For courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, Law and Society, Supreme Court, and American Politics. Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers and Individual Freedoms, 3/e offers comprehensive coverage of two traditional constitutional law subjects: governmental powers and civil liberties. It strives to balance historically significant cases with contemporary problems and includes excerpts of significant cases within the text. Written in a style designed for undergraduates, legal terms are defined in a running glossary and applications assignments appear at the end of each chapter.
The Court's more recent statement in Pike, however, suggests that it may now be possible to challenge a law under the dormant Commerce Clause by showing that the state could have achieved its purposes equally well through alternative ...
Turner redivivus. On remand, a three judge federal court held 2-1, that, using the O'Brien standard, there was substantial evidence justifying the congressional judgment that must-carry was necessary “to protect the economic health of ...
Introduction: Putting the people back in "We the people" / Michael C. Dorf -- The story of Marbury v. Madison: making defeat look like victory / Michael W. McConnell --...
The combination of text and cases creates flexibility in structuring class time. Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice makes complex concepts accessible to students in all levels of criminal justice education.
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Thorough coverage of the topic makes it appropriate for both beginning and advanced courses. New to the Sixth Edition: New discussion of the Preamble to the Constitution in Ch. 1 Discussion of many new cases throughout the book.
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D. OPTIONAL READINGS Procedural Due Process The following sources present the topics covered in this chapter in more depth than the chapter introduction. ... Michael C. Dorf & Trevor W. Morrison, Constitutional Law (2010) , chapter 8.
The text's flexible organization accommodates a variety of course structures so that no chapter assumes that students have read preceding material.
Combining legal analysis with historical narrative and sensitivity to political context, the book provides deeper understanding of how constitutional law arises, functions, and changes in a complex, often-divided society.