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Interpreting American Constitutional History | |
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Essays: Jennifer Nedelsky | |
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The Constitution and the Protection of Private Property | |
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The Supreme Court as a Unifying | |
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Force in American Culture | |
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Popular Constitutionalism | |
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Gender and American Citizenship | |
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Creating The American Republic | |
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Documents: Political Theorist | |
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Describes the Ends of Political | |
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Society and Government, 1690 | |
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American Colonists Declare | |
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Their Independence, 1776 | |
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The American Colonies Form a Confederation, 1777 | |
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Convention Delegate | |
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Proposes the Virginia Plan, May 29, 1787 | |
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Proposes the New Jersey Plan, June 15, 1787 | |
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Delegates Debate the Creation of a National Legislature, May-June, 1787 | |
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Delegates Debate Slavery and Representation, June-July, 1787 | |
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Delegate | |
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Advocates an Extended Republic, 1788 | |
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Essays: Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Debate over Representation | |
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The Power of Ideas in the Convention | |
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Representation of Women in the Constitution | |
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Documents: Virginian | |
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Champions Religious Liberty, 1785 | |
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Anti-Federalist | |
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Outlines his Objections to the Proposed Constitution, 1787 | |
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Madison Advocates a Bill of Rights, 1789 | |
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The Sedition Act Limits | |
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Criticism of the National Government, 1798 | |
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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | |
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Decry the Abuse of National Power, 1798-1799 | |
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Lyon's Case, 1798 | |
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Essays: Saul Cornell, The Anti-Federalists and American Liberty | |
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The Republicans and the Transformation of Libertarian Thought | |
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The Departmental Theory And The Establishment Of Judicial Review | |
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Documents: Federalist | |
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Defends Judicial Review, 1788 | |
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Kamper v. Hawkins, 1793 | |
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Republican | |
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Advocates the Repeal of the Federalist's | |
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Judiciary Act, 1802 | |
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v. Madison, 1803 | |
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v. Hunter's Lessee, 1816 | |
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v. Maryland, 1819 | |
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President | |
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Defies the Supreme Court and Vetoes the Bank Bill, 1832 | |
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Essays:Larry D. Kramer, Marshall, Marbury, and the Defense of Judicial Review | |
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Judicial Review and the Law of the Constitution | |
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Spencer Roane, Judicial Power, and State SovereigntyCTimothy S. Huebner | |
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Nullification, And Indian Removal | |
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Documents: South | |
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Proposes Nullification, 1828 | |
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President | |
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Advocates Indian Removal, 1829 | |
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831 | |
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Worcester v. Georgia, 1832 | |
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South Carolina Nullifies the Tariff, 1832 | |
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South Carolina, 1832 | |
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Essays: Jill Norgren, Worcester and the Politics of the Nullification Crisis | |
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Gerard N. Magliocca, Jackson, Worcester, and Generational Change | |
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, Slavery, And The Civil War | |
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Documents: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass | |
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Describes the Constitution as Anti-Slavery, 1852 | |
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v. Sandford, 1857 | |
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The Confederacy Writes a Constitution, 1861 | |
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Rejects Secession and Criticizes the Supreme Court, 1861 | |
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Ex parte Merryman, 1861 | |
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Lincoln Emancipates Slaves in the Confederacy, 1863 | |
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Lincoln Defends His Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 1863 | |
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Essays: Daniel Farber, Lincoln's Mixed | |
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Record on Individual Rights | |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Transformation of American Liberty | |
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Reconstruction And The Fourteenth Amendment | |
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Documents: Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment, 1866 | |
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The Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873 | |
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v. Illinois, 1873 | |
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v. Happersett, 1875 | |
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The Civil Rights Cases, 1883 | |
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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Essays: Akhil Reed Amar, Reconstruction and the Birth of the Bill of Rights | |
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Michael Les Benedict, The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction | |
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The Supreme Court's Denial of the Rights of Women | |
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Protective Legislation And The Liberty To Contract | |
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Documents: Legal Scholar | |
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Advocates a Limited Police Power, 1886 | |
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The People's Party Announces | |
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Its Agenda for Reform, 1896 | |
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v. New York, 1905 | |
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Reformers | |
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Document the Hardships Faced by Women Industrial Workers, 1908 | |
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v. Oregon, 1908 | |
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Legal Scholar Roscoe Pound | |
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Criticizes the Liberty to Contract, 1909 | |
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v. Children's Hospital, 1923 | |
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Essays: Paul Kens, The Lochner Court and Judicial Conservatism | |
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Julie Novkov, Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era | |
