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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Main Text
- Ch.1 Introduction: The Handbook of the United States Constitution
- Part I History
- Ch.2 The Constitution from 1620 to the Early Republic
- I Ideas and Experiences that Shaped the Constitution
- II The Diverse Colonies
- III From Colonies to States
- IV The Confederation and the Critical Period
- V The Politics of the Constitutional Convention
- VI The Design of the U.S. Constitution
- VII Ratification
- VIII The Bill of Rights
- IX The Constitution in the Early Republic
- X The Enduring Constitution
- Bibliography
- Ch.3 Constitutional Developments from Jackson through Reconstruction
- Ch.4 The Gilded Age through the Progressive Era
- Ch.5 From the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution
- Ch.6 The Reagan Revolution to the Present
- Ch.2 The Constitution from 1620 to the Early Republic
- Part II Political Science
- Ch.7 Constitutions as Basic Structure
- Ch.8 The Constitutional Politics of Congress
- Ch.9 The Constitutional Politics of the Executive Branch
- Ch.10 The Constitutional Politics of the Judiciary
- Ch.11 The Uneasy Place of Parties in the Constitutional Order
- Ch.12 Social Movements and the Constitution
- I Social Movements, Interest Groups, and Political Parties
- II Mechanisms of Influence
- III The Normative Dimension
- IV Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.13 The Administrative State: Law, Democracy, and Knowledge
- Ch.14 The Resilience of the American Federal System
- Ch.15 Empire
- Ch.16 The Evolution of America’s Fiscal Constitution
- I Founding Fathers Evoke British Constitutional Rights and Inherit Wartime Debt
- II Fiscal Issues Shape a New Constitution and Traditional Limits on Debt
- III Gallatin Refines the Traditional Fiscal Constitution
- IV Presidents Expand Budgetary Influence
- V Central Banking and Implied Powers
- VI The Civil War Gives Rise to New Monetary and Tax Policies
- VII Congress Obscures its Authorizations of Debt
- VII Noncontributory Social Insurance Challenges Congressional Control of Spending
- VIII The Traditional Fiscal Constitution Collapses
- IX The Problem With Limiting Debt by Constitutional Amendment
- Bibliography
- Part III Law
- Ch.17 The Executive Power
- I Understanding Executive Power: Methodological Considerations
- II The Central Problem and the Supreme Court’s Perspective
- III Shining the Lamp of Experience on War Powers and Foreign Affairs
- IV The Outer Limits of Executive Power: Non-Enforcement, Emergencies, and “Prerogative Power”
- V Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.18 Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment
- Ch.19 The Power of Judicial Review
- Ch.20 Delegation, Accommodation, and the Permeability of Constitutional and Ordinary Law
- Ch.21 Federalism
- Ch.17 The Executive Power
- Part IV Rights
- Ch.22 Equality
- I Equality in Early American History and The Emergence of Class Legislation as a Framework
- II The Post-Bellum Upheaval and Settlement of Equality
- III Women’s Equality and Transformation of the American State in the Early Twentieth Century
- IV Retrenchment and Transformation Around Race in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
- V The Flowering of Equal Protection Regarding Gender
- VI The Rise of Equality Jurisprudence with Respect to Sexual Orientation
- VII Poverty Jurisprudence and Jurisgenerative and Jurispathic Paths
- VIII Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.23 Liberty
- I Introduction
- II Incorporation
- III Substantive Due Process
- IV Three Competing Understandings of Liberty and Tradition in the Due Process Inquiry
- V The “Double Standard” Concerning Economic Liberties Versus Personal Liberties: “The Ghost of Lochner ”
- VI The Stringency of the Protection of Liberty Under the Due Process Clauses
- VII Criticisms of Constitutional Protection of Liberty
- VIII Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.24 Property in the United States Constitution
- I Conventionalism and Essentialism
- II Classical Laissez-Faire
- III The Critique of Laissez-Faire and the Rise of Regulatory Property
- IV Constitutional Property in the Age of Ecology
- V Redistribution and Development
- VI Normative Property Use and Federalism
- VII Federal Property and Federal Power
- VIII The Ambitions and Limits of Regulatory Property
- IX The Jurisprudence of Neoliberal Political Economy
- Bibliography
- Ch.25 Gender, Sex, and the U.S. Constitution
- Ch.26 Racial Rights
