Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System

, by Braveman, Daan; Banks, William C.; Smolla, Rodney A.

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Summary

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This concise & stimulating casebook incorporates new developments & textual discussion of the impact of constitutional cases & doctrine. Traditional in scope, Annual supplement.

The Origins: ``We the People'' --- Where Does Power Reside in Our Constitutional System?

Introduction

(1)

An Historical Prologue to the Constitution

(4)

Pre-Colonial Constitutional Theory

(1)

From the Colonies to the Convention

(2)

The Constitutional Convention of 1787

(2)

Conceptions of Sovereignty: The National Government, the States, and the People

(16)

A Case Study of the Term Limits Movement

(1)

U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)

(13)

Notes and Questions

(2)

The Final Word? --- The Judicial Review Doctrine

(10)

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

(8)

Notes and Questions

(1)

Judicial Review of Executive Action

(11)

United States v. Nixon (1974)

(6)

Notes and Questions

(3)

Problem A

(1)

Judicial Review of State Action

(4)

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)

(4)

Notes and Questions

(1)

Contemporary Sovereignty Problems

(6)

Cooper v. Aaron (1958)

(3)

Notes and Questions

(1)

Problem B

(2)

Separation of Powers: Constitutional Checks and Balances

An Historical Overview

(7)

The English Heritage

(1)

Bringing Separation Theory to America

(3)

From the Convention to Current Doctrine

(2)

The Court Walks a Tightrope: Accommodating Separation's Diverse Goals

(1)

How Are Separation of Powers Disputes Decided? --- An Introductory Case Study

(15)

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)

(12)

Notes and Questions

(2)

Problem A

(1)

Limits on the Elected Branches: Oversight and Accountability in the Administrative State

(72)

Introduction

(1)

Delegation of Legislative Power

(2)

Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935)

(4)

Notes and Questions

(1)

Yakus v. United States (1944)

(3)

Note: A Revival of the Delegation Doctrine?

(1)

Too Much Oversight: the Legislative Veto

(1)

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)

(18)

Notes and Questions

105

(1)

Control Over Prosecution: The Independent Counsel

106

(1)

Morrison v. Olson (1988)

106

(16)

Notes and Questions

122

(1)

Problem B

123

(1)

Line Item Veto

123

(1)

Clinton v. City of New York (1998)

123

(12)

Notes and Questions

135

(1)

Presidential Immunity from Lawsuit

136

(1)

Clinton v. Jones (1997)

136

(11)

Notes and Questions

147

(1)

Limits on the Elected Branches: Foreign Relations and the War Powers

147

(18)

Foreign Relations Powers

147

(1)

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936)

147

(3)

Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981)

150

(5)

Notes and Questions

155

(1)

War Powers

156

(1)

Prize Cases (1863)

157

(1)

Notes and Questions

158

(1)

War Powers Resolution

159

(3)

Notes and Questions

162

(1)

Problem C

163

(2)

Limits on Judicial Power --- the Justiciability Doctrines

165

(34)

Introduction

165

(3)

The Gulf War: A Case Study

168

(1)

Dellums v. Bush (1990)

168

(8)

Ange v. Bush (1990)

176

(5)

Notes and Questions

181

(1)

Political Questions

181

(1)

Notes and Questions

182

(7)

Standing to Sue

189

(1)

Notes and Questions --- Citizen Plaintiffs

189

(3)

Notes and Questions --- Taxpayer Standing

192

(2)

Notes and Questions --- Congressional Plaintiffs

194

(3)

Ripeness/Mootness

197

(1)

Notes and Questions

197

(2)

A Protection for Congress: The Speech or Debate Clause

199

(13)

Gravel v. United States (1972)

199

(12)

Notes and Questions

211

(1)

Problem D

212

(1)

Congressional Control Over Jurisdiction of Federal Courts

212

(5)

Ex Parte McCardle (1868)

212

(2)

Notes and Questions

214

(2)

Problem E

216

(1)

Federalism Limits on Federal Courts

Historical Overview

217

(12)

The What and Why of Federalism

217

(2)

The Constitutional Convention

219

(1)

Federalism Concerns and the National Legislature

219

(1)

Federalism Concerns and the National Judiciary

220

(1)

Federalism Concerns and the National Executive

221

(1)

The Ratification Debates

222

(2)

