CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS Professor Pushaw SYLLABUS, PART I Note: Page numbers keyed to Brest, Levinson et al, Processes of Constitutional Decision-Making (5th ed. 2006) (new edition)
Preface Constitution of the United States
xxxi - xxxvi 1 - 15
PART ONE, INTRODUCTION I. Background to the Constitution 19 - 26
Chapter 1 The Bank of the United States: A Case Study I. Early Background The First Bank of the United States The Second Bank Judicial Examination of Congress’ Authority to Create the Bank The States’ Power to Tax the Bank of the United States The Demise of the Second Bank Freedom of Expression and States’ Rights in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Sedition Act of 1798 27 - 28 28 - 37 37 38 - 59, 62 - 64 67 - 74 74 - 84 84 - 95
II. III. IV. V. VI. VII.
Chapter 2 The Marshall Court
I. II. III. VIII.
Initial Years: 1789-1801 Election of 1800 Marbury and Judicial Review of Legislation Regulation of the Interstate Economy
97 - 99 99 - 103 108 - 136 168-186
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Chapter 3 The Taney Court and the Civil War, 1835-1865 Introduction I. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and Personal Mobility The President as Commander-in-Chief and Preservation of the Union Chapter 4 From Reconstruction to the New Deal: 1866 to 1934 187 - 191 191 - 208 261 - 287
III.
IV.
Congressional Regulation of Interstate Commerce and of the National Economy
435 - 460
PART TWO Constitutional Adjudication in the Modern World Chapter 5 Economic Regulation, Federalism, and Separation of Powers in the Modern Era I. II. The Decline of Judicial Intervention Against Economic Regulation Relaxation of Judicial Constraints on Congressional Power 499-510 549-570 600-646 649-665 674-711 729-734 736, 749-760 773-792 795-817 819-867 887-892 485
Affirmative Limits on Congressional Regulation of State Governments
Interstate Federalism and the National Economy The Executive Power
Some Limits on Federal Judicial Power Chapter 6 The Constitutional Treatment of Race
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Korematsu
966-975
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