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The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare, gay marriage, and the First Amendment.
List of contents
Preface to the Seventeenth Edition
Acknowledgments
This Is Our Supreme Court
Chapter 1: Article I: The Legislative Branch
Powers
Commerce
Delegation of Powers
Implied Powers
Taxing/Spending and Regulatory Powers
Privileges and Terms of Members
Chapter 2: Article II: The Executive Branch
Powers
Privileges and Limitations
Chapter 3: Articles I and II: Distinct Yet Overlapping Powers
Separation of Powers Issues
Treaties and Executive Agreements
War-Making Powers
Chapter 4: Article III: The Judicial Branch
Judicial Jurisdiction and Standing
Political Questions Doctrine
Chapter 5: Articles IV and VI: Federalism
Eleventh Amendment and Sovereign Immunity of States
Federal Preemption
Judicial Jurisdiction over States
Limits on the States
Limits on Federal Regulation of States
Status of the States
Tenth Amendment and State Police Powers
Chapter 6: Articles V and VII: Constitutional Amending Process and Ratification of the Constitution
The Amending Process
Chapter 7: Property Rights
Contract Clause (Article 1, Section 10)
Due Process (Economic) and Freedom of Contract (Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments)
Takings Clause (Fifth Amendment)
Chapter 8: The Bill of Rights and Its Application to the States
Incorporation
Chapter 9: First Amendment: Religious Rights
Establishment Clause
Free Exercise Clause
Chapter 10: First Amendment: Political Rights
Association [Implied], Assembly, and Petition
Press
Speech
Campaign-Related
Commercial Speech
Miscellaneous
Obscenity
Subversive Speech
Symbolic Speech or Speech and Conduct
Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions on Speech
Chapter 11: Second, Third, and Fourth Amendments
The Right to Bear Arms
Electronic Surveillance
Other Search and Seizure
Chapter 12: Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments
Double Jeopardy and Right to Confrontation
Due Process
Juries
Right to Counsel
Self-Incrimination and Immunity
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Chapter 13: Ninth Amendment: Right to Privacy, and
Other Unenumerated Rights
Parental and Marital Rights
Right to Travel
Right to Die
Abortion Rights
LGBTQ Rights
Chapter 14: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Enforcement Powers
Enforcement Powers
Equal Protection and Privileges and Immunities
African Americans and Racial Classifications
Protection, Privileges, and Immunities
Aliens
Sexual Classifications
Various Other Classifications
Chapter 15: Voting Rights
Voting Rights
Members of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-2013
The Constitution of the United States
Glossary of Legal Terms
Alphabetical List of Cases Briefed
Chronological List of Cases by Chief Justice
Index
About the Author
About the author
JOHN R. VILE (Ph.D., UVA) is Dean of the Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Declaration of Independence: America's First Founding Document in U.S. History and Culture (2019), The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding (2016), The Wisest Council in the World: Restoring the Character Sketches by William Pierce of Georgia of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 (2015), and numerous books on the U.S. Constitution.
Summary
The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare, gay marriage, and the First Amendment.
