Research Catalog

Title

Constitutional law for a changing America : rights, liberties, and justice / Lee Epstein, Thomas G. Walker.

Author

Epstein, Lee, 1958-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walker, Thomas G.
• Walker, Thomas G., 1945-

Description

xix, 860 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

Exploring the full range of civil rights and liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice has been updated throughout to include Supreme Court decisions handed down through June 2000 and to take into account recent events in the legal and political environment. New to this edition are a chapter on the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms, boxes that compare and contrast the U.S. legal system with systems abroad, and "Aftermath" sidebars that revisit well-known litigants for a glimpse of how their cases affected their lives.

Subject

• Civil rights > United States > Cases
• Constitutional law > United States > Cases

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Supreme Court and the Constitution -- The Living Constitution -- The Road to the Bill of Rights -- The Amendment Process -- The Supreme Court and the Amendment Process -- Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court -- Processing Supreme Court Cases -- Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Legally Relevant Approaches -- Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Extralegal Approaches -- Conducting Research on the Supreme Court -- The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints -- Judicial Review -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Constraints on Judicial Power -- Ex parte McCardle (1869) -- Incorporation of the Bill of Rights -- Must States Abide by the Bill of Rights? Initial Responses -- Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Incorporation Through the Fourteenth Amendment: Early Interpretations -- Hurtado v. California (1884) -- A Standard Emerges -- Palko v. Connecticut (1937) -- Incorporation in the Aftermath of Palko -- Duncan v. Louisiana (1968) -- Civil Liberties -- Approaching Civil Liberties -- Religion: Exercise and Establishment -- Defining Religion -- Free Exercise of Religion -- Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) -- Sherbert v. Verner (1963) -- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) -- Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) -- City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) -- Religious Establishment -- Everson v. Board of Education (1947) -- Lemon v. Kurtzman; Earley v. DiCenso (1971) -- Agostini v. Felton (1997) -- Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) -- School District of Abington Township v. Schempp (1963) -- Lee v. Weisman (1992).

ISBN

1568025424 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00010997^

OCLC

44876820

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library