The American Constitutional Experience: Selected Readings and Supreme Court Opinions

Preface 

Chapter 1
The Role of the Supreme Court in American Constitutional Development

Chapter 2
The Constitution: Text and Context
The Declaration of Independence—1776
The Articles of Confederation—1781
The Federalist No. 10
James Madison

Chapter 3
Judicial Power and Judicial Review
The Federalist No. 78
Alexander Hamilton
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012)

Chapter 4
Balancing Governmental Authority: The Evolving Pattern of Separation of Powers
The Federalist No. 51
James Madison
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
Zivotofsky v. Kerry (2015)
 

Chapter 5
Federalism: The Interaction of National and State Governments
The Federalist No. 39
James Madison
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech (1858)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)
South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, et al. v. Angel McClary Raich, et al. (2005)
Arizona v. United States (2012)

Chapter 6
Racial Equality under the Constitution
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Frederick Douglass
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Education I and II (1954 and 1955)
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007)
Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

Chapter 7
The New Equal Protection
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
United States v. Virginia (1996)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
Plyler v. Doe (1982)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Chapter 8
The Bill of Rights and Due Process of Law
The Federalist No. 84
Alexander Hamilton
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
District of Columbia et al. v. Heller (2008)

Chapter 9
Criminal Procedure and Due Process of Law
James Otis on the Writs of Assistance, 1761
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Dickerson v. United States (2000)
Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Lindsay Earls, et al. (2002)
Arizona, Petitioner v. Rodney Joseph Grant (2009)
Riley v. California (2014)

Chapter 10
First Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Assembly
Excerpt from On Liberty (1859)
John Stuart Mill Schenck v. United States (1919)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Morse v. Frederick (2007)
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) (2010)
Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

Chapter 11
First Amendment: Freedom of the Press
John Peter Zenger’s Libel Trial (1735)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
Miller v. California (1973)
Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (2004)
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)

Chapter 12
First Amendment: Freedom of Religion
Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments
James Madison
Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association
Thomas Jefferson
Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing (1947)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014)

Appendix A The Constitution of the United States of America
Appendix B Chronology of U.S. Supreme Court Justices