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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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| <l>3</l> | |
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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 | |