Description: I. THE SETTING AND THE JUSTICES. 1. Constitutional Law and the Supreme Court. 2. The Political and Historical Setting of the Development of Constitutional Law - 1789-1937. 3. The Political and Historical Setting of the Development of Constitutional Law - 1937-1991. 4. the Justices-Their Appointments, Backgrounds, Voting Patterns, and Patterns of Group Interaction - 1789-1937. 5. The Justices-Their Appointments, Backgrounds, Voting Patterns, and Patterns of Group Interaction - 1937-1991. II. THE WORKINGS OF GOVERNMENT AND OF THE ECONOMY. 6. Judicial Review and the Exercise of Judicial Power. 7. Powers of the President. 8. Powers of Congress Under the Commerce Clause. 9. Powers of Congress: Taxing, Spending, Monetary. 10. Federalism. 11. The Contract Clause. 12. Due Process: Economic Rights. III. CIVIL LIBERTIES. 13. Political Free Speech and Association. 14. Freedom of the Press, Commercial Free Speech, Obscenity. 15. The Religion Guarantees. 16. Fourth and Fifth Amendment Issues. 17. Sixth and Eighth Amendment Issues. IV. EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS. 18. Racial Equality. 19. Sexual Equality. 20. Political and other Equality Claims. The Constitution of the United States. Additional Cases 1990.

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