CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I SYLLABUS The following shorthand has been used in listing reading assignments:
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I. INTRODUCTION
Assignment 1: | History and Overview of
the
Constitution The Constitution of the United States |
Text 1-13
Text 1471-1488 |
II. FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE POWERS & FEDERALISM
Assignment 1: | Express and Implied Federal Powers | Text 111-133 |
Assignment 2: | Pre-New Deal Commerce Clause - Early & Middle Years | Text 133-154 |
Assignment 3: | New Deal Commerce Clause - An Expansive View | Text 155-169 |
Assignment 4: | Modern Commerce Clause Taylor v. United States |
Text 169-206 |
Assignment 5: | The Taxing and Spending Powers |
Text 206-239 |
Assignment 6: | State Immunity from Federal Regulation | Text 245-267 |
Assignment 7: | State Sovereign Immunity
as a Limit on Federal Power Doctrinal Review of Section II - Executive Summary |
Text
267-277 |
III. LIMITATIONS ON STATE POWER & JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF THE INTERSTATE MARKET
Assignment 1: | Preemption Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine - The Early Cases |
Text 285-294 Text 295-300 |
Assignment 2: |
"Uniform National Standard" Test "Discrimination against Interstate Commerce" Test |
Text 300-306 Text 306-313 |
Assignment 3: | "Excessive Burden on
Interstate Commerce" Test |
Text 313-326 Text 326-334 |
Assignment 4: | The Market-Participant Exception
Article IV § 2 Privileges and Immunities Clause Doctrinal Review of Section III - Executive Summary |
Text
335-345
Text 353-360 Text 370-372 |
IV. FEDERAL EXECUTIVE POWERS
Assignment 1: | Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs |
Text 375-387 Text 387-404 |
Assignment 2: | President's Powers in Times of War Executive Privilege & Executive Immunity Trump v. Vance Doctrinal Review of Section IV - Executive Summary |
Text 414-428 Text 431-450 Supplement Text 450-451 |
V. FEDERAL JUDICIAL POWER & METHODS OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION
Assignment 1: | Judicial Review | Text 45-69 |
Assignment 2: | Obstacles to Judicial Review: Political Questions Rucho v. Common Cause |
Text 70-80 Supplement |
Assignment 3: | Obstacles to Judicial Review: Standing Hollingsworth v. Perry |
Text 85-100 |
Assignment 4: | Methods of Constitutional Interpretation
- 1 Originalism |
Bobbitt
3-24 |
Assignment 5: | Methods of Constitutional Interpretation - 2 Prudentialism |
Bobbitt 59-73 |
Assignment 6: | Methods of Constitutional Interpretation -3 An Illustrative Case: District of Columbia v. Heller Doctrinal Review of Section V - Executive Summary |
Text 106-110 |
VI. EQUAL PROTECTION
Assignment 1: | Distinctions &
Classifications
Equal Protection Analysis Chart Rationality Review Facial Discrimination against Minorities |
Text 737-740
Text 743-751 Text 762-772 |
Assignment 2: | Discriminatory Application of Facially Neutral Laws Discriminatory Effect or Purpose Village of Arlington Heights |
Text 772-777 Text 778-783 |
Assignment 3: | Race-Specific but Facially Symmetrical Laws | Text 783-798 |
Assignment 4: | Affirmative Action The Future of Affirmative Action |
Text 798-806 Text 818-825 |
Assignment 5: | Gender Discrimination | Text 841-853, 857-866 |
Assignment 6: | Disability Discrimination Same-Sex Marriage Discrimination
|
Text 876-883
|
Assignment 7: | The Right to Vote |
Text 897-914 |
Assignment 8: | Congress's
Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment
Doctrinal Review of Section VI - Executive Summaries |
Text 966-979
Text 751-752,
893-895, |