Federalism From the 1780s to the 1990s

224

(1)

The Pre-Civil War Period

225

(1)

From the Civil War to the New Deal

226

(1)

Modern Federalism

227

(1)

The Role of the Tenth Amendment and ``Considerations of Federalism'' in Deciding Cases

228

(1)

Introduction: Federalism and the Judiciary

229

(2)

Eleventh Amendment

231

(48)

Hans v. Louisiana (1890)

231

(3)

Notes and Questions

234

(1)

Ex Parte Young

234

(4)

Notes and Questions

238

(1)

Edelman v. Jordan (1974)

238

(7)

Notes and Questions

245

(4)

Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)

249

(15)

Notes and Questions

264

(1)

Problem A

264

(1)

Alden v. Maine (1999)

265

(13)

Notes and Questions

278

(1)

Abstention

279

(8)

Railroad Commission of Texas v. Pullman Co. (1941)

279

(1)

Notes and Questions

280

(1)

Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux (1959)

281

(5)

Notes and Questions

286

(1)

Problem B

286

(1)

Remedies

287

(9)

Younger v. Harris (1971)

287

(4)

Notes and Questions

291

(1)

Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc. (1987)

292

(2)

Notes and Questions

294

(1)

Problem C

295

(1)

Supreme Court Review: Adequate and Independent State Grounds

296

(7)

Michigan v. Long (1983)

296

(5)

Notes and Questions

301

(2)

Federalism Limits on the Elected Branches and on the States

Introduction

303

(2)

Scope of Federal Power

305

(9)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

305

(7)

Notes and Questions

312

(1)

Problem A

313

(1)

Congressional Power to Regulate Interstate Commerce

314

(68)

The Emergence of Dual Sovereignty

314

(1)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

314

(3)

Notes and Questions

317

(1)

United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)

318

(3)

Notes and Questions

321

(2)

Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)

323

(4)

Notes and Questions

327

(1)

Problem B

327

(1)

The New Deal and Beyond

328

(1)

A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)

328

(4)

Notes and Questions

332

(3)

United States v. Darby (1941)

335

(3)

Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)

338

(3)

Notes and Questions

341

(1)

United States v. Lopez (1995)

342

(10)

Notes and Questions

352

(4)

Problem C

356

(1)

Tenth Amendment Limits on Congressional Power?

356

(1)

Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)

357

(4)

Notes and Questions

361

(1)

New York v. United States (1992)

362

(9)

Notes and Questions

371

(1)

Printz v. United States (1997)

371

(11)

Notes and Questions

382

(1)

Constitutional Limits on State Regulation of Commerce: The Dormant Commerce Clause

382

(31)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

384

(1)

Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia (1851)

385

(2)

Notes and Questions

387

(1)

Problem D

388

(1)

Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. (1970)

388

(2)

City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey (1978)

390

(4)

Notes and Questions

394

(1)

Maine v. Taylor (1986)

395

(5)

Notes and Questions

400

(5)

C & A Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown (1994)

405

(7)

Notes and Questions

412

(1)

Problem E

412

(1)

Public and Private Domain

Introduction

413

(8)

Prohibiting Governmental Encroachments on Individual Rights

421

(17)

The Bill of Rights

421

(1)

Barron v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (1833)

421

(2)

Notes and Questions

423

(1)

The Civil War Amendments

424

(1)

Slaughter-House Cases (1873)

424

(12)

Notes and Questions

436

(1)

Problem A

437

(1)

Prohibiting Encroachments on Individual Rights By Private Parties: The State Action Doctrine

438

(33)

The Civil Rights Cases (1883)

438

(7)

Notes and Questions

445

(2)

Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Company (1974)

447

(5)

Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks (1978)

452

(7)

Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. (1982)

459

(2)

Notes and Questions

461

(8)

Problem B

469

(2)

Exclusion and Equal Protection

Introduction

471

(21)

``We the People''

471

(1)

Johnson v. McIntosh (1823)

471

(3)

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

474

(11)

Notes and Questions

485

(2)

Thurgood Marshall, Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution

487

(3)

Exclusion and the Equal Protection Clause

490

(2)

Social and Economic Classification: Traditional Approach

492

(31)

Railway Express Agency v. New York (1949)

493

(4)

Notes and Questions

497

(1)

Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia (1976)

497

(4)

Notes and Questions

501

(1)

San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)

502

(13)

Lyng v. Castillo (1986)

515

(3)

Notes and Questions

518

(1)

Washakie County School District Number One v. Herschler (1980)

519

(3)

Notes and Questions

522

(1)

Problem A

523

(1)

Racial Classification

523

(55)

What Is Meant by ``Race?''

