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This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation.
List of contents
Introduction: A Political Supreme Court
1 Jurisdiction and Organization of the Federal Courts
2 The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review
3 Congress and the President
4 Federalism
5 The Electoral Process
6 The Commerce Clause
7 National Taxing and Spending Power
8 Property Rights and the Development of Due Process
9 The Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment
10 Criminal Justice
11 Freedom of Expression
12 Religious Liberty
13 Privacy
14 Equal Protection of the Laws
15 Security and Freedom in Wartime and Pandemic
About the author
Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr. is Charles A. Dana Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Franklin and Marshall College where he taught from 1970 until 2017. Reared on a farm near Covington, Georgia, he is a graduate of Davidson College (1964) and received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1966 and 1967, respectively. Between 1968 and 1970 he was in the United States Army, completing his service at the rank of captain. He is author of
Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections (1999),
The Waite Court (2003), and
The Right to Vote (2004), and is coauthor of
American Constitutional Law (18th ed. 2022) and
Introduction to American Government (11th ed., 2021). He writes "The Judicial Bookshelf" for the
Journal of Supreme Court History.
Alpheus Thomas Mason (late) was McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University.
Summary
This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation.
