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• Foreword
• Preface
• Colonial charters and first settlement : the "liberties of Englishmen"
• The New England colonies : the "word of God" and the "laws of England"
• The proprietary colonies
• William Penn and Pennsylvania
• English laws and English history
• Lawyers and lawbooks
• The stirrings of colonial discontent
• Revolutionary leaderships : two Adamses
• From English rights restated to independence declared
• The colonists' case : the rights of Englishmen or the rights of man?
• The state constitutions : old wine in new bottles
• The federal constitution : conserving and creating
• The adoption of British statutes after the Revolution
• The shape of American law after the Revolution
• Justice neither sold, denied, nor delayed
• From "law of the land" to "due process of law"
• Due process of law : attainders and fair procedures
• Due process of law : property and jury trial
• Due process of law : the coat of many colors.

For the eight hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, the University of Virginia Press presents the first paperback edition of The Road from Runnymede by A.E. Dick Howard, originally published in 1968. In this volume, Howard explores the ways in which the Magna Carta's concepts, most notably due process, have been absorbed and put into practice by English and especially American society. He goes on to show how the idea of constitutional government evolved in America, moving beyond the foundations laid by the Magna Carta to adapt itself to the new republic's needs.
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• v. 1. Structures of government
• v. 2. Rights and liberties

In this groundbreaking text, three highly acclaimed scholars provide historical context that puts the politics back into constitutional studies. Constitutionalism in the United States is not determined solely by decisions made by the Supreme Court. Moving beyond traditional casebooks, renowned scholars Howard Gillman, Mark A. Graber, and Keith E. Whittington take a refreshingly innovative approach in American Constitutionalism. Organized according to the standard two-semester sequence--in which Volume I covers institutions and Volume II covers Rights and Liberties-- this text is unique in that it presents the material in a historical organization within each volume, as opposed to the typical issues-based organization. FEATURES: * Covers all important debates in U.S. constitutionalism, organized by historical era * Incorporates readings from all of the prominent participants in those debates * Clearly lays out the political and legal contexts in chapter introductions * Integrates more documents and cases than any other text on the market, including decisions made by elected officials and state courts * Offers numerous pedagogical features, including topical sections within each historical chapter, bulleted lists of major developments, explanatory headnotes for the readings, questions on court cases, illustrations and political cartoons, tables, and suggested readings.
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• Introduction
• The intellectual origins of the constitution
• Creating a national government
• The federal judiciary
• The federal executive
• The federal legislature
• Slavery
• The ratification process : federalists and anti-federalists
• The Bill of rights
• The ideological origins of the reconstruction amendments
• The thirteenth amendment
• The fourteenth amendment
• The fifteenth amendment
• The Supreme Court's use of history
• The originalism debate.

• v. 1. From the founding to 1890
• v. 2. From 1898 to the present.

• Each chapter ends with a list of Further Readings.
• 1. INTERPRETING AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. Essays: Jennifer Nedelsky, The Constitution and the Protection of Private Property-- John E. Semonche, The Supreme Court as a Unifying Force in American Culture-- Larry D. Kramer, Popular Constitutionalism-- Linda K. Kerber, Gender and American Citizenship.
• 2. CREATING THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. Documents: Political Theorist John Locke Describes the Ends of Political Society and Government, 1690-- American Colonists Declare Their Independence, 1776-- The American Colonies Form a Confederation, 1777-- Convention Delegate Edmund Randolph Proposes the Virginia Plan, May 29, 1787-- William Paterson Proposes the New Jersey Plan, June 15, 1787-- Delegates Debate the Creation of a National Legislature, May-June, 1787-- Delegates Debate Slavery and Representation, June-July, 1787-- Delegate James Madison Advocates an Extended Republic,
• 1788. Essays: Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Debate over Representation-- Forrest McDonald, The Power of Ideas in the Convention-- Jan Lewis, Representation of Women in the Constitution.
• 3. RIGHTS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC. Documents: Virginian James Madison Champions Religious Liberty, 1785-- Anti-Federalist George Mason Outlines his Objections to the Proposed Constitution, 1787-- Madison Advocates a Bill of Rights, 1789-- The Sedition Act Limits Criticism of the National Government, 1798-- The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Decry the Abuse of National Power, 1798-1799-- Lyon's Case,
• 1798. Essays: Saul Cornell, The Anti-Federalists and American Liberty-- Leonard W. Levy, The Republicans and the Transformation of Libertarian Thought.
