Reflections on constitutional law /
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to constitutionalism
- Magna Carta (1215)
- The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- The Articles of Confederation (1776-1789); the Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Emergence of the constitution (1786-1791)
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Swift v. Tyson (1842); Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins (1938)
- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816); M'culloch v. Maryland (1819)
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- Burdens on interstate commerce (19051981)
- Missouri v. Holland (1920); Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
- The presidency and the constitution
- A government of enumerated powers?
- Realism and the study of constitutional law
- The challenges of skepticism for the constitutionalist
- Constitutionalism and the common law: the Erie problem reconsidered
- The Confederate Constitution (1861-1865)
- The Japanese relocation cases (1943,1944)
- Calder v. Bull (1798); Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
- Corfield v. Coryell (1823) and the privileges and immunities puzzles
- The slaughter-house cases (1873): a false start?
- The civil rights cases (1883); Plessey v. Ferguson (1896): more false starts?
- Shelley v. Kraemer (1948); Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955)
- Affirmative action and the Fourteenth Amendment
- San Antonio independent school district v. Rodriguez (1973)
- Whose votes count for what and when?