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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on the Editing of Cases and Documents | |
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| The Constitution of the United States of America | |
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| On the Nature and Structure of The National Government (1787-1793) | |
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| Excerpts from The Federalist | |
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| No. 1 | |
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| No. 39 | |
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| No. 47 | |
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| No. 48 | |
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| No. 51 | |
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| No. 78 | |
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| On the Extent of "Legislative Powers Herein Granted" | |
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| Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank | |
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| Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank | |
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| On the Nature of "the Executive Power" | |
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| Pacificus No. 1 | |
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| On the Power of Constitutional Interpretation and "Constitutional Review" (1798-1819) | |
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| The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the 'Report of 1800' | |
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| The Virginia Resolutions of 1798 | |
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| The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: Original Draft | |
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| Report on the Virginia Resolutions: House of Delegates, Session of 1799-1800 | |
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| Marbury v. Madison | |
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| Thomas Jefferson on the Executive Power of Constitutional Interpretation | |
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| Letter to Abigail Adams | |
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| Letter to Judge Spencer Roane | |
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| On the Powers of Government, the Rights of Individuals, and Federalism (1819-1833) | |
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| Bank of the United States Veto Message and Proclamation Concerning Nullification | |
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| Barron v. Baltimore | |
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| The Crisis: Slavery, Secession, and Civil War (1857-1866) | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford and Lincoln's Response | |
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| Speech on the Dred Scott Decision | |
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| Judah Benjamin's Speech in Congress | |
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| Lincoln's First Inaugural Address | |
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| Lincoln as Commander in Chief: Executive Military Orders | |
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| Letter to Winfield Scott | |
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| Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus | |
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| Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus Throughout the United States | |
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| Emancipation Proclamation | |
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| Order of Retaliation | |
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| Taney & Lincoln on The Suspension of Habeas Corpus | |
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| Ex parte Merryman | |
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| Special Message to Congress | |
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| The Constitutional Debate on the Emancipation Proclamation | |
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| Executive Power | |
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| Letter to James C. Conkling | |
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| The Prize Cases | |
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| Military Arrests, Detentions, and Trials During the Civil War | |
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| Letter to Erastus Corning and Others | |
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| Ex parte Milligan | |
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| The Reconstruction Amendments (1866-1883) | |
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| Speech Introducing the Proposed Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| The Slaughterhouse Cases | |
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| Bradwell v. Illinois and Minor v. Happersett | |
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| Strauder v. West Virginia | |
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| The Civil Rights Cases | |
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| From Reconstruction to the New Deal (1879-1919) | |
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| Reynolds v. United States | |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson | |
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| Lochner v. New York | |
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| Schenck v. United States and United States v. Debs | |
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| The New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War (1937-1952) | |
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| The New Deal "Revolution" | |
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| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish | |
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| National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel | |
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| United States v. Darby | |
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| Wickard v. Filburn | |
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| United States v. Carolene Products Co. | |
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| Minersville School District v. Gobitis and West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette | |
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| Ex parte Quirin and Korematsu v. United States | |
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| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer | |
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| The Modern Era (1954-2012) | |
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| Race and Sex | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education | |
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| Loving v. Virginia | |
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| Grutter v. Bollinger | |
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| Craig v. Boren | |
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| Equal Protection and Voting Rights | |
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| Baker v. Carr | |
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| Reynolds v. Sims | |
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| Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections | |
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| Bush v. Gore | |
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| The First Amendment | |
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| Cohen v. California | |
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| Brandenburg v. Ohio | |
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| United States v. O'Brien | |
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| Texas v. Johnson | |
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| The Pentagon Papers Case: New York Times Co. v. United States | |
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| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | |
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| Engel v. Vitale | |
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| Widmar v. Vincent | |
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| Employment Division v. Smith | |
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| The Second Amendment | |
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| McDonald v. City of Chicago | |
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| Criminal Law | |
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| Miranda v. Arizona | |
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| Modern Civil Rights Legislation | |
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| Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States | |
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| Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. | |
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| City of Boerne v. Flores | |
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| "Substantive Due Process" and "Privacy" Rights. | |
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| Griswold v. Connecticut | |
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| Roe v. Wade | |
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| Planned Parenthood v. Casey | |
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| Lawrence v. Texas | |
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| Presidential Autonomy and Authority | |
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| United States v. Nixon | |
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| Morrison v. Olson | |
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| War Powers | |
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| The War Powers Resolution of 1973 | |
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| Statement Vetoing the War Powers Resolution | |
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| Authorization for Use of Military Force | |
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| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld | |
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| Boumediene v. Bush | |
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| Federalism and Enumerated Powers | |
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| United States v. Lopez | |
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| National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius | |
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| Appendix A | |
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| The 101 Most Significant Supreme Court Interpretations of the Constitution | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |