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?
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Reflections on constitutional law by George Anastaplo. ISBN 9780813191560. Published by University Press of Kentucky in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
