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Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center

Lee Epstein
Thomas G. Walker

A Short Course

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  • I. THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
  • 1. The Living Constitution
  • 2. Understanding the Supreme Court
  • II. INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
  • 3. The Judiciary
  • 4. The Legislature
  • 5. The Executive
  • III. NATION-STATE RELATIONS
  • 6. Federalism
  • 7. The Commerce Power
  • 8. The Power to Tax and Spend
  • IV. ECONOMIC LIBERTIES
  • 9. The Contract Clause
  • 10. Economic Substantive Due Process
  • 11. The Takings Clause
  • V. CIVIL LIBERTIES
  • 12. Religion: Exercise and Establishment
  • 13. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
  • 14. Freedom of the Press
  • 15. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 16. The Right to Privacy
  • VI. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED
  • 17. Investigations and Evidence
  • 18. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
  • VII. CIVIL RIGHTS
  • 19. Discrimination
  • 20. Voting and Representation

Cases

Prior Restraint

  • New York Times v. United States

 

The Media and Special Rights

  • Houchins v. KQED, Inc.
  • Zurcher v. Stanford Daily

 

The Boundaries of Free Press: Obscenity and Libel

  • Butler v. Michigan 
  • Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts (no. 37) and Associated Press v. Walker (no. 150) 
  • Gertz v. Welch 
  • Jacobellis v. Ohio 
  • Memoirs v. Massachusetts 
  • Paris Adult Theatre v. Slaton 
  • Roth v. United States 
  • Time, Inc. v. Firestone 

 

New Methods of Expression: the Internet

  • Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition 
  • United States v. Williams 
  • Ashcroft, Attorney General v. American Civil Liberties Union 
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