Reflections on constitutional law / George Anastaplo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anastaplo, George, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Constitutional law--United States--Cases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a trend that disturbs nationally known constitutional scholar George Anastaplo, law schools now place very little emphasis on the study of the United States Constitution as a document. Today, many constitutional law professors spend less than a week teaching the history, philosophical tenets, and legal origins of the Constitution itself and more time on Supreme Court cases. In Reflections on Constitutional Law, Anastaplo emphasizes the continuing significance and importance of the Constitution by examining the most important influences on the American constitutional system, including the

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 (1905-1981)

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 (1872) : 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?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613232595

9780813137292

0813137292

9781283232593

1283232596

9780813171340

0813171342

OCLC:

70262613