• 4. THE DEPARTMENTAL THEORY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF JUDICIAL REVIEW. Documents: Federalist Alexander Hamilton Defends Judicial Review, 1788-- Kamper v. Hawkins, 1793-- Republican John Breckenridge Advocates the Repeal of the Federalist's Judiciary Act, 1802-- Marbury v. Madison, 1803-- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1816-- McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819-- President Andrew Jackson Defies the Supreme Court and Vetoes the Bank Bill,
• 1832. Essays:Larry D. Kramer, Marshall, Marbury, and the Defense of Judicial Review-- Sylvia Snowiss, Judicial Review and the Law of the Constitution-- Timothy S. Huebner, Spencer Roane, Judicial Power, and State Sovereignty.
• 5. ANDREW JACKSON, NULLIFICATION, AND INDIAN REMOVAL. Documents: South Carolinian John C. Calhoun Proposes Nullification, 1828-- President Andrew Jackson Advocates Indian Removal, 1829-- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831-- Worcester v. Georgia, 1832-- South Carolina Nullifies the Tariff, 1832-- Jackson Threatens South Carolina,
• 1832. Essays: Jill Norgren, Worcester and the Politics of the Nullification Crisis-- Gerard N. Magliocca, Jackson, Worcester, and Generational Change.
• 6. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SLAVERY, AND THE CIVIL WAR. Documents: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Describes the Constitution as Anti-Slavery, 1852-- Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857-- The Confederacy Writes a Constitution, 1861-- President Abraham Lincoln Rejects Secession and Criticizes the Supreme Court, 1861-- Ex parte Merryman, 1861-- Lincoln Emancipates Slaves in the Confederacy, 1863-- Lincoln Defends His Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus,
• 1863. Essays: Daniel Farber, Lincoln's Mixed Record on Individual Rights-- James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Transformation of American Liberty.
• 7. RECONSTRUCTION AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Documents: Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment, 1866-- The Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873-- Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873-- Minor v. Happersett, 1875-- The Civil Rights Cases, 1883-- Plessy v. Ferguson,
• 1896. Essays: Akhil Reed Amar, Reconstruction and the Birth of the Bill of Rights-- Michael Les Benedict, The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction-- Joan Hoff, The Supreme Court's Denial of the Rights of Women.
• 8. PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION AND THE LIBERTY TO CONTRACT. Documents: Legal Scholar Christopher G. Tiedeman Advocates a Limited Police Power, 1886-- The People's Party Announces Its Agenda for Reform, 1896-- Lochner v. New York, 1905-- Reformers Louis D. Brandeis and Josephine Goldmark Document the Hardships Faced by Women Industrial Workers, 1908-- Muller v. Oregon, 1908-- Legal Scholar Roscoe Pound Criticizes the Liberty to Contract, 1909-- Adkins v. Children's Hospital,
• 1923. Essays: Paul Kens, The Lochner Court and Judicial Conservatism-- Julie Novkov, Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era.
• 9. TOTAL WAR AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN CIVIL LIBERTIES. Documents: President Woodrow Wilson Announces Regulations Governing Alien Enemies, 1917-- The Espionage Act Restricts Speech in Wartime, 1917/1918-- Schenck v. United States, 1919-- Legal Scholar Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Advocates Freedom of Speech, 1919-- Abrams v. United States, 1919-- Gitlow v. New York, 1925-- Near v. Minnesota,
• 1931. Essays: David M. Rabban, Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Judicial Transformation of the First Amendment-- Samuel Walker, The Civil Liberties Bureau and the Origins of the Fight for Free Speech.
• 10. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, THE DEPRESSION, AND THE NEW DEAL. Documents: The National Recovery Act Attempts to Bring the Nation Out of the Depression, 1933-- The Agricultural Adjustment Act Provides Subsidies for Farmers, 1933-- Schechter v. United States, 1935-- United States v. Butler, 1936-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Advocates Judicial Reform, 1937-- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1937-- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish,
• 1937. Essays: Jim Powell, The 'Four Horsemen' Were Right. The New Deal Was Unconstitutional-- Cass R. Sunstein, The New Deal Shows the Flexibility-and Genius-of the Constitution.
