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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 | |