This concise, accessible text by historian Michael Benedict provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. The fourth edition is updated to include the 2016 election, the Trump administration, the 2020 election, and the first activities of the Biden administration.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: The American Constitution and American Constitutional History
English Origins of American ConstitutionalismColonial Origins of American ConstitutionalismThe American RevolutionEstablishing New State and Federal ConstitutionsConstitutional Issues in the Early RepublicJudicial Review, Nationalism, and State SovereigntyAndrew Jackson, Democracy, and "State Rights"Slavery and the ConstitutionThe Constitution and the Civil WarReconstruction and the ConstitutionThe Industrial State, Victorian Moralism, Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism, and State RightsThe Progressive EraLiberal versus Conservative Constitutionalism in the 1920sThe New Deal and the ConstitutionLiberal ConstitutionalismLiberal Constitutionalism and EqualityCurbing Presidential PowerThe Revival of Conservative ConstitutionalismThe Supreme Court and Conservative ConstitutionalismThe Erosion of Constitutional ComityThe Conservative Court, the Constitution and Judicial SupremacyPresidentialism and the Security StateConstitution WarsNEW CHAPTER 24: Constitutional Crisis
Appendix A Articles of Confederation
Appendix B Constitution of the United States
Appendix C Justices of the United States Supreme Court
Appendix D Tables of Cases
Index