• 11. RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE COLD WAR ERA. Documents: Sweatt v. Painter, 1950-- An Amicus Brief Filed by the U.S. Government Urges an End to Racial Segregation, 1953-- Brown v. Board of Education, I, 1954-- Brown v. Board of Education, II, 1955-- White Southern Members of Congress Declare Their Opposition to Brown, 1956-- The Civil Rights Act Forbids Discrimination in Public Education and Employment, 1964-- President Lyndon Johnson Vows to Fight Injustice and Inequality,
• 1965. Essays: Derrick A. Bell, Brown Was Wrongly Decided-- Kermit L. Hall, Brown Furthered the Cause of Human Rights.
• 12. ABORTION RIGHTS. THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA COMPARED Documents: Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965-- A Proposed Constitutional Amendment Promises Equal Rights for Women, 1972-- Fundamentalist Pastor Jerry Falwell Denounces the ERA, 1980-- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992-- South Africa's Constitution Affirms Women's Rights, 1996-- Christian Lawyer's Association of South Africa v. Minister of Health,
• 1998. Essays: John Hart Ely, Roe v. Wade Was a Mistake-- N.E.H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer, Roe Symbolized an Idea Whose Time Had Come.
• 13. FREEDOM OF AND FREEDOM FROM RELIGION. Documents: Engel v. Vitale, 1962-- President John F. Kennedy Comments on the School Prayer Decision, 1962-- Lemon v. Kurtzman, 1971-- Wallace v. Jaffree, 1985-- Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 1990-- Congress Overturns Smith in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 1993-- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris,
• 2002. Essays: Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause Erects a Wall of Separation-- Stephen L. Carter, The Establishment Clause Was Not Meant to Establish Public Secularism.
• 14. FEDERALISM AND JUDICIAL REVIEW Documents: Wickard v. Filburn, 1942-- Senator Barry Goldwater Defends the Rights of the States, 1960-- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 1964-- Congress Protects the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence, 1994-- United States v. Lopez, 1995-- Printz v. United States, 1997-- United States v. Morrison,
• 2000. Essays: Steven G. Calabresi, In Defense of Federalism-- Catharine A. MacKinnon, Federalism and the Protection of Male Sovereignty.
• 15. PRESIDENTIAL POWER FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR. Documents: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952---- Congress Gives Authority to President Lyndon B. Johnson to Wage War in Vietnam, 1964-- Congress Reasserts Itself in the War Powers Resolution, 1973-- United States v. Nixon, 1974-- Congress Authorizes President George W. Bush to Fight International Terrorism, 2001-- The Justice Department Asserts that Enforcement of Federal Anti-Torture Laws Would Violate the President's Powers as Commander-in-Chief, 2002-- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld,
• 2004. Essays: John Yoo, The President Possesses the Constitutional Power to Wage War on Terrorism-- Peter Irons, President Bush's War on Terrorism Has Hijacked the Constitution. APPENDIX. Constitution of the United States. Justices of the United States Supreme Court.
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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. This collection, designed to be the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covers the entire chronological span of Constitutional history. Tracing the historical development of American constitutional thought, the Second Edition of this anthology presents the documents critical to constitutional development, including actual legal texts as well as the reactions of prominent legal minds.
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• The morning after
• "Take this or nothing"
• A war of printed words : the national debate begins
• The Pennsylvania convention-- ... with Delaware, New Jersey, and Georgia
• "We the people" of Connecticut and Massachusetts
• The Massachusetts Convention I : the "conversation" begins
• The Massachusetts Convention II : "...with cordiality"
• A rough road to Richmond : New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maryland, and South Carolina
• The Virginia Convention I : a battle of giants
• The Virginia Convention II : under the eyes of heaven
• On to Poughkeepsie
• The New York Convention I : a failure of oratory
• The New York Convention II : in or out?
