Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: CONSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND -- THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES -- CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION -- PROVISIONS -- CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS -- THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT -- THE CONSTITUTION AS A LIVING DOCUMENT -- SEPARATION OF POWERS AND CHECKS AND BALANCES -- SEPARATION OF POWERS -- CHECKS AND BALANCES -- THE FEDERALIST PAPERS -- FEDERAL VERSUS STATE POWER: STATES' RIGHTS AND NULLIFICATION -- STATES' RIGHTS -- NULLIFICATION -- FEDERAL SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT -- WRITTEN CONSTITUTION -- NONCENTRALIZATION -- A REAL DIVISION OF POWER -- ELEMENTS MAINTAINING UNION -- ELEMENTS MAINTAINING THE FEDERAL PRINCIPLE -- Chapter 2: THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERMENT -- THE JUDICIARY IN PERSPECTIVE -- JUDICIAL LEGITIMACY -- COURTS IN THE COMMON-LAW TRADITION -- FUNCTIONS OF COURTS -- KEEPING THE PEACE -- DECIDING DISPUTES -- JUDICIAL LAWMAKING -- CONSTITUTIONAL DECISIONS -- PROCEDURAL RULE MAKING -- REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS -- ENFORCEMENT OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS -- TYPES OF COURTS -- CRIMINAL COURTS -- CIVIL COURTS -- COURTS OF GENERAL JURISDICTION -- COURTS OF LIMITED JURISDICTION -- APPELLATE COURTS -- JUDGES -- Chapter 3: JUDICIAL REVIEW -- VARIETIES OF JUDICIAL REVIEW -- JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE UNITED STATES -- APPLICATIONS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW -- Chapter 4: COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES -- THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES -- SCOPE AND JURISDICTION -- SIZE, MEMBERSHIP, AND ORGANIZATION -- PROCEDURES AND POWER -- HISTORICAL TRENDS -- APPELLATE COURTS -- DISTRICT COURTS -- Chapter 5: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE FEDERAL COURT -- SLAVERY -- POLITICAL BACKGROUND: SECTIONAL CONFLICT OF THE 1840S AND '50S -- THE DRED SCOTT DECISION -- SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION -- RACIAL SEGREGATION -- JIM CROW LAWS -- "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL": PLESSY V. FERGUSON.

EQUAL PROTECTION COMES OF AGE -- CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION OF THE 1960S -- BUSING -- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- Chapter 6: ISSUES AND CASES IN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY -- DUE PROCESS -- THE MEANING OF DUE PROCESS -- THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE CASES -- FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS -- THE PENTAGON PAPERS AND THE PROGRESSIVE -- HABEAS CORPUS -- HISTORY OF HABEAS CORPUS -- OBSCENITY -- THE LEGAL CONCEPT OF OBSCENITY -- PRIVACY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS -- RIGHTS OF PRIVACY -- ABORTION -- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE -- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE LAW -- THE COMPLEXITY OF THE DEBATE -- SELF-INCRIMINATION -- THE CONCEPT OF SELF-INCRIMINATION -- SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE -- THE CONCEPT OF CHURCH AND STATE -- Chapter 7: JUSTICES AND JURISTS -- THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT -- JOHN ROBERTS, JR. -- JOHN PAUL STEVENS -- ANTONIN SCALIA -- ANTHONY KENNEDY -- CLARENCE THOMAS -- RUTH BADER GINSBURG -- STEPHEN BREYER -- SAMUEL A. ALITO, JR. -- SONIA SOTOMAYOR -- PAST CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT -- JOHN JAY -- JOHN RUTLEDGE -- OLIVER ELLSWORTH -- JOHN MARSHALL -- ROGER TANEY -- MORRISON REMICK WAITE -- MELVILLE WESTON FULLER -- EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE -- WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT -- CHARLES EVANS HUGHES -- HARLAN FISKE STONE -- FRED MOORE VINSON -- EARL WARREN -- WARREN EARL BURGER -- WILLIAM REHNQUIST -- NOTABLE PAST JUSTICES AND JURISTS -- SAMUEL CHASE -- WILLIAM JOHNSON -- JOSEPH STORY -- JOHN MCLEAN -- SAMUEL MILLER -- STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD -- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. -- LOUIS BRANDEIS -- JOHN HESSIN CLARKE -- OWEN JOSEPHUS ROBERTS -- BENJAMIN CARDOZO -- LEARNED HAND -- HUGO LA FAYETTE BLACK -- FELIX FRANKFURTER -- WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS -- JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN -- WILLIAM BRENNAN, JR. -- THURGOOD MARSHALL -- HARRY BLACKMUN -- LEWIS POWELL, JR. -- SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR -- DAVID SOUTER -- Appendix: Table of Supreme Court Justices -- Glossary -- For Further Reading -- Index.

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