Our constitution : landmark interpretations of America's governing document / edited by Michael Stokes Paulsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paulsen, Michael Stokes.

Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : Federalist Society, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our Constitution is a straightforward and objective volume setting forth the text of the Constitution of the United States and the most important interpretations of that document by the U.S. Supreme Court and by other actors in our constitutional system. It focuses on the most important interpretations of the Constitution -- those that have shaped our understandings of the Constitution and been of greatest historical consequence and enduring significance for the nation. The emphasis is on what has proven to be foundational, historic, or enduring, not on right and wrong. This is not a work of c

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Editing of Cases and Documents; The Constitution of the United States of America; ON THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT (1787-1793); Excerpts from the Federalist; No. 1; No. 39; No. 47; No. 48; No. 51; No. 78; On the Extent of "Legislative Powers Herein Granted"; Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank; Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank; On the Nature of "the Executive Power"; Pacificus No. 1; ON THE POWER OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION AND "CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW" (1798-1819)

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the 'Report of 1800'The Virginia Resolutions of 1798; The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: Original Draft; Report on the Virginia Resolutions: House of Delegates, Session of 1799-1800; Marbury v. Madison; Thomas Jefferson on the Executive Power of Constitutional Interpretation; Letter to Abigail Adams; Letter to Judge Spencer Roane; ON THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT, THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS, AND FEDERALISM (1819-1833); McCulloch v. Maryland; Bank of the United States Veto Message and Proclamation Concerning Nullification; Barron v. Baltimore

THE CRISIS: SLAVERY, SECESSION, AND CIVIL WAR (1857-1866)Dred Scott v. Sandford and Lincoln's Response; Dred Scott v. Sandford; Speech on the Dred Scott Decision; Judah Benjamin's Speech in Congress; Lincoln's First Inaugural Address; Lincoln as Commander in Chief: Executive Military Orders; Letter to Winfield Scott; Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus; Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus Throughout the United States; Emancipation Proclamation; Order of Retaliation; Taney & Lincoln on The Suspension of Habeas Corpus; Ex parte Merryman; Special Message to Congress

The Constitutional Debate on the Emancipation ProclamationExecutive Power; Letter to James C. Conkling; The Prize Cases; Military Arrests, Detentions, and Trials During the Civil War; Letter to Erastus Corning and Others; Ex parte Milligan; THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS (1866-1883); Speech Introducing the Proposed Fourteenth Amendment; The Slaughterhouse Cases; Bradwell v. Illinois and Minor v. Happersett; Strauder v. West Virginia; The Civil Rights Cases; FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE NEW DEAL (1879-1919); Reynolds v. United States; Plessy v. Ferguson; Lochner v. New York

Schenck v. United States and United States v. DebsTHE NEW DEAL, WORLD WAR II, AND THE COLD WAR (1937-1952); The New Deal "Revolution"; West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish; National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel; United States v. Darby; Wickard v. Filburn; United States v. Carolene Products Co.; Minersville School District v. Gobitis and West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette; Ex parte Quirin and Korematsu v. United States; Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer; THE MODERN ERA (1954-2012); Race and Sex; Brown v. Board of Education; Loving v. Virginia

Grutter v. Bollinger

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-9857215-2-9

OCLC:

829460275