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English Origins of American Constitutionalism | |
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The Magna Carta (1215) | |
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The Declaration of Rights (1689) | |
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John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690) | |
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Colonial Origins of American Constitutionalism | |
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Charter of the Massachusettes Bay Company (1629) | |
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Mayflower Compact (1620) | |
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The American Revolution | |
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Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) | |
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The Declaratory Act (1766) | |
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Resolutions of the First Continental Congress (1774) | |
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The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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Establishing New State and Federal Constitutions | |
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) | |
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The Articles of Confederation (1781) | |
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The Virginia and New Jersey Plans (1787) | |
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The Federalist Papers (1788) | |
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Constitutional Issues in the Early Republic | |
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Thomas Jefferson, Opinion Against the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) | |
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Alexander Hamilton, Opinion Sustaining the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1790) | |
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The Kentucky Resolutions (1798, 1799) | |
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Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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Judicial Review, Nationalism, and State Sovereignty | |
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Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) | |
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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | |
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Cohens v. Virginia (1821) | |
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Barron v. Baltmore (1833) | |
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Jacksonian Democracy and State Rights | |
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Blackstone on the Rights of Married Women (1775) | |
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The Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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Andrew Jackson, Veto of the National Bank Bill (1832) | |
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John C. Calhoun on State Sovereignty (1828, 1831) | |
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Daniel Webster, Reply to Hayne (1830) | |
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The Nullification Crisis (18321833) | |
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Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) | |
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Swift v. Tyson (1842) | |
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Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia (1852) | |
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Slavery and the Constitution | |
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John C. Calhoun, Resolutions on State Sovereignty and Slavery (1837) | |
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Virginia Sedition Laws (1860) | |
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The Fugitive Slave Act (1850) | |
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The Antislavery Planks of the Republican National Platform (1856) | |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) | |
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South Carolina Secedes from the Union (1860) | |
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Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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The Constitution and the Civil War | |
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Lincoln and Taney Clash over Presidential Power and Habeas Corpus (1861) | |
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Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | |
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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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Reconstruction and the Constitution | |
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Andrew Johnson Vetoes the Civil Rigths Act of 1866 (1866) | |
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The Reconstruction Act (1867) | |
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Articles of Impeachment (1868) | |
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Texas v. White (1869) | |
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The Slaughter-House Cases (1873) | |
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Joseph P. Bradley, Concurring Opinion in Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) | |
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The Civil Rights Cases (1883) | |
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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The Industrial State, Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism, and State Rights | |
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Munn v. Illinois (1877) | |
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John F. Dillon, Presidential Address to the American Bar Association (1892) | |
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minnesota (1890) | |
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U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895) | |
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Holden v. Hardy (1898) | |
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Lochner v. New York (1905) | |
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The Progressive Era | |
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Theodore Roosevelt on the Presidency (1913) | |
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The Lottery Case (1903) | |
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Muller v. Oregon (1908) | |
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Hoke v. U.S. (1913) | |
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Schenck v. U.S. (1919) | |
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Abrams v. U.S. (1919) | |
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Liberal versus Conservative Constitutionalism in the 1920s | |
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) | |
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The Child Labor Cases (1918, 1922) | |
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The New Deal and the Constitution | |
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U.S. v. Butler | |
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Carter | |