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m -=<N CD Constitutional Law of the United States: Cases and Materials Professor David Schneiderman. (Winter 2016) These materials are distributed solely for use by students in the Paculty of Law, University of Toronto UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Constitutional Law of the United States: Cases and Materials Professor David Schneiderman (Winter 2016) These materials are distributed solely for use by students in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto ] UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/constitutionallaOOschn Table of Contents Introduction The U.S. Constitution. 1-5 Articles of Confederation.5-1 2 Resolution Of The General Assembly Of Virginia, January 21,1 786.1 2 Proceedings Of Commissioners To Remedy Defects Of The Federal Government.1 2 Resolution of the Federal Convention Submitting the Constitution to Congress.1 3 Resolution of Congress of September Submitting the Constitution to the Several States.14 James Madison, Federalist No. 10.14-17 James Madison, Federalist No. 51.17-18 The First and Second Banks of the United States Debates over First Bank of the US (Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall).1 8-24 Louisiana Purchase.24-25 The Second Bank; Madison's Veto; McCulloch v, Maryland. 26-36 Spencer Roane's "Hampden" Essay.36-37 Jackson's Veto Message.37-40 Freedom of Expression andStates Rights Elkins & McKitrick, 'The Age of Federalism'.40-41 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.41 -43 The Marshall Court Constitutional Revolution of 1 800: Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers'.43-44 Stuart v. Laird.44-45 Marbury v. Madison.45-52 Jefferson to Johnson.52 Rationales for Judicial Review Note: Martin v. Hunter's Lessee.52-53 Note: Cohens v. Virginia.53-54 Alexander Bickel, 'The Least Dangerous Branch'.54-56 Robert A. Dahl, 'Decision-Making In A Democracy'.56-57 Limits on Federal Judicial Power Standing: Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency.57-58 Political Questions: Baker v. Carr; Nixon v. United States.58-60 The Regulation of Commerce Gibbons v. Ogden.60-66 Note: Wilson v. Black Bird Creek Marsh Co.66 The Taney Court and the Civil War, 1835-1865 Dred Scott v. Sandford.66-79 Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.79-80 Congressional Authority over Territories: Dred Scott v. Sandford.80-81 Judicial Supremacy and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.81 -85 Reconstruction Mississippi Black Code, 1 865 85 Civil Rights Act of 1 866.85 Andrew Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1 866.85-86 Civil Rights Act of 1 870.86 The Slaughter House Cases.87-95 Note: United States v. Cruikshank.95-96 Note: United States v. Reese.96 The Civil Rights Cases.96-104 Plessy v. Ferguson .104-09 Note: United States v. Harris.1 09 Civil Rights Act of 1 871 .109 Note: Ex Parte Yarbrough.110 Era of Substantive Due Process Cooley, 'Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations'.110 Munn v. Illinois.110-12 Lochner v. New York.11 2-16 Note: Allgeyer v. Louisiana.11 6 Note: Muller v. Oregon.11 6-1 7 Note: Coppage v. Kansas.117-18 Note: Adkins v. Children's Hospital.118 Regulation of Commerce in the Nineteenth Century Note: United States v. DeWitt.11 8-19 Note: Southern Railway v. United States.119 Champion v. Ames.11 9-22 Hammer v. Dagenhart.1 22-25 The Spending Power in the Nineteenth Century: United States v. Butler Binaries.1 25-26 Binaries: Note: United States v. E.C. Knight Co.1 26 Notes: Carter v. Carter Coal Co; Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States.1 26-27 WWI and the First Amendment Notes: Schenck v. United States; Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten.1 27-28 Notes: Debs v United States; Abrams v. United States.1 28-30 Notes: Gitlow v. New York ; Whitney v. California.1 30-32 Notes: Dennis v. United States; Brandenburg v. Ohio.1 32-33 Modern Doctrine of Economic Due Process Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Radio Address, 1 937.1 33-34 West Coast Hotel v. Parrish.1 34-35 U.S. Carotene Products.1 35-37 John Hart Ely, 'Democracy and Distrust'.1 37-38 Williamson v. Lee Optical.1 38-39 