523

(1)

St. Francis College v. Al Khazraji (1987)

523

(2)

Notes and Questions

525

(1)

Constitutional Standard

526

(1)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

526

(5)

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

531

(6)

Notes and Questions

537

(1)

Brown v. Board of Education [Brown I] (1954)

538

(3)

Notes and Questions

541

(1)

Brown v. Board of Education [Brown II] (1955)

542

(1)

Notes and Questions

543

(1)

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

544

(2)

Palmore v. Sidoti (1984)

546

(3)

Notes and Questions

549

(1)

Discriminatory Intent or Impact?

549

(1)

Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)

549

(1)

Washington v. Davis (1976)

550

(5)

Notes and Questions

555

(3)

Problem B

558

(1)

Affirmative Action

558

(1)

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena (1995)

558

(16)

Notes and Questions

574

(4)

Problem C

578

(1)

Gender Classification

578

(39)

Introduction

578

(1)

Geduldig v. Aiello (1974)

578

(2)

Notes and Questions

580

(2)

Constitutional Standard

582

(1)

Goesaert v. Cleary (1948)

582

(1)

Notes and Questions

583

(1)

Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)

584

(5)

Craig v. Boren (1976)

589

(6)

Notes and Questions

595

(6)

United States v. Virginia (1996)

601

(9)

Notes and Questions

610

(1)

Discriminatory Intent or Impact?

611

(1)

Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney (1979)

611

(6)

Notes and Questions

617

(1)

Conclusion

617

(12)

City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)

617

(10)

Notes and Questions

627

(1)

Problem D

627

(2)

Economic and Social Rights

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Entrepreneurial Liberty

629

(44)

Due Process

629

(1)

Lochner v. New York (1905)

629

(7)

Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. (1955)

636

(2)

Notes and Questions

638

(3)

Takings

641

(1)

Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922)

641

(5)

Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York (1978)

646

(3)

Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel (1998)

649

(11)

Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994)

660

(9)

Notes and Questions

669

(3)

Problem A

672

(1)

Zoning and Social Control

673

(30)

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. (1926)

673

(4)

Edwards v. California (1941)

677

(3)

Saenz v. Roe (1999)

680

(10)

Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas (1974)

690

(6)

Moore v. City of East Cleveland (1977)

696

(5)

Notes and Questions

701

(1)

Problem B

702

(1)

Privacy and the Right to be Let Alone

703

(69)

Buck v. Bell (1927)

703

(2)

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

705

(8)

Notes and Questions

713

(3)

Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)

716

(9)

Notes and Questions

725

(3)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

728

(12)

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)

740

(11)

Notes and Questions

751

(2)

Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)

753

(18)

Notes and Questions

771

(1)

Problem C

771

(1)

Entitlements and the Negative Constitution

772

(21)

Dandridge v. Williams (1970)

772

(6)

Harris v. McRae (1980)

778

(7)

DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989)

785

(7)

Notes and Questions

792

(1)

Due Process in the Administrative State

793

(16)

Goldberg v. Kelly (1970)

793

(3)

Board of Regents v. Roth (1972)

796

(3)

Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill (1985)

799

(5)

Notes and Questions

804

(2)

Problem D

806

(3)

Rights of Conscience and Expression

Introduction

809

(1)

Religion in the Public Arena

810

(56)

Free Exercise

810

(1)

Reynolds v. United States (1878)

810

(4)

Sherbert v. Verner (1963)

814

(6)

Employment Division, Department of Human Resources v. Smith (1990)

820

(9)

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah (1993)

829

(6)

Notes and Questions

835

(3)

Problem A

838

(1)

Establishment

839

(1)

Marsh v. Chambers (1983)

839

(10)

County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)

849

(13)

Notes and Questions

862

(3)

Problem B

865

(1)

Expression in the Public Arena

866

(129)

Introduction to Free Speech Theory

866

(3)

Speech and Lawless Activity

869

(1)

Schenck v. United States (1919)