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Total War And The Emergence Of Modern Civil Liberties | |
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Documents: President | |
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Announces Regulations Governing Alien Enemies, 1917 | |
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The Espionage Act Restricts Speech in Wartime, 1917/1918 | |
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v. United States, 1919 | |
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Legal Scholar Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Advocates Freedom of Speech, 1919 | |
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v. United States, 1919 | |
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v. New York, 1925 | |
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Near v. Minnesota, 1931 | |
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Essays: David M. Rabban, Oliver Wendell | |
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Holmes and the Judicial Transformation of the First Amendment | |
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The Civil Liberties | |
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Bureau and the Origins of the Fight for Free Speech | |
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The Depression, And The New Deal | |
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Documents: The National Recovery Act | |
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Attempts to Bring the Nation Out of the Depression, 1933 | |
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act Provides | |
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Subsidies for Farmers, 1933 | |
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v. United States, 1935 | |
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United States v. Butler, 1936 | |
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Advocates Judicial Reform, 1937 | |
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National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1937 | |
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West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 1937 | |
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Essays: Jim Powell, The 'Four Horsemen' Were Right | |
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The New Deal Was Unconstitutional | |
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The New Deal Shows the Flexibility--and Genius--of the Constitution | |
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Race And Civil Rights | |
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In The Cold War Era | |
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Documents: Sweatt v. Painter, 1950 | |
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An Amicus Brief Filed by the U.S. Government | |
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Urges an End to Racial Segregation, 1953 | |
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Brown v. Board of Education, I, 1954 | |
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Brown v. Board of Education, II, 1955 | |
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White Southern Members of Congress Declare | |
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Their Opposition to Brown, 1956 | |
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The Civil Rights Act Forbids | |
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Discrimination in Public Education and Employment, 1964 | |
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Vows to Fight Injustice and Inequality, 1965 | |
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Essays: Derrick A. Bell, Brown Was Wrongly Decided | |
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Kermit L. Hall, Brown Furthered the Cause of Human Rights | |
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Abortion Rights | |
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The United States And South Africa Compared | |
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Documents: Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 | |
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A Proposed Constitutional Amendment Promises | |
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Equal Rights for Women, 1972 | |
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Fundamentalist Pastor | |
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Denounces the ERA, 1980 | |
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Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992 | |
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South Africa's Constitution Affirms Women's Rights, 1996 | |
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Christian Lawyer's Association of South | |
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Africa v. Minister of Health, 1998 | |
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Essays: John Hart Ely, Roe v. Wade Was a Mistake | |
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Roe Symbolized an Idea Whose Time Had Come | |
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Freedom Of And Freedom From Religion | |
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Documents: Engel v. Vitale, 1962 | |
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Comments on the School Prayer Decision, 1962 | |
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Lemon v. Kurtzman, 1971 | |
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Wallace v. Jaffree, 1985 | |
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Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 1990 | |
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Congress Overturns Smith in the Religious | |
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Freedom Restoration Act, 1993 | |
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Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 2002 | |
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Essays: Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause | |
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Erects a Wall of Separation | |
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The Establishment Clause Was Not | |
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Meant to Establish Public Secularism | |
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Federalism And Judicial | |
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Review Documents: Wickard v. Filburn, 1942 | |
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Senator Barry Goldwater Defends the Rights of the States, 1960 | |
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Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 1964 | |
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Congress Protects the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence, 1994 | |
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United States v. Lopez, 1995 | |
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Printz v. United States, 1997 | |
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United States v. Morrison, 2000 | |
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Essays: Steven G. Calabresi, In Defense of Federalism | |
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Catharine A. MacKinnon, Federalism and the Protection of Male Sovereignty | |
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Presidential Power From The Cold War | |
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To The War On Terror | |
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Documents: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952; | |
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Congress Gives Authority to President Lyndon B. Johnson to Wage War in Vietnam, 1964 | |
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Congress Reasserts Itself in the War Powers Resolution, 1973 | |
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United States v. Nixon, 1974 | |
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Congress Authorizes President | |
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International Terrorism, 2001 | |
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The Justice Department Asserts that Enforcement of Federal | |
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Anti-Torture Laws Would Violate the President's | |
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Powers as Commander-in-Chief, 2002 | |
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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2004 | |
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Essays: John Yoo, The President Possesses the Constitutional | |
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Power to Wage War on Terrorism | |
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Peter Irons, President Bush's War on Terrorism | |
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Has Hijacked the Constitution | |
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Appendix | |
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Constitution of the United States | |
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Justices of the United States Supreme Court | |