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PART I An Introduction to the U.S. Constitution
Chapter 1. The Living Constitution
The Amendment Process
The Supreme Court and the Living Constitution
Coleman v. Miller (1939)
NOW v. Idaho (1982)
Chapter 2. Understanding the Supreme Court
PART II Insitutional Authority
Chapter 3. The Judiciary
The Establishment of the Federal Judiciary
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
Judicial Review
Hylton v. United States (1796)
Constraints on Judicial Review
Luther v. Borden (1849)
Colegrove v. Green (1946)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Frothingham v. Mellon (1923)
Flast v. Cohen (1968)
Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc.
(2007)
Chapter 4. The Legislature
Historical Overview
Members of Congress: Qualifications, Immunity, and Discipline
Powell v. McCormack (1969)
Kilbourn v. Thompson (1881)
Gravel v. United States(1972)
The Sources and Scope of Legislative Powers
McGrain v. Daugherty (1927)
Watkins v. United States (1957)
Barenblatt v. United States (1959)
Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935)
Congress and the Separation of Powers
Hampton & Company v. United States (1928)
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Dickerson v. United States (2000)
Chapter 5. The Executive
Selection and Formal Powers
Domestic Powers of the President
In re Neagle (1890)
Train v. City of New York (1975)
Bowsher v. Synar (1986)
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Morrison v. Olson (1988)
Myers v. United States (1926)
Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935)
Mississippi v. Johnson (1867)
Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982)
The President and Foreign Affairs
The Prize Cases (1863)
Ex parte Milligan (1866)
Ex parte Quirin (1942)
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
Boumediene v. Bush (2008)
Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
PART III. Introduction to Nation-State Relations
Chapter 6. Federalism
The Marshall Court and the Rise of National Supremacy
The Taney Court and the (Re)Emergence of States' Rights
Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Dual Federalism and Laissez-Faire Economics
The (Re)Emergence of National Supremacy: Cooperative Federalism
National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
The Return to Dual Federalism
New York v. United States (1992)
Alden v. Maine (1999)
Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)
Chapter 7. The Commerce Power
Constitutional Foundations of the Commerce Power
Defining Interstate Commerce
Houston, E. & W. Railway Co. v. United States (1914)
Kidd v. Pearson (1888)
United States v. E.C. Knight (1895)
Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
Swift & Company v. United States (1905)
Stafford v. Wallace (1922)
The Supreme Court, the New Deal, and Beyond
Gonzalez v. Raich (2005)
Panama Refining Company v. Ryan (1935)
Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935)
Carter v. Carter Coal (1936)
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
United States v. Morrison (2000)
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Corps of Engineers (2001)
Regulating Commerce as a Federal Police Power
The Commerce Power and the States
Chapter 8. The Power to Tax and Spend
The Constitutional Power to Tax and Spend
United States v. United States Shoe Corporation (1998)
Direct Taxes and the Power to Tax Income
Hylton v. United States (1796)
Springer v. United States (1881)
Intergovernmental Tax Immunity
Collector v. Day (1871)
Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe (1939)
South Carolina v. Baker (1988)
Davis v. Michigan Department of Treasury (1989)
Taxation as a Regulatory Power
McCray v. United States (1904)
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
Taxing and Spending for the General Welfare
United States v. Butler (1936)
PART IV. Economic Liberties and Individual Rights
Chapter 9. The Contract Clause
The Framers and the Contract Clause
John Marshall and the Contract Clause
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
The Decline of the Contract Clause
Fertilizing Company v. Hyde Park (1878)
Stone v. Mississippi (1880)
Contemporary Applications of the Contract Clause
United States Trust v. New Jersey (1977)
Allied Structural Steel v. Spannaus (1979)
Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power and Light (1983)
Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. DeBenedictis (1987)
Chapter 10. Economic Substantive Due Process
The Development of Substantive Due Process
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Mugler v. Kansas (1887)
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway v. Minnesota (1890)
Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897)
The Roller-Coaster Ride of Substantive Due Process
Holden v. Hardy (1898)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
The Heyday of Substantive Due Process
The Depression, the New Deal, and the Decline of Substantive Due Process
Nebbia v. New York (1934)
Morehead v. New York ex rel. Tipaldo (1936)
Williamson v. Lee Optical Company (1955)
Pennell v. City of San Jose (1988)
BMW of North America v. Gore (1996)
Chapter 11. The Takings Clause
Protecting Private Property from Government Seizure
Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad v. Chicago (1897)
What Constitutes a Taking?
