme Court Nominations, 1789-1990
xl

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