- Ch.27 Autonomy (of Individuals and Private Associations)
- I Personal Autonomy
- II The Fourteenth Amendment
- III The First Amendment—Freedom of Speech and Association
- IV The First Amendment— Freedom of Religion
- V The Second Amendment
- VI The Sixth Amendment
- VII Economic Autonomy
- VIII Waivers of Autonomy
- IX Conclusion
- Selected Annotated Bibliography: Personal/Individual Autonomy Under The U.S. Constitution
- Ch.28 Citizenship
- Ch.29 Religion
- Ch.30 Free Speech and Free Press
- I The Framing, Bill of Rights, and Early Doctrinal Developments
- II Initial Supreme Court Cases
- III World War I Cases
- IV Democracy and Free Expression Transformed
- V Free Expression as Constitutional Lodestar
- VI Doctrinal Wavering and Inconsistent Results
- VII Recent Developments: The “Haves” Come Out Ahead
- VIII A Coda on the Free Press
- Bibliography
- Ch.31 Criminal Procedure
- Ch.32 Habeas Corpus
- Ch.33 Native Americans
- Ch.34 Positive Rights
- I Distinguishing Positive Rights
- II Arguments That The U.S. Constitution Excludes Positive Rights
- III Contesting the Distinction Between Positive and Negative Rights
- IV Arguments that The U.S. Constitution Contains Positive Rights
- V The Supreme Court and Positive Rights
- VI Beyond Judicial Enforcement of the U.S. Constitution
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.35 The Right to Bear Arms
- I The Changing Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms in American History
- II The English Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
- III The Origins of the Second Amendment
- Iv Well Regulated: The Antebellum Right To Bear Arms
- V The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of A Federal Second Amendment Jurisprudence
- VI Gangster Weapons and the Rise and Fall of the Collective Rights Theory
- VII Gun Rights Versus Gun Control: The Contours of the Modern Debate Over the Right to Bear Arms
- VIII Sandy Hook, The Second Amendment, and the Future of Gun Regulation
- Bibliography
- Ch.22 Equality
- Part V Themes
- Ch.36 Constitutionalism
- Ch.37 Emergency Powers
- Ch.38 Constitutional Authority
- Ch.39 Is Constitutional Law Really Law?
- Ch.40 Constitutionalism Outside the Courts
- Ch.41 State Constitutionalism
- Ch.42 Interpretation
- Ch.43 Constitutional Change
- Ch.44 The U.S. Constitution and International Law
- I Constitutional Founding and Text
- II Treaty Law and Other International Agreements
- III Customary International Law: Jurisdiction, Supremacy, and Interpretation
- IV Interpretation More Generally
- Arguments from the Purpose of Constitutions:
- Arguments from Interpretive Practice: The Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clauses:
- Arguments from text:
- Arguments from Rule of Law/Coherence:
- Arguments from Constitutionalism:
- Arguments from Epistemic Humility:
- Originalist, Contractiaran Understandings of Constitutional Legitimacy:
- Constitutionalism and Democratic Consent.
- Coherence of Law with Culture.
- Balance in a Federal System:
- IV Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.45 The Constitution in Comparative Perspective
- Ch.46 Education and the Constitution: Defining the Contours of Governance, Rights, and Citizenship
- I Introduction
- II Education and Constitutional Development: Four Waves of Change in Federalism and National Power
- 1 First Wave Developments of the Eighteenth Century Era: Debating the Role of Education in a Republic
- 2 Second Wave Developments of the Nineteenth Century: The “Educational Reconstruction”
- 3 Third Wave Developments in the Twentieth Century: War and Social Upheaval as Impetuses for Educational Opportunity
- 4 Emerging Fourth Wave Developments in the Twenty-First Century: Debates over Educational Quality, Choice, and Standards
- II The Court Enters the Thicket: Education Cases and Controversies over Fundamental Rights and Civil Liberties
- III Equal Protection and Equal Opportunity in Education Contexts
- IV The Constitution and Civic Education: “Constitutional Education” in the Conventional Classroom and Beyond
- V Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.47 The Economics of Constitutional Law
- I Introduction
- II Structural Constitutionalism and the Incentives for Political Engagement
- III Substantive Constitutional Doctrines that Promote Political Engagement: the Commerce Clause; Equal Protection Scrutiny; and due Process
- IV Agency-Deference Rules, Rent-Seeking, and National Political Engagement
- V Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Ch.48 The Constitution and United States’ Culture
- Further Material