American constitutional history : a brief introduction / Jack Fruchtman.
2016
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Author
Title
American constitutional history : a brief introduction / Jack Fruchtman.
Published
Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
KF4541 .F78 2016
ISBN
9781119141723 (hardback)
1119141729 (hardback)
9781119141754 (paperback)
1119141753 (paperback)
1119141729 (hardback)
9781119141754 (paperback)
1119141753 (paperback)
Description
xviii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)926820153
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-267) and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Prologue
xiii
Structure of the Book
xvii
Part 1 The New Republic, 1781-1828
1
John Locke, Deism, and Religious Liberty
5
1.
Ideological Origins of the New Republic
9
Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention
10
Ratification and the Bill of Rights
21
2.
Representative and Constitutional Democracy
28
Judicial Review, Judicial Duty
31
Economic Policy in the New Republic
35
3.
Nationalization of the Constitution and Executive Power
45
Part 2 The Slave Republic, 1789-1877
53
Constitutional Amendments
56
4.
Commerce, Nullification, and Slavery
59
Other Economic Rulings
60
Nullification Controversy
62
Dred Scott
65
5.
Civil War and Reconstruction
70
Lincoln and War
71
Reconstruction
78
6.
Rights and Privileges
84
Privileges and Immunities
86
Women's Rights
89
Persecution of Newly Freed Slaves
91
Part 3 The Free Market Republic, 1877-1937
95
Constitutional Amendments
96
7.
Development of Substantive Due Process
99
Procedural Due Process
100
Substantive Due Process
101
Restraint of Trade in the Free Market Era
105
Liberty of Contract
107
Regulating Industry
111
Great Depression
113
8.
Civil Rights After Reconstruction
115
Equality and African-Americans
115
Parents and Educational Rights
123
Right to be Let Alone
125
9.
Re-emergence of Executive Power
126
Leadership and the Presidency
126
America and World War I
128
Criminal Anarchy and Criminal Syndicalism in the 1920's
137
Part 4 The Welfare State Republic, 1937-1995
143
Constitutional Amendments
144
10.
Advocates and Enemies of Social Welfare
147
Court Changes
149
New Social Welfare Programs
153
11.
Growth of Civil Liberties
154
Free Expression
154
Free Press
158
Religious Establishments
160
Criminal Suspects and Capital Punishment
164
Privacy
167
12.
Civil Rights Movement
172
School Desegregation
172
Civil and Voting Rights
175
Strict Scrutiny and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
177
Affirmative Action in Government Contracts
181
Women's Rights and Affirmative Action
182
13.
Expanding Presidential Power
186
Presidential Power and Japanese Internments
187
Military Tribunals
191
Vietnam and its Aftermath
192
Re-emergence of a Powerful Executive
195
Part 5 The Contemporary Republic, 1995-2013
199
14.
Federal Commerce Power and Economic Regulation
201
Narrowing Federal Commerce Power
202
Health-care Reform
205
15.
Rights, Liberties, and Judicial Doctrines
209
Affirmative Action and Education
209
Campaign Finance
212
Right to Bear Arms
213
Capital Punishment
216
Right to Privacy
218
Religious Establishments
220
16.
Executive Authority and Terrorism
224
Protecting America in an Era of Terrorism
224
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
229
Executive Power Under Barack Obama
233
Epilogue
239
Government and the Economy
241
Government and Individual and Civil Rights
243
Executive Power
254
Republic if you can Keep it
257
Bibliography
260
Prologue
261
Part 1: The New Republic, 1781-1828
262
Part 2: The Slave Republic, 1789-1877
263
Part 3: The Free Market Republic, 1877-1937
263
Part 4: The Welfare State Republic, 1937-1995
264
Part 5: The Contemporary Republic, 1995-2013
265
Epilogue
267
Index
268