• Some final twists : the North Carolina Convention, a meeting in Pennsylvania, and the ratification story draws to an end.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the George Washington Book Prize When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether that would happen. The document we revere today as the foundation of our country's laws, the cornerstone of our legal system, was hotly disputed at the time. Some Americans denounced the Constitution for threatening the liberty that Americans had won at great cost in the Revolutionary War. One group of fiercely patriotic opponents even burned the document in a raucous public demonstration on the Fourth of July. In this splendid new history, Pauline Maier tells the dramatic story of the yearlong battle over ratification that brought such famous founders as Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and Henry together with less well-known Americans who sometimes eloquently and always passionately expressed their hopes and fears for their new country. Men argued in taverns and coffeehouses; women joined the debate in their parlors; broadsides and newspaper stories advocated various points of view and excoriated others. In small towns and counties across the country people read the document carefully and knew it well. Americans seized the opportunity to play a role in shaping the new nation. Then the ratifying conventions chosen by "We the People" scrutinized and debated the Constitution clause by clause. Although many books have been written about the Constitutional Convention, this is the first major history of ratification. It draws on a vast new collection of documents and tells the story with masterful attention to detail in a dynamic narrative. Each state's experience was different, and Maier gives each its due even as she focuses on the four critical states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York, whose approval of the Constitution was crucial to its success. The New Yorker Gilbert Livingston called his participation in the ratification convention the greatest transaction of his life. The hundreds of delegates to the ratifying conventions took their responsibility seriously, and their careful inspection of the Constitution can tell us much today about a document whose meaning continues to be subject to interpretation. Ratification is the story of the founding drama of our nation, superbly told in a history that transports readers back more than two centuries to reveal the convictions and aspirations on which our country was built.
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• Bricks without straw : grievances
• The fault is all your own : rebuttals
• To relieve the distressed : demands
• Save the people : requisition
• Who will call this justice? : quarrels
• Honest laborers and idle drones: economics
• The fate of republican govt : redemption
• A revolution which ought to be glorious : disenchantment
• A murmuring underneath : rebellion
• Excess of democracy : reform
• The nature of a contract:
• section 10
• Divide et impera : statecraft
• More adequate to the purposes :
• section 8
• Take up the reins : ratification
• More productive and less oppressive : taxes
• As if impounded : consolidation.

• In the beginning
• New rules for a new world
• Congressional powers
• America's first officer
• Presidential powers
• Judges and juries
• States and territories
• The law of the land
• Making amends
• A new birth of freedom
• Progressive reforms
• Modern moves.

• The creation of American constitutionalism
• The North American colonies
• The American Revolution
• Writing the American constitution
• The early American republic
• The Marshall court.

• Preface. The Constitution of the United States. American Constitutionalism. I. THE FIRST NATION.
• 1. The Groundwork of Revolution. Colonial Society. The Economics of Empire. Religion and Religious Tolerance. Governing and Being Governed. Law and the Rule of Law. A Decade of Ferment. The Great Debate. One Revolution or Two? Sidebar: Grandfather of His Country.
• 2. Independence and Confederation. The Revolutionary Government. British Defeat. The Articles of Confederation. Republican State Constitutions. New Nation, Old Law. New Difficulties. The Road to Philadelphia. Sidebar: The First Constitution. II. UNION AND NATION.
• 3. The Framing. Who Was There. Accord on Ends. In Convention. Done and Not Done. The Anti-Federalist Attack. The Constitution Defended. The Constitution Ratified. A Bill of Rights. The Second New Nation. Sidebars: Original Intent The Little Engine That Could.
• 4. The Formative Period. The Federalist Regime. Hamilton's Political Economy. Constitutional Precedents in the Making. Opposition of Jefferson and Madison. An Unhappy Succession. The Early Supreme Court. The Judiciary Act of
• 1789. The Eleventh Amendment. Constitutional Decisions. Republican Constitutionalism. The Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson's Embargo. Madison's War. Internal Improvements. End of an Era. Judicial Independence. Packing and Unpacking. The Marbury Case. The Impeachment Attack. The Burr Treason Trial. Marshall's Nationalism. The Jurisdictional Challenge of States Rights. The Reach and Supremacy of National Power. Jacksonian Democracy. The New Politics. The Strong Presidency. The Nullification Crisis. Sidebars: The Nation Builder. Fixing a Mechanical Flaw. The Chief Justice. Judicial Review. Cases: Chrisholm v. Georgia. Marbury v. Madison. Martin v. Hunter's Lessee. McCulloch v. Maryland. Cohens v. Virginia. Barron v. Baltimore. Luther v. Borden.
