Volume I:

Chapter 1: Interpretation of the Constitution
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Chapter 2: Constitutional Adjudication
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Chapter 3: The Judicial Power
1. The Power of Judicial Review
  1. Letter from Supreme Court Justices to President George Washington (1793)
  2. Calder v. Bull (1798)
  3. Stuart v. Laird (1803)
  4. President Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto Message (1832)
  5. Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
  6. Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils (1987)
  7. Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. (1995)
2. Externally Imposed Restraints on Judicial Review (No online content)
3. Court-Imposed Restraints on Judicial Review
  1. Frothingham v. Mellon (1923)
  2. Baker v. Carr (1962)
  3. Flast v. Cohen (1968)
  4. Allen v. Wright (1984)
  5. U.S. Department of Commerce v. Montana (1992)
  6. Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation (2007)
4. The Expanding Role of the Court (No online content)
5. The Courts, Judicial Review, and the Problem of Legitimacy (No online content)
Chapter 4: The Legislative Branch
1. The Scope of Congressional Power
  1. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Opinions on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (1791)
  2. United States v. Comstock (2010)
2. Powers That Facilitate Legislative Activity (No online content)
3. Nonlegislative Powers (No online content)
4. Safeguarding Legislative Powers
  1. Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
  2. Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
Chapter 5: The Executive Branch
1. The Aims of the Framers (No online content)
2. Immunity
  1. Clinton v. Jones (1997)
3. Privilege (No online content)
4. Control of Executive Branch Officers (No online content)
5. Prerogative Powers
  1. Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
  2. Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981)
6. Impeachment and Removal
  1. Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1998)
Chapter 6: War and Foreign Affairs
1. The Foreign-Affairs Powers
  1. Pacificus-Helvidius Debate (1793-94)
  2. Perpich v. Department of Defense (1990)
2. War
  1. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
  2. Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001)
3. War and Individual Rights
4. Immigration (No online content)
Chapter 7: Federalism
1. Federalism and the Founding (No online content)
2. Federalism and the First Congress (No online content)
3. Federalism and the Marshall Court (No online content)
4. Federalism and Its Protection by Subsequent Courts (No online content)
  1. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
  2. Younger v. Harris (1971)
  3. National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
  4. New York v. United States (1992)
  5. Tennessee v. Lane (2004)
5. The Post-Civil War Amendment and the Shifting of the Federal Balance
  1. Patterson v. McLean Credit Union (1989)
6. Federalism, Voting, and Elections
  1. Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
  2. Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004)
Chapter 8: The Exercise of National Power
1. The Commerce Power
  1. United States v. E.C. Knight Company (1895)
  2. United States v. Lopez (1995)
2. The Taxing and Spending Powers
  1. United States v. Kahriger (1953)
3. Limitations on National Power (No online content)
Chapter 9: The Exercise of State Power
1. Constitutional Principles (No online content)
2. Preemption
  1. Goldstein v. California (1973)
  2. Pacific Gas & Electric Company v. State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (1983)
3. Negative Implications of the Commerce Clause
  1. Dean Milk Company v. City of Madison (1951)
4. State Regulation and the Modern Court
  1. Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison (1997)
  2. Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne (2015)
5. The Role of the Court (No online content)
Chapter 10: The Constitution and Native American Tribes
1. Native American Tribes and the New Republic (No online content)
2. Tribal Sovereignty and the Marshall Trilogy (No online content)
3. Tribal Self-Determination (No online content)
4. Tribal Authority Over Disposition of Lands (No online content)
5. Tribal Authority to Institute a Government (No online content)
6. Tribal Authority to Enter into Treaties (No online content)
7. Tribal Authority to Administer Justice
  1. Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company (2008)
  2. Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (2022)
8. Tribal Authority to Engage in “Indian Gaming”
  1. Carcieri v. Salazar (2009)
Chapter 11: The Contract Clause
1. Marshall’s Expansion of the Contract Clause
  1. Vanhorne’s Lessee v. Dorrance (1795)
2. The Decline of the Contract Clause (No online content)
3. A Continued Relevance
  1. Flushing National Bank v. Municipal Assistance Corporation (1976)
  2. Buffalo Teachers Federation v. Tobe (2006)
  3. Taylor v. City of Gadsden (2013)
Chapter 12: Economic Due Process and the Takings Clause
1. The Fourteenth Amendment (No online content)
2. The Evisceration (and Possible Recent Restoration?) of the Privileges or Immunities Clause
  1. Saenz v. Roe (1999)
3. Economic Regulation and the Rise of Substantive Due Process
  1. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
4. The Demise of Substantive Due Process in the Economic Realm
  1. TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. (1993)
5. The Emergence of Substantive Due Process in the Civil Liberties Realm (No online content)
6. What is a Taking?
  1. Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994)
  2. Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002)
  3. Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District (2013)
  4. Horne v. Department of Agriculture (2015)
  5. Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California (2024)
7. What is a Public Purpose? (No online content)