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• ISBN: 0871878291
• ISBN: 9780871878298
• Physical Description: xv, 651 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, ©1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The U.S. Constitution -- An Introduction to the U.S. Constitution -- The Road to the U.S. Constitution -- Underlying Principles of the Constitution -- Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court -- Processing Supreme Court Cases -- Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Legally Relevant Approaches -- Supreme Court Decisionmaking: Extralegal Approaches -- Conducting Research on the Supreme Court -- Institutional Authority -- Structuring the Federal System -- Origins of the Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances System -- Separation of Powers and the Constitution -- Contemporary Thinking on the Constitutional Scheme: Separation of Powers Games -- The Judiciary -- Establishment of the Federal Judiciary -- Judicial Review -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816) -- Eakin v. Raub (1825) -- Constraints on Judicial Power: Article III -- Ex parte McCardle (1869) -- Baker v. Carr (1962) -- Nixon v. United States (1993) -- Flast v. Cohen (1968) -- Constraints on Judicial Power: The Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances System -- The Legislature -- Article I: Historical Overview -- Congressional Authority over Internal Affairs: Institutional Independence and Integrity -- Powell v. McCormack (1969) -- U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (1995) -- Gravel v. United States (1972) -- Sources and Scope of Legislative Powers -- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) -- McGrain v. Daugherty (1927) -- Watkins v. United States (1957) -- Barenblatt v. United States (1959) -- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936).

Supplement Note:

Kept up to date by supplements.

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Subject:

Constitutional law > United States > Cases.
Constitutional law.
United States.

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Trials, litigation, etc.