Limit search to available items
822 results found. Sorted by relevance | date | title .
Book Cover
E-book
Author Fruchtman, Jack

Title American Constitutional History
Published Wiley, 2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Contents Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Structure of the Book; Part 1: The New Republic, 1781-1828; 1 Ideological Origins of the New Republic; The Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention; Ratification and the Bill of Rights; 2 Representative and Constitutional Democracy; Judicial Review, Judicial Duty; Economic Policy in the New Republic; 3 Nationalization of the Constitution and Executive Power; Part 2: The Slave Republic, 1789-1877; 4 Commerce, Nullification, and Slavery; Other Economic Rulings; The Nullification Controversy; Dred Scott
5 Civil War and ReconstructionLincoln and War; Reconstruction; 6 Rights and Privileges; Privileges and Immunities; Women's Rights; Persecution of Newly Freed Slaves; Part 3: The Free Market Republic, 1877-1937; 7 The Development of Substantive Due Process; Procedural Due Process; Substantive Due Process; Restraint of Trade in the Free Market Era; Liberty of Contract; Regulating Industry; The Great Depression; 8 Civil Rights After Reconstruction; Equality and African-Americans; Parents and Educational Rights; The Right to be Let Alone; 9 The Re-emergence of Executive Power
Leadership and the PresidencyAmerica and World War I; Criminal Anarchy and Criminal Syndicalism in the 1920s; Part 4: The Welfare State Republic, 1937-1995; 10 Advocates and Enemies of Social Welfare; The Court Changes; New Social Welfare Programs; 11 The Growth of Civil Liberties; Free Expression; Free Press; Religious Establishments; Criminal Suspects and Capital Punishment; Privacy; 12 The Civil Rights Movement; School Desegregation; Civil and Voting Rights; Strict Scrutiny and Affirmative Action in Higher Education; Affirmative Action in Government Contracts
Women's Rights and Affirmative Action13 Expanding Presidential Power; Presidential Power and Japanese Internments; Military Tribunals; Vietnam and its Aftermath; Re-emergence of a Powerful Executive; Part 5: The Contemporary Republic, 1995-2013; 14 Federal Commerce Power and Economic Regulation; Narrowing Federal Commerce Power; Health-care Reform; 15 Rights, Liberties, and Judicial Doctrines; Affirmative Action and Education; Campaign Finance; The Right to Bear Arms; Capital Punishment; The Right to Privacy; Religious Establishments; 16 Executive Authority and Terrorism
Protecting America in an Era of TerrorismWars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Executive Power Under Barack Obama; Epilogue; Government and the Economy; Government and Individual and Civil Rights; Executive Power; A Republic if you can Keep it; Bibliography; Prologue; Part 1: The New Republic, 1781-1828; Part 2: The Slave Republic, 1789-1877; Part 3: The Free Market Republic, 1877-1937; Part 4: The Welfare State Republic, 1937-1995; Part 5: The Contemporary Republic, 1995-2013; Epilogue; Index; End User License Agreement
Notes Print version record
Subject Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781119141778
111914177X