Reflections on constitutional law [[electronic resource] /] / George Anastaplo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777654603321
• Autore: Anastaplo George <1925->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2006
• ISBN: 0-8131-3729-2; 1-283-23259-6; 9786613232595; 0-8131-7134-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.73
• Soggetti: Constitutional law - United States; Constitutional history - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An introduction to constitutionalism -- Magna Carta (1215) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Articles of Confederation (1776-1789) ; the Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- Emergence of the constitution (1786-1791) -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Swift v. Tyson (1842) ; Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins (1938) -- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816) ; M'culloch v. Maryland (1819) -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Burdens on interstate commerce (1905-1981) -- Missouri v. Holland (1920) ; Wickard v. Filburn (1942) -- The presidency and the constitution -- A government of enumerated powers? -- Realism and the study of constitutional law -- The challenges of skepticism for the constitutionalist -- Constitutionalism and the common law : the Erie problem reconsidered -- The Confederate Constitution (1861-1865) -- The Japanese relocation cases (1943,1944) -- Calder v. Bull (1798) ; Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Corfield v. Coryell (1823) and the privileges and immunities puzzles -- The slaughter-house cases (1872) : a false start? -- The civil rights cases (1883) ; Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) : more false starts? -- Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) ; Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955) -- Affirmative action and the Fourteenth Amendment -- San Antonio ; Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) -- Whose votes count for what--and when?
• Sommario/riassunto: In a trend that disturbs nationally known constitutional scholar George Anastaplo, law schools now place very little emphasis on the study of the United States Constitution as a document. Today, many constitutional law professors spend less than a week teaching the history, philosophical tenets, and legal origins of the Constitution itself and more time on Supreme Court cases. In Reflections on Constitutional Law, Anastaplo emphasizes the continuing significance and importance of the Constitution by examining the most important influences on the American constitutional system, including the