American Constitutional Law provides a comprehensive account of the nations defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, this text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish.

Table of Contents

• About the Authors
• PREFACE
• NOTE TO THE READER
• 1 INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
• 2 CONSTITUTIONAL ADJUDICATION
• 3 THE JUDICIAL POWER
• CASES ON THE JUDICIAL POWER
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Stuart v. Laird (1803)
• Eakin v. Raub (1825)
• Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
• Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. (1995)
• Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton (1987)
• Ex parte McCardle (1869)
• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992)
• Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation (2007)
• Luther v. Borden (1849)
• Baker v. Carr (1962)
• Nixon v. United States (1993)
• Deshaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989)
• 4 THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
• CASES ON THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Powell v. McCormack (1969)
• U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
• Gravel v. United States (1972)
• McGrain v. Daugherty (1927)
• Watkins v. United States (1957)
• Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1998)
• Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
• Mistretta v. United States (1989)
• Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
• 5 THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
• CASES ON THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
• Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
• Myers v. United States (1926)
• Morrison v. Olson (1988)
• United States v. Nixon (1974)
• Clinton v. Jones (1997)
• In re Neagle (1890)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer (1952)
• 6 WAR AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• CASES ON WAR AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• The Prize Cases (1863)
• The War Powers Resolution (1973)
• Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001)
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936)
• Missouri v. Holland (1920)
• Medellin v. Texas (2008)
• Ex parte Milligan (1866)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Ex parte Quirin (1942)
• The USA PATRIOT Act (2001)
• Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism (2001)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
• Boumediene v. Bush (2008)
• Letter on Wiretapping by the National Security Agency (2005)
• Congressional Research Service Memorandum (2006)
• 7 FEDERALISM
• CASES ON FEDERALISM
• The Judiciary Act of 1789
• Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
• Coyle v. Smith (1911)
• Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission (1978)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• New York v. United States (1992)
• Printz v. United States (1997)
• Alden v. Maine (1999)
• Tennessee v. Lane (2004)
• The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Company (1968)
• 8 THE EXERCISE OF NATIONAL POWER
• CASES ON EXERCISE OF NATIONAL POWER
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
• Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
• Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
• United States v. Butler (1936)
• United States v. Kahriger (1953)
• South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
• National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)
• 9 THE EXERCISE OF STATE POWER
• CASES ON EXERCISE OF STATE POWER
• Arizona v. United States (2012)
• Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)
• Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona (1945)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison (1997)
• Granholm v. Heald (2005)
• 10 THE CONSTITUTION AND NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES
• CASES ON THE CONSTITUTION AND NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
• Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
• United States v. Kagama (1886)
• Johnson v. McIntosh (1823)
• Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
• Public Law 280 (1953)
• United States v. Lara (2004)
• Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company (2008)
• California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987)
• Carcieri v. Salazar (2009)
• 11 THE CONTRACT CLAUSE
• CASES ON CONTRACT CLAUSE
• Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
• Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (1837)
• Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934)
• United States Trust Company v. New Jersey (1977)
• Buffalo Teachers Federation v. Tobe (2006)
• 12 ECONOMIC DUE PROCESS AND THE TAKINGS CLAUSE
• CASES ON ECONOMIC DUE PROCESS AND THE TAKINGS CLAUSE
• The Slaughter-House Cases (1873)
• Saenz v. Roe (1999)
• Munn v. Illinois (1877)
• Lochner v. New York (1905)
• West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)
• Williamson v. Lee Optical Company (1955)
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Campbell (2003)
• Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Company (2009)
• United States v. Carolene Products Company (1938)
• Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
• Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
• Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002)
• Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994)
• THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT
• GLOSSARY OF COMMON LEGAL TERMS