Post New-Deal Federal Commerce Power NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel.1 39-40 U.S. v. Darby.140-42 Wickard v. Filburn.1 42-43 A Note on Constitutional Revolutions Bruce Ackerman, 'We the People: Foundations'.143 J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson, 'Understanding the Constitutional Revolution' 143-44 Civil Rights Act Again Gerald Gunther, 'Letter to the Department of Justice'.1 44 The Civil Rights Act, 1 964.1 44 Heart of Atlanta v. U.S.144-45 Katzenbach v. McClung.1 45 Political Safeguards of Federalism Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Authority.145-46 Modern Limits on Federal Power U.S. v. Lopez.146-60 U.S. v. Morrison.1 60 Raich v. Gonzales.1 61 National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.1 62-65 Enforcement Clause Authority City of Boerne v. Flores.165-73 Note: United States v. Morrison.1 73-74 Spending Authority South Dakota v. Dole.1 74-75 The Tenth Amendment Printz v. United States.1 76-77 Implied Limits on State Power: Dormant Commerce Clause Lawrence H. Tribe, 'American Constitutional Law'.1 77 The Constitutional Treatment of Race The NACCP Litigation Campaign: W.E.B. Dubois, "Segregation".1 77-78 W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, "Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?".1 78-79 Chas. H. Thompson, "Court Action Only Reasonable Alternative'.1 79 Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada.179-80 Fisher v. Hurst.1 80-81 The Petitioner's Brief in Sweatt v. Painter.1 81 Sweatt v. Painter Note.181 -82 McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents Note .1 82-83 Brown v. Board of Education (1).1 83-86 Derrick A. Bell, Jr., 'Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma'.... 1 86 Objections: Richard Davis' oral argument in Briggs v. Elliott.1 87 'A Declaration of Constitutional Principles' (The Southern Manifesto).1 87-88 Bolling v. Sharpe.188-89 Can Courts bring About Social Change? Gerald N. Rosenberg, 'The Hollow Hope'.1 89 Michael J. Klarman, 'From Jim Crow to Civil Rights'.1 89-90 Brown v. Board of Education (II).1 90-91 Cooper v. Aaron.1 91 -92 Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics'.1 92-93 Indirect Discrimination Washington v. Davis.1 93-97 Reva Siegel, 'Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects' Discussion.197-98 Note: Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney.1 98 A ffirma tive A ction The Bakke Case.198-202 Grutter v. Bollinger.202-1 0 Note: Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.210-11 Sex Discrimination Early History: Note: Bradwell v. Illinois.211 Note: Muller v. Oregon.211 Note: Adkins v. Children's Hospital.212 Second Wave Roots: Pauli Murray and Mary 0. Eastwood, 'Jane Crow and the Law'.21 2 Note: Reed v. Reed.21 2 Wendy W. Williams, 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Equal Protection Clause'.21 3 Frontiero v. Richardson.21 3-17 Note: Craig v. Boren.21 7-18 Note: Califano v. Goldfard.218 Note: Orr v. Orr.21 8-19 Note: United States v. Virginia (The VMI Case).21 9-20 Intermediate Scrutiny: Disability City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center.220-26 Intermediate Scrutiny: Sexual Orientation Romer v. Evans .226-31 US v. Windsor.231-34 Implied Fundamental Rights: The Family The Family: Note: Meyer v. Nebraska.234 Note: Pierce v. Society of Sisters .235 Note: Skinner v. Oklahoma.235 Griswold v. Connecticut.235-41 Implied Fundamental Rights: Abortion Roe v. Wade .241 -49 Note: City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health.249-50 Planned Parenthood v. Casey.250-74 Note: Gonzales v. Carhart.274 Sexual Liberty Bowers v. Hardwick.274-81 Adam Liptak, 'Exhibit A for a Major Shift: Justices' Gay Clerks'.282-83 Lawrence v. Texas .283-95 Obergefell v. Hodges.296-98 Executive Power During War Time Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer.298-307 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.307-24 Congressional War Powers Joint Resolution Concerning the War Powers of Congress and the President.324-25 President Nixon's Veto of the War Powers Resolution.325-26 Authorization for Use of Military Force.326 Peter Beinart, 'Why Won't the GOP Declare War on ISIS?'.326-25