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Reflections on constitutional law /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anastaplo, George, 1925-2014
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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?