• 5. Slavery and Civil War. Conflict and Compromise. The New Political Economy of Slavery. The Issue Nationalized. The Abolitionist Movement. Fugitive Slaves. In the Supreme Court. Southwest Expansion. The Texas Question. War with Mexico. The Backlash. The Decade of Strife. A New Settlement. The Kansas Conflict. The Republican Party. The Nadir of the Presidency and the Court. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. From Politics to War. The Election of
• 1860. Secession Winter. War Government. Lincoln's Constitutional Dictatorship. Legal Status of the War. Internal Security and Civil Liberty. The Status of Slavery. Growth of Federal Power. Reconstruction. The Presidential Plans. Congressional Reconstruction of Reconstruction. The Impeachment of Johnson. The Problematic Court. The End of Reconstruction. Sidebars: Ideas of the Iron Man. Of Many Virtues and a Flaw. Constitutionalism Confederate Style. The Constitution at Gettysburg. Cases: Prigg v. Pennsylvania. Scott v. Sandford. Ableman v. Booth. The Prize Cases. Ex parte Milligan. Mississippi v. Johnson. Ex parte McCardle. Texas v. White. III. CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY.
• 6. The Republic of Bees. Born Blessed. A Constitutional Door. The Transformation of American Law. The Obligation of Contracts. Toward a National Marketplace. The National Marketplace Modified. New Property vs. Old. Sidebars: The Constitutional Lawyer. Scholar of the Law. Cases: Fletcher v. Peck. Dartmouth College v. Woodward. Gibbons v. Ogden. Mayor of New York v. Miln. Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. Cooley v. Board of Wardens.
• 7. Industrial Capitalism and the Middle Constitution. The New Economic Order. Interconnecting a Continent. Organization of Big Capital. Response of Middling Government. The Waite Court. The Fuller Court. Substantive Due Process and Liberty of Contract. Regulation by Commission? Not Entirely. Trust-busting? Sometimes. Income Tax? Not at All. The Progressive Interlude. The New Reform. The White Court. Federal Police Power. State Regulation and the Brandeis. Proof Revitalization of the I. C. C. Mobilization for War. Return to "Normalcy". Taft and His Court. No Again to Child Labor Reform. Liberty of Contract Renascent. Protecting Against Labor Insurgency. Property v Property Regulation of Land Use. Sidebars: A Creed for the Times. Retreat from a Cause. The Brahman Skeptic. Attorney for the People. Case Studies: The Slaughterhouse Cases. Munn v. Illinois. United States v. E.C. Knight Co. Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co. Champion v. Ames. McCray v. United States. Lochner v. New York. Muller v. Oregon. The Shreveport Rate Case. Hammer v. Dagenhart. Bailey v. Drexal Furniture Co. Adkins v. Children's Hospital.
• 8. The New Deal: Economic and Constitutional Crisis. The Great Decline. Failure of Policy and Imagination. Mandate for Change. The One Hundred Days. The "Second" New Deal. Judicial Resistance. The Holdover Court. First Response. "Black Monday" and Beyond. Battle Lost, War Won. Roosevelt's Plan. The Switch in Time. Aftermath. The Roosevelt's Court. The New Constitutional Order. Sidebars: Repeal. Public Servant Extraordinary. Longevity in the Robe. Justice of the Judicial Process. Cases: Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell. Schecter Poultry Co. v. United States. Carter v. Carter Coal Co. United States v. Butler. West Coast Hotel v. Parrish. National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Co. Steward Machine Co. v. Davis. United States v. Darby Lumber Co. Wickard v. Filburn. IV. THE MODERN CONSTITUTION.
• 9. Presidential Power and Divided Government. War and National Security. Roosevelt's Wartime "Dictatorship". Korea and the Cold War. Vietnam and Beyond. Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs. Treaties and Treaty-Making. Executive Agreements. Holding Office. Appointment. Removal. Term Limits. The Bounds of Office. Executive Privilege and Information. The Arrogation of Power. The Watergate Crisis. Immunities. Legislative Power Delegated and Retained. Creation of the Administrative State. The Legislative Veto. Hybrid Offices and Mixed Functions. Congressional Investigation. McCarthyism. Later Issues. The Modern Court. Role in the Separation of Powers. Deciding to Decide. Composition and Change. Sidebars: The President and the Prosecutor. The Man Who Followed Warren. Reading (into) the Constitution. Case Studies: Humphrey's Executor v. United States. Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. United States. Korematsu v. United States. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Corp. v. Sawyer. Watkins v. United States. Baker v. Carr. Flast v. Cohen. Powell v. Cohen. Powell v. McCormick. United States v. Nixon. Dames & Moore v. Reagan.
