With Liberty and Justice for All? - The Constitution in the Classroom

With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom will be of interest to anyone--whether teacher, student, or citizen--interested in a better appreciation of how constitutional disputes have influenced the course of US history. With a foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this book combines penetrating essays by constitutional scholars with a wealth of supporting primary source documents and discussion topics. It reveals how controversies over the US Constitution--debates over its intentions and interpretations; disagreements about both its soaring ideals and tragic flaws--have fundamentally shaped the nation's story.

Sommario

• Foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg


• Introduction


• About the Companion Website


• Contributors


• Chapter 1: The Foundations of Constitutional History


• Essay: Shaping the Constitution


• Linda Greenhouse


• Sources:


• Five Questions about the Constitution


• Judicial Review


• Interpreting the Constitution


• Chapter 2: The Founding (1776 - 1791)


• Essay: The Age of the Constitution


• Mary Sarah Bilder


• Sources:


• Constitutional Provisions Regarding Slavery


• A Bill of Rights?


• Chapter 3: The New Constitution in the New Nation (1789 - 1848)


• Essay: Creating "We the People"


• Annette Gordon-Reed


• Sources:


• Slavery, Race, and the States


• Native American Policy


• Chapter 4: The Constitution in Crisis (1848 - 1877)


• Essay: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Constitutional Revolution


• Eric Foner


• Sources:


• Fugitive Slave Act


• Dred Scott


• Interpretation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments


• Chapter 5: The Constitution at Home and Abroad (1877 - 1917)


• Essay: From the Reconstruction Constitution to Empire


• Sam Erman


• Sources:


• The Chinese Exclusion Act (and the Anarchist Exclusion Act)


• Territories


• Chapter 6: The Constitution during War and Peace (1917 - 1945)


• Essay: Democracy at Home: Prohibition, War, and Women's Suffrage


• Julie Suk


• Sources:


• The Nineteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment


• Confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II


• Chapter 7: The Constitution in the Postwar World (1945 - 1974)


• Essay: The Warren Court and Constitutional Liberalism


• Laura Kalman


• Sources:


• McCarthyism


• Civil Rights - School Desegregation


• Civil Rights - Public Accommodations


• Chapter 8: Constitutionalism in Contemporary America


• Essay: The Rights Revolution and the Modern Supreme Court


• Melissa Murray


• Sources:


• Privacy and Abortion


• Women's Rights


• Same-Sex Relationships


• Appendix 1: Debating the Constitution


• Appendix 2: Other Ideas for Teaching Constitutional History


• Further Reading


• Websites


• Acknowledgments


• Index

Info autore

Steven A. Steinbach teaches United States History and American Government courses and has served as history department chair at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Previously he was a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP, where he specialized in criminal and civil litigation.

Maeva Marcus, a past president of the American Society for Legal History, is Research Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Constitutional Studies at the George Washington University Law School. She serves as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Author of Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, she also edited the eight-volume series The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800.

Robert Cohen, professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at New York University, has written or edited more than a dozen books about United States history, including Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond. He is co-founder of the NYU-Steinhardt-NYU School of Law Constitution in the Schools Partnership program.

Riassunto

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history

With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom is designed to help teachers and students generate analysis and debate in our nation's classrooms about an aspect of US history that has produced intense disagreements about rights and wrongs: constitutional history. For more than two centuries, Americans have argued about what the US Constitution permits or requires (or not), and what values and ideals it enshrines (or not)--indeed, who is to be included (or not) in the very definition of "We the People."

This book provides abundant resources to explore key moments of debate about the Constitution and its meaning, focusing on fundamental questions of citizenship and rights. It analyzes American history through the use and misuse of the Constitution over time, from early disputes about liberty and slavery to more recent quarrels over equality and dignity. With a foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this book's succinct and probing essays by prize-winning historians--including Linda Greenhouse, Mary Sarah Bilder, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eric Foner, Sam Erman, Julie Suk, Laura Kalman, and Melissa Murray--provide the core of the book. Their topics encompass woman suffrage, school desegregation, Japanese internment, McCarthyism, all dramatic turning points in American history. Carefully selected and annotated primary sources and focused discussion questions provide teachers with the tools to bring constitutional history into the classroom with ease.

As this book amply demonstrates, United States history is constitutional history. A companion website provides additional resources for teachers.

Testo aggiuntivo

Steinbach '81, Marcus, and Cohen urge students and teachers to wrestle with the constitutional questions that animate U.S. history. The volume's eight chapters examine the Constitution's "use and misuse" at watershed moments, interweaving analysis by historians with primary sources. Rather than adopting any one view, With Liberty and Justice for All? shows the Constitution to be contested.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Steven A. (History Department Chair Steinbach
• Con la collaborazione di: Robert Cohen (Editore), Cohen Robert (Editore), Maeva Marcus (Editore), Marcus Maeva (Editore), Steven A. Steinbach (Editore), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Prefazione)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.08.2022
• EAN: 9780197516300
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751630-0
• Pagine: 464
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; USA, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / General, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law