Reflections on constitutional law
George Anastaplo (Author)
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 Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. According to Anastaplo, a rigorous understanding of the Constitution is crucial to comprehending the true meaning of Supreme Court decisions
eBook, English, 2006
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 2006
Trials, litigation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages)
9780813171340, 0813171342
961610557
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 volume Madison (1803)
Swift volume Tyson (1842) ; Erie Railroad Company volume Tompkins (1938)
Martin volume Hunter's Lessee (1816) ; M'culloch volume Maryland (1819)
Gibbons volume Ogden (1824)
Burdens on interstate commerce (1905-1981)
Missouri volume Holland (1920) ; Wickard volume 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 volume Bull (1798) ; Barron volume Baltimore (1833)
Corfield volume Coryell (1823) and the privileges and immunities puzzles
The slaughter-house cases (1872) : a false start?
The civil rights cases (1883) ; Plessey volume Ferguson (1896) : more false starts?
Shelley volume Kraemer (1948) ; Brown volume Board of Education (1954, 1955)
Affirmative action and the Fourteenth Amendment
San Antonio Independent School District volume Rodriguez (1973)
Whose votes count for what
and when?