• 10. The New Federal System. The Reach of Federal Legislation. Police Regulation of Private Acts. Federal Regulation of State Government. Federal Supremacy: Preemption. Mutual Tax Immunities. Judicial Federalism. The Matter of Federal Common Law. Federal Supervisory Authority. State Regulation of Interstate Commerce. Transport. Incoming Commerce. Outgoing Commerce and State Resources. Interstate Relations. Full Faith and Credit. Privileges and Immunities. Rendition. Interstate Disputes. Interstate Compacts. Sidebar: Chief Justice Conservative. Cases: Missouri v. Holland. Southern Pacific v. Arizona. Pennsylvania v. Nelson. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States. Philadelphia v. New Jersey. Michigan v. Long. Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority. Maine v. Taylor. South Dakota v. Dole. New York v. Dole. New York v. United States. United States v. Lopez. Printz v. United States. U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton. Alden v. Maine. Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents. Reno v. Condon.
• 11. Property Rights in the Age of Regulation. Economic Due Process Interred. The Contracts Clause Revived. Eminent Domain and the Takings Clause. Public Use. What Is a Taking? Just Compensation. Cases: Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. Ferguson v. Skrupa. United States Trust v. New Jersey. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York. Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff. Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council. Appendices: Reading a Supreme Court Decision: Law in the Library and on the Internet. Getting to the Court: The Supreme Court and the American Judiciary. Reaching a Decision: The Supreme Court at Work. Justices of the Supreme Court. The Historic Supreme Courts. American National Elections, 1788-2000.
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Combining cases and text, this volume examines constitutional law in a unique, developmental framework that shows how key events through American history have shaped the Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution. Because one of the major teaching challenges in the first half of constitutional law is helping students to see how we got from "there" to "here" in the real world of national and federal politics, American Constitutional Development offers a unique developmental framework for understanding constitutional law regarding the powers of government. The book examines the great issues and events of politics in the early, middle, and modern constitutions, how they have shaped the Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution, and how the distributive consequences of that understanding, in turn, affect American political life. In looking at how constitutional law has developed, this volume provides the necessary context for understanding such modern constitutional problems as the separation of powers, federalism, and regulation of property. It expressly avoids the "law school approach" to constitutional law with its narrow focus on doctrine and formulaic topical organization which often leads to disjointed leaps backward and forward among cases politically and historically. The aim of this volume is not to teach undergraduates how to advise legal clients and win cases, but to give them a deeper, truer understanding of constitutional law, our political system, and how it got to be the way it is.
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• v. 1. From the founding to 1890
• v. 2. From 1877 to the present.

This work is an overview of American constitutional development, from the founding of the English colonies down through the decisions of the latest term of the Supreme Court. The authors examine in detail the cases handed down by the Supreme Court, showing how these cases played out in the society at large and how constitutional growth parallels change in American culture. The authors also look at lesser known decisions that played important roles in effecting change, and at the Justices who made these decisions. The book offers students of American constitutional history a complete reference work which should be intelligible to the layperson as well as to the specialist.
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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory. Vol. 18 General Editor: Garrett Ward Sheldon. Was the constitutional design of 1787 prompted by the desire of the Founding Fathers to protect their economic interests, as alleged by Charles Beard in his pathbreaking study in 1913, or was it perhaps attributable to the Framers' determination to overcome democratic turbulence in the states, as posited by the currently academically fashionable neo-Beardian school of historical interpretation? Neither thesis, Professor Slonim demonstrates, accords with the documentary record of the Constitutional Convention. Rather, the tension between the overarching need to create an effective national government and the desire to preserve state autonomy shaped the final result at Philadelphia. What emerged was a strong central government within a federal framework. Also analyzed in this volume are several neglected provisions and features of the 1787 constitutional design and their present-day implications. 'Professor Slonim, a seasoned and trenchant analytical observer of the U.S. Constitution, has provided a major contribution to investigative scholarship with his splendid tome. His rejection of the Beardian and neo-Beardian interpretation of the basic document demonstrates that, in fine, the Framers were wise political scientists.' (Henry J. Abraham, James Hart Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, Emeritus, University of Virginia) 'I know of no American historian steeped as deeply and intelligently in the formation of the U.S. Constitution as S. Slonim, the distinguished Israeli scholar. This collection of Professor Slonim's superbessays on the Founding Era confirms his status as a remarkable independent thinker. I view this book as a must read for everyone interested in constitution-making in the United States and other nations. Slonim's emphasis on federal-state relations as the central theme of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 is an eye-opening, persuasive exploration of an often-ignored key to an understanding of the U.S. Constitution.' (Gerald Gunther, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School).
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