869

(2)

Debs v. United States (1919)

871

(2)

Abrams v. United States (1919)

873

(5)

Whitney v. California (1927)

878

(5)

Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

883

(2)

Notes and Questions

885

(4)

Problem C

889

(1)

Vulgar, Graphic, Offensive, and Hate Speech

890

(1)

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

890

(2)

Cohen v. California (1971)

892

(4)

Texas v. Johnson (1989)

896

(11)

R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)

907

(15)

Notes and Questions

922

(2)

Obscenity

924

(1)

Miller v. California (1973)

924

(4)

Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973)

928

(7)

Notes and Questions

935

(1)

Problem D

936

(1)

Reputation and Privacy

937

(1)

New York Times Company v. Sullivan (1964)

937

(9)

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)

946

(6)

Notes and Questions

952

(1)

Prior Restraints

953

(1)

New York Times Company v. United States (1971)

953

(11)

Notes and Questions

964

(3)

Problem E

967

(1)

Content-Neutral Regulation of Speech

967

(1)

Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)

967

(5)

United States v. O'Brien (1968)

972

(4)

Notes and Questions

976

(3)

Problem F

979

(1)

Commercial Speech

979

(1)

44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996)

979

(14)

Notes and Questions

993

(2)

Conscience and Expression in Special Settings

995

(184)

Schools

995

(1)

Schools and the Religion Clauses

995

(1)

Everson v. Board of Education (1947)

995

(5)

Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School Dist. (1993)

1000

(6)

Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)

1006

(6)

Lee v. Weisman (1992)

1012

(14)

Notes and Questions

1026

(3)

Problem G

1029

(1)

Agostini v. Felton (1997)

1030

(11)

Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

1041

(5)

Notes and Questions

1046

(1)

Problem H

1046

(2)

Speech in Schools

1048

(1)

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

1048

(10)

Board of Education v. Pico (1982)

1058

(11)

Notes and Questions

1069

(1)

Problem I

1070

(2)

Universities

1072

(1)

Widmar v. Vincent (1981)

1072

(3)

Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of University of Virginia (1995)

1075

(15)

Problem J

1090

(1)

The Home

1090

(1)

Stanley v. Georgia (1969)

1090

(3)

Frisby v. Schultz (1988)

1093

(7)

City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994)

1100

(6)

Notes and Questions

1106

(2)

Government Employment

1108

(1)

Rankin v. McPherson (1987)

1108

(7)

Waters v. Churchill (1994)

1115

(9)

Notes and Questions

1124

(1)

Government Funding

1124

(1)

Rust v. Sullivan (1991)

1124

(7)

National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998)

1131

(12)

Notes and Questions

1143

(1)

Electronic Communication

1143

(1)

Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission (1969)

1143

(5)

Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)

1148

(7)

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1994)

1155

(4)

Notes and Questions

1159

(2)

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)

1161

(16)

Notes and Questions

1177

(2)

Access to and Protection From the Political Process

Introduction

1179

(1)

Equality and the Political Process: Electoral Districting and Reapportionment

1180

(30)

One Person, One Vote

1180

(1)

Reynolds v. Sims (1964)

1181

(6)

Notes and Questions

1187

(1)

Vote Dilution

1188

(1)

Note on Mobile v. Bolden (1980)

1188

(2)

Notes and Questions

1190

(1)

Reverse Vote Dilution

1191

(1)

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

1191

(13)

Notes and Questions

1204

(6)

Problem A

1210

(1)

The First Amendment and the Political Process: Campaign Spending and Patronage

1210

(18)

Campaign Spending

1210

(1)

Buckley v. Valeo (1976)

1210

(4)

Notes and Questions

1214

(2)

Problem B

1216

(1)

Patronage

1216

(1)

Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990)

1216

(12)

Notes and Questions

1228

(1)

Constitutional Limits on Direct Democracy: A Fundamental Right of Political Participation?

1228

(22)

Romer v. Evans (1996)

1228

(13)

Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. (1999)

1241

(9)

Notes and Questions

1250

(1)

Problem C

1250

(1)

Congressional Enforcement of Civil Rights

1250

(1)

City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

1250

(10)

Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank and United States (1999)

1260

(8)

Notes and Questions

1268

Appendix---The Constitution of the United States of America

(1)

Table of Cases

(1)

Index

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