American Constitutional Law

Volume Two: Liberty and Equality

Table of Contents

• Editorial Notes
• How Cases Get to the Supreme Court
• Map of the Federal Circuit
• Timeline of the Justices
• INTRODUCTION: THE ORIGINAL DEBATE
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • The Constitution
  • Federalist No. 84
  • Letter from Jefferson to Madison (Dec. 20, 1787)
  • Letter from Madison to Jefferson (Oct. 17, 1788)
  • Letter from Jefferson to Madison (March 15, 1789)
  • Selections from Tocqueville's Democracy in America
• PART I: LIBERTY
  • Incorporation
    • Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
    • Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
    • Adamson v. California (1947)
    • Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
  • Free Speech
    • Security and Incitement
      • Schenck v. United States (1919)
      • Abrams v. United States (1919)
      • Dennis v. United States (1951)
      • Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
      • Rankin v. McPherson (1987)
    • Hate and Symbolic
      • Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
      • Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)
      • Cohen v. California (1971)
      • Texas v. Johnson (1989)
      • R.A.V. v. St. Paul (1992)
    • Other Limits on Free Speech
      • Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)
      • PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)
      • Madsen v. Women's Health Center (1994)
  • Freedom of Religion
    • Foundations
      • A Bill For Establishing Religious Freedom
      • Notes on the State of Virginia
      • A Memorial and Remonstrance. . .
    • Establishment and the Wall of Separation
      • Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
      • Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
      • Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
      • Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches School District (1993)
    • Religious Liberty and the Pledge
      • Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
      • West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)
      • Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)
    • Religious Liberty and Prayer
      • Engel v. Vitale (1962)
      • Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
      • Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
      • Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
    • Accommodation and Religious Liberty
      • Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
      • Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
      • Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
      • Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah (1993)
      • Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
      • City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
  • Fundamental Liberties
    • Calder v. Bull (1798)
    • Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
    • Slaughter-House Cases (1872)
  • Substantive Due Process
    • Property and Economic Rights
      • Munn v. Illinois (1876)
      • Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897)
      • Lochner v. New York (1905)
      • Adair v. United States (1908)
      • Muller v. Oregon (1908)
      • Coppage v. Kansas (1914)
      • Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
      • Nebbia v. New York (1934)
      • West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
      • Williamson v. Lee Optical (1955)
      • Ferguson v. Skrupa (1963)
    • Privacy and Autonomy
      • Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
      • Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
      • Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
      • Roe v. Wade (1973)
      • Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
      • Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990)
      • Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
• PART II: EQUALITY
  • Slavery and Segregation
    • Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856)
    • Civil Rights Cases (1883)
    • Plessy v. Fergusson (1896)
  • Race in Education
    • Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)
    • Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)
    • Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
    • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District (1971)
    • Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
    • Missouri v. Jenkins (1995)
  • Discrimination: Public and Private
    • Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
    • Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority (1961)
    • Peterson v. Greenville (1963)
    • Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis (1972)
  • Suspect Classification
    • Korematsu v. United States (1942)
    • Loving v. Virginia (1967)
    • University of California v. Bakke (1978)
    • Adarand Constructors v. Pena (1995)
    • Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
    • Craig v. Boren (1976)
    • United States v. Virginia (1996)
    • San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973)
    • Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)
    • Romer v. Evans (1996)
• PART III: DEATH PENALTY
  • Furman v. Georgia (1972)
  • Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
  • McClesky v. Kemp (1987)
  • Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
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