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    Constitutional law in a nutshell / by Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes.

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    • Title:Constitutional law in a nutshell / by Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes.
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    • Variant Title:Constitutional law
    • Author/Creator:Barron, Jerome A.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Dienes, C. Thomas.
    • Published/Created:St. Paul, MN : West, ©2013.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Constitutional law--United States.
    • Edition:8th ed.
    • Description:lxxii, 705 p. ; 19 cm.
    • Series:Nutshell series.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:0314281940
      9780314281944
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 ALLOCATION OF POWERS
      ch. 1 Judicial Review and Its Limits
      A. Foundations of Judicial Review
      1. Review of Federal Actions
      2. Review of State Actions
      B. Foundations of Federal Jurisdiction
      1. Constitutional Basis of Federal Jurisdiction
      2. Bases of Federal Court Jurisdiction
      3. Statutory Forms of Review
      C. Constitutional and Policy Limitations on Judicial Review
      1. Constitutional Limitations
      a. Bar of the Eleventh Amendment
      b. "Case or Controversy" Requirement
      2. Policy Limitations
      D. Specific Doctrines Limiting Judicial Review
      1. Who May Litigate?
      -The Problem of Standing
      a. Constitutional Requirements for Standing
      b. Federal Taxpayer Standing
      c. Citizen Standing
      d. Third Party Standing
      2. When Can Constitutional Litigation Be Brought? The Problem of Timing
      a. Rule Against Mootness
      b. Ripeness, Prematurity, and Abstractness
      3. What Can Be Litigated? The Political Question Doctrine
      ch. 2 National Legislative Powers
      A. Scope of Congressional Power
      B. Commerce Power
      1. Establishing the Foundations
      2. Using the Commerce Clause for Police Power Ends
      3. Stream of Commerce
      4. Affectation Doctrine
      C. Taxing Power
      D. Spending Power
      E. Intergovernmental Immunities
      ch. 3 State Power in American Federalism
      A. State Power to Regulate Commerce
      1. Nature of the Power
      2. Subject of the Regulation: The Cooley Doctrine
      3. Modem Approach: The Balancing of Interests
      a. Discrimination: Purpose, Means, Effects
      b. Undue Burdens
      -Ad Hoc Balancing
      4. State as Market Participant
      5. Interstate Privileges and Immunities
      B. When Congress Speaks
      1. Preemption
      2. Legitimization
      ch. 4 Congress and the Executive Power
      A. Domestic Arena
      1. Executive Lawmaking
      2. Executive Impoundment
      3. Delegation, the Legislative Veto, and the Line Item Veto
      4. Appointment and Removal
      5. Separation of Powers Generally
      B. Foreign Arena
      1. Allocating the Foreign Relations Power
      2. Treaties and Executive Agreements
      3. Allocating the War Power
      C. Promoting Executive Responsibility
      1. Executive Privilege
      2. Executive Immunity
      pt. 2 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
      ch. 5 Due Process of Law
      A. Process of Incorporation
      B. Substantive Due Process
      1. Traditional Substantive Due Process
      a. Early Rise and Demise of Economic Due Process
      b. Economic Regulation: Substantive Due Process Today
      c. Takings Alternative
      2. Substantive Due Process Revisited: Fundamental Personal Rights
      a. In General
      b. Contraception, Abortion and Sodomy
      c. Marital and Familial Rights
      d. Right to Care and Protection
      e. Right to Refuse Treatment
      f. No Right to Assisted Suicide
      g. Other Fundamental Rights
      C. Procedural Due Process
      1. Life, Liberty and Property Interests
      a. Property Interests
      b. Liberty Interests
      2. Process That Is Due
      ch. 6 Equal Protection
      A. Traditional Equal Protection
      B. New Equal Protection
      1. Classifying Traits
      a. Race and Ethnic Origins
      b. Alienage: The "Sometimes Suspect" Classification
      c. Gender Classification: Intermediate Review
      d. Illegitimacy Classification: Intermediate Review
      e. Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Preference
      f. Other Bases of Classification
      2. Fundamental Rights
      a. Interstate Travel
      b. Marriage and Family Life
      c. Voting
      d. Access to Justice
      e. Limits of Fundamental Rights
      ch. 7 Freedom of Expression
      A. Basic Doctrine
      1. Rationale of Speech Protection
      2. Doctrinal Overview
      a. Content Control v. Indirect Burdens
      b. Vagueness and Overbreadth
      c. Doctrine of Prior Restraint
      3. Clear and Present Danger Doctrine
      4. Symbolic Conduct
      5. Freedom of Association and Belief
      a. Source of the Right
      b. Membership and Associational Action
      c. Group Registration and Disclosure
      d. Public Benefits and Government Employment
      e. Right Not to Associate
      - Compelled Speech
      B. Doctrine Applied
      1. Expression in the Local Forum
      a. Controlling Speech Content: Inciting, Provocative and Offensive Language
      b. Rejecting New Categories of Unprotected Expression
      c. Access to Public Property
      -The Public Forum
      d. Access to Private Property
      e. Licensing, Permits and Injunctions
      2. Commercial Speech
      a. From Valentine to Virginia Pharmacy
      b. Advent of the Central Hudson Test
      c. Lawyer Advertising
      3. Defamation and Privacy
      a. Rise of the Public Law of Defamation
      b. Modem Public Law of Defamation
      c. Identifying the Public Figure Plaintiff
      d. Public Law of Privacy
      4. Obscenity and Indecency
      5. Freedom of the Press
      a. Newsgathering
      b. Public Access to the Media
      6. Speech in the Electoral Process
      7. Government-Funded Speech
      ch. 8 Freedom of Religion
      A. Establishment Clause
      1. Public Aid to Religion
      2. Religion in the Schools
      3. Establishment Outside the Schools
      B. Free Exercise of Religion
      ch. 9 State Action
      A. Introduction
      B. Framing the State Action Doctrine
      C. Finding State Action
      1. Public Functions
      2. Significant Involvement/Joint Participation
      3. Encouragement, Authorization and Approval
      ch. 10 Congressional Legislation in Aid of Civil Rights and Liberties
      A. Sources of Congressional Power
      B. Enforcing the Thirteenth Amendment
      C. Enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment
      1. Congress' Remedial Powers
      2. Congress' Substantive Powers
      3. Reaching Private Conduct
      D. Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment.
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