Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice,9781568025421

Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9781568025421
ISBN10: 1568025424
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Congressional Quarterly Inc
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Summary

This book is part of a two-volume set that highlights the role of politics in the development of constitutional law. It covers Americans' various rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press while it also examines cases that have addressed both discrimination and defendants' rights.

Author Biography

Lee Epstein is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Washington University Thomas G. Walker is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Emory University

Table of Contents

Preface xvii
I THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CONSTITUTION
The Living Constitution
3(1)
The Road to the Bill of Rights
3(4)
The Amendment Process
7(1)
The Supreme Court and the Amendment Process
7(3)
Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court
10(39)
Processing Supreme Court Cases
10(12)
Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Legally Relevant Approaches
22(10)
Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Extralegal Approaches
32(11)
Conducting Research on the Supreme Court
43(3)
Readings
46(3)
The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints
49(22)
Judicial Review
49(10)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
50(9)
Constraints on Judical Power
59(11)
Ex parte McCardle (1869)
60(10)
Readings
70(1)
Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
71(30)
Must States Abide by the Bill of Rights? Initial Responses
71(3)
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
72(2)
Incorporation Through the Fourteenth Amendment: Early Interpretations
74(6)
Hurtado v. California (1884)
75(5)
A Standard Emerges
80(4)
Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
81(3)
Incorporation in the Aftermath of Palko
84(9)
Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
86(7)
Readings
93(4)
II CIVIL LIBERTIES
Approaching Civil Liberties
97(4)
Religion: Exercise and Establishment
101(107)
Defining Religion
102(3)
Free Exercise of Religion
105(38)
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
107(6)
Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
113(5)
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
118(8)
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
126(9)
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
135(8)
Religious Establishment
143(64)
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
146(11)
Lemon v. Kurtzman; Earley v. DiCenso (1971)
157(10)
Agostini v. Felton (1997)
167(13)
Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
180(9)
School District of Abington Township v. Schempp (1963)
189(8)
Lee v. Weisman (1992)
197(10)
Readings
207(1)
Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
208(102)
The Development of Legal Standards: The Emergence of Law in Times of Crisis
208(33)
Schenck v. United States (1919)
211(2)
Abrams v. United States (1919)
213(5)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
218(11)
Dennis v. United States (1951)
229(7)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
236(5)
Regulating Expression: Content and Contexts
241(68)
United States v. O'Brien (1968)
244(3)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
247(5)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
252(6)
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
258(1)
Cohen v. California (1971)
259(7)
Hill v. Colorado (2000)
266(6)
R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota (1992)
272(6)
Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)
278(3)
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
281(5)
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
286(7)
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1977)
293(6)
Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York (1980)
299(4)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
303(6)
Readings
309(1)
Freedom of the Press
310(38)
Prior Restraint
311(19)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
311(5)
New York Times v. United States (1971)
316(9)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
325(5)
Government Control of Press Content
330(10)
Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (1969)
335(5)
The Media and Special Rights
340(6)
Branzburg v. Hayes (1972)
340(6)
Readings
346(2)
The Boundaries of Free Expression: Obscenity and Libel
348(55)
Obscenity
348(30)
Roth v. United States (1957)
350(7)
Miller v. California (1973)
357(5)
New York v. Ferber (1982)
362(11)
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)
373(5)
Libel
378(24)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
379(10)
Gertz v. Welch (1974)
389(6)
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)
395(7)
Readings
402(1)
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
403(9)
The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment
404(2)
United States v. Miller (1939)
404(2)
The States and the Second Amendment
406(1)
Rethinking the Second Amendment
407(4)
Readings
411(1)
The Right to Privacy
412(73)
The Right to Privacy: Foundations
413(8)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
415(6)
Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy: Abortion
421(20)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
423(18)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
441(16)
Private Activities and the Application of Griswold
457(17)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
458(6)
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)
464(10)
Readings
474(5)
III THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED
The Criminal Justice System and Constitutional Rights
479(1)
Overview of the Criminal Justice System
479(3)
Trends in Court Decisionmaking
482(3)
Investigations and Evidence
485(71)
The Fourth Amendment: Historical Notes
486(1)
The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment
487(30)
Illinois v. Gates (1983)
488(5)
Katz v. United States (1967)
493(9)
Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton (1995)
502(6)
Terry v. Ohio (1968)
508(9)
Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: The Exclusionary Rule
517(14)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
519(7)
United States v. Leon (1984)
526(5)
The Fifth Amendment and Self-Incrimination
531(23)
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
532(4)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
536(12)
Dickerson v. United States (2000)
548(6)
Readings
554(2)
Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
556(72)
The Right to Counsel
556(11)
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
557(4)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
561(6)
The Pretrial Period and the Right to Bail
567(4)
United States v. Salerno (1987)
567(4)
The Sixth Amendment and Fair Trials
571(18)
Batson v. Kentucky (1986)
574(7)
Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966)
581(4)
Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia (1980)
585(4)
Trial Proceedings
589(1)
Final Trial Stage: An Overview of Sentencing
590(1)
The Eight Amendment
591(21)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
593(9)
McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
602(10)
The Double Jeopardy Clause
612(2)
Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments: (Re)Emerging Issues
614(1)
Readings
614(5)
IV CIVIL RIGHTS
Civil Rights and the Constitution
619(1)
The Fourteenth Amendment
620(6)
The Fifteenth Amendment
626(2)
Discrimination
628(122)
Racial Discrimination
628(41)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
629(7)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
636(2)
Brown v. Board of Education (I) (1954)
638(4)
Brown v. Board of Education (II) (1955)
642(3)
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)
645(5)
United States v. Fordice (1992)
650(6)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
656(5)
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
661(3)
Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority (1961)
664(2)
Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis (1972)
666(3)
Sex Discrimination
669(27)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
671(3)
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
674(3)
Craig v. Boren (1976)
677(6)
United States v. Virginia (1996)
683(8)
Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)
691(5)
Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
696(6)
Romer v. Evans (1996)
696(6)
Other Forms of Discrimination
702(16)
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
704(7)
Saenz v. Roe (1999)
711(7)
Remedying the Effects of Discrimination: Affirmative Action
718(27)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
721(8)
Johnson v. Transportation Agency of Santa Clara County, California (1987)
729(4)
City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989)
733(6)
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena (1995)
739(6)
Contemporary Developments in Discrimination Law
745(3)
Readings
748(2)
Voting and Representation
750(85)
Voting Rights
750(16)
Louisiana v. United States (1965)
754(3)
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
757(6)
California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000)
763(3)
Political Representation
766(27)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
769(5)
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
774(12)
Miller v. Johnson (1995)
786(7)
Readings
793(4)
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Constitution of the United States
797(10)
Federalist Paper, No. 78
807(4)
U.S. Presidents
811(2)
Thumbnail Sketch of the Supreme Court's History
813(2)
The Justices
815(6)
Natural Courts
821(6)
Supreme Court Calendar
827(1)
Briefing Supreme Court Cases
828(2)
Glossary
830(5)
Subject Index 835(18)
Case Index 853(7)
Illustration Credits 860

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