The Eighteenth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all areas of constitutional law, including judicial review, separation of powers, federalism, due process, equal protection, free speech, and religious liberty. It emphasizes the current state of constitutional law and aims to enable students who use it to practice constitutional law as lawyers. It also seeks to illuminate the historical, theoretical, and philosophical background that bears on constitutional law and informs its practice. The 18th edition thoroughly revises, updates and streamlines this classic casebook, emphasizing contemporary problems in areas from the health care decision to the war on terror. Highlights of the 18th edition include updates on the commerce clause, taxing, and spending in the light of the Obamacare decision and the changing profile of free speech regulation in the age of the material support of terrorism statute.
Pink, 315 U.S. 203, 225 (1942) To resolve these difficulties, nations have often entered into agreements settling the claims of their respective nationals. As one treatise writer puts it, international agreements settling claims by ...
In 1916 , Hughes resigned to run for the presidency on the Republican and Progressive tickets against Woodrow Wilson . On election eve , he went to bed thinking that he was President , but when the final returns were counted , he had ...
Constitutional Law in Context
Constitutional Law in Context
See Peter Bachrach , The Theory of Democratic Elitism : A Critique ( Boston : Little , Brown , 1967 ) ; David M. Ricci , " Democracy Attenuated : Schumpeter , the Process Theory , and American Democratic Thought , " Journal of Politics ...
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 ...
The first of its kind, LexisNexis Glance Cards are dynamic and easy-to-use cards that cover the major core subject areas of law, including Criminal, Contract, Property, Trusts, Equity, Corporations, Constitutional, Administrative, Evidence ...
With special reference to the experience of Britain and Germany, this book examines the dilemma faced by constitutional governments in trying to draft anti-terrorist laws while preserving civil liberties.
McCarthy led a group who believed that a runaway presidency was a major cause of continued American participation in the Vietnam war and that a way to withdraw from the war was to curb the presidency . Robert Kennedy , after an earlier ...
Constitución española y leyes políticas