United States v. Causby (1946)
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922)
The Public Use Requirement
Resurrecting the Takings Clause
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)
Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994)
Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002)
PART V. Approaching Civil Liberties
Chapter 12. Religion: Exercise and Establishment
Free Exercise of Religion
Reynolds v. United States (1879)
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)
Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
Thomas v. Review Board of Indiana Employment Security Div. (1981)
United States v. Lee (1982)
Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Gonzales v. O Centro Espitita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegital (2006)
Religious Establishment
McCreary County, Kentucky v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (2005)
Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
Locke v. Davey (2004)
Bradfield v. Roberts (1899)
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995)
Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
County of Allegheny v. ACLU (1989)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
Lee v. Weisman (1992)
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
Chapter 13. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
The Development of Legal Standards: The Emergence of Law in Times of Crisis
Abrams v. United States (1919)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Whitney v. California (1927)
Stromberg v. California (1931)
DeJonge v. Oregon (1937)
United States v. Carolene Products (1938)
Thomas v. Collins (1945)
American Communications Association v. Douds (1950)
Dennis v. United States (1951)
Brandenberg v. Ohio (1969)
Regulating Expression: Content and Contexts
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003)
Thornhill v. Alabama (1940)
United States v. O'Brien (1968)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Morse v. Frederick (2007)
Ward v. Rock Against Racism (1989)
Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)
Virginia v. Black (2003)
Bigelow v. Virginia (1975)
Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976)
Linmark Associates v. Township of Willingboro (1977)
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1977)
Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000)
Rumsfeld v. FAIR (2006)
Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
Hurley v. Irish American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995)
California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000)
Chapter 14. Freedom of the Press
Prior Restraint
New York Times v. United States (1971)
The Media and Special Rights
Zurcher v. Stanford Daily (1978)
Hochins v. KQED (1978)
The Boundaries of Free Press: Obscenity and Libel
Butler v. Michigan (1957)
Roth v. United States (1957)
Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)
Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966)
Paris Adult Theatre v. Slaton (1973)
Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts (1967)
Associated Press v. Walker (1967)
Gertz v. Welch (1974)
Time, Inc. Firestone (1976)
New Methods of Expression: the Internet
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002)
United States v. Williams (2008)
Chapter 15. The Right to Privacy
The Right to Privacy: Foundations
Olmstead v. United States (1928)
Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
Poe v. Ullman (1961)
Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy
Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (1976)
Harris v. McCrae (1980)
Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
Stenberg v. Carhardt (2000)
Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
Private Activities and the Application of Griswold
Katz v. United States (1967)
Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
Vacco v. Quill (1997)
National Treasury Union v. Von Raab (1989)
Vernonia School District A7J v. Acton (1995)
Chandler v. Miller (1997)
Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)
PART VI. The Rights of the Criminally Accused
Chapter 16. Investigations and Evidence
Searches and Seizures
Georgia v. Randolph (2006)
Terry v. Ohio (1968)
Weeks v. United States (1914)
Wolf v. Colorado (1949)
The Fifth Amendment and Self-Incrimination
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Dickerson v. United States (2000)
Chapter 17. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
The Right to Counsel
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
Betts v. Brady
Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972)
Scott v. Illinois (1979)
Douglas v. California (1963)
Ross v. Moffitt (1974)
Fair Trials
Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966)
Maryland v. Craig (1990)
Sentencing and the Eighth Amendment
Roper v. Simmons (2005)
Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008)
Ewing v. California (2003)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
Baze v. Rees (2008)
Post Trial Stages
Ashe v. Swenson (1970)
PART VII. Civil Rights
The Fourteenth Amendment
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)
The Fifteenth Amendment
Congressional Enforcement of Civil Rights
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Chapter 18. Discrimination
Racial Discrimination
Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
McLaurin v. Oklahoma Board of Regents (1950)
Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)
Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
Griffin v. Prince Edward County School Board (1964)
Green v. School Board of New Kent County (1968)
Swann v. Charlotte-Mechlenburg Board of Education (1971)
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1;
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (2007)
Sex Discrimination
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
Orr v. Orr (1979)
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982)
United States v. Virginia (1996)
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County (1981)
Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)
Economic Discrimination
Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
Bowers v . Hardwick (1986)
Remedying the Effects of Discrimination: Affirmative Action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
United States v. Paradise (1987)
City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989)
Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980)
Adarand Constructors v. Pena (1995)
Chapter 19. Voting and Representation
The Supreme Court and Elections
Voting Rights
Oregon v. Mitchell (1970)
Louisiana v. United States (1965)
Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966)
Kramer v. Union Free School District (1969)
Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (2008)
Regulation of Election Campaigns
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Randall v. Sorrell (2006)
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.
(2007)
Political Representation
Colegrove v. Green (1946)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh v. Carey (1977)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
LULAC v. Perry (2006)
