American Constitutional Law

Introductory Essays and Selected Cases
19th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-032-75169-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 830 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1637 g

This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, the book endeavors to heighten students’ understanding of this critical part of the American political system.

NEW TO THE 19th EDITION

• An account of the recent Supreme Court transitions, including the Biden Court commission, the appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the heightened political and ethical difficulties facing the Court.

• Five new cases carefully edited and excerpted, including Minor v. Happersett (1875) on gender and voting rights, Trump v. Anderson (2024) on access to the ballot, Carson v. Makin (2022) on religious freedom, New York Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen (2023) on Second Amendment rights, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2023) on abortion rights, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, together with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina on affirmative action.

• Twenty-one new cases discussed in chapter essays.

• Tips on reading a Supreme Court decision remains as a box in Chapter One.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephenson Jr, Donald Grier

Mason, Alpheus Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Political Supreme Court

1 Jurisdiction and Organization of the Federal Courts

2 The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review

3 Congress and the President

4 Federalism

5 The Electoral Process

6 The Commerce Clause

7 National Taxing and Spending Power

8 Property Rights and the Development of Due Process

9 The Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment

10 Criminal Justice

11 Freedom of Expression

12 Religious Liberty

13 Privacy

14 Equal Protection of the Laws

15 Security and Freedom in Wartime and Pandemic

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr. is Charles A. Dana Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Franklin and Marshall College where he taught from 1970 until 2017. Reared on a farm near Covington, Georgia, he is a graduate of Davidson College (1964) and received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1966 and 1967, respectively. Between 1968 and 1970 he was in the United States Army, completing his service at the rank of captain. He is author of Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections (1999), The Waite Court (2003), and The Right to Vote (2004), and is coauthor of American Constitutional Law (18th ed. 2022) and Introduction to American Government (11th ed., 2021). He writes “The Judicial Bookshelf” for the Journal of Supreme Court History.

Alpheus Thomas Mason (late) was McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University.