Texts
Hall, Kermit, et al., eds. American Legal History: Cases and Materials. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Garraty, John A., ed. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution. 2nd ed. New York: Perennial Library, 1987.
Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Greenberg, Ellen. The Supreme Court Explained. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Additional Readings
The Constitution.
Adams, Abigail. “Correspondence with John (1776).” In The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation. Edited by Diane Ravitch. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990, pp. 30-32.
Benedict, Michael Les. “The Supreme Court and Conservative Constitutionalism.” In The Blessings of Liberty: A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1996, pp. 356-366 and 369-387.
Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. “‘The Speech We Hate’: The Romantic Appeal of First Amendment Absolutism: Does Defending Nazis Really Strengthen the System of Free Speech?” In Must We Defend Nazis?: Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment. New York: New York University Press, 1997, pp. 149-162.
Dionne, Jr., E. J., and William Kristol, eds. Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
Filene, Peter G. In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America. Chicago, Ill.: I.R. Dee, 1998, pp. 11-46.
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974, pp. 25-49.
Hoff, Joan. Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. New York: New York University Press, 1991, pp. 27-31, and 377-382.
Irons, Peter. “Gordon Hirabayashi v. United States.” In The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin, 1990, pp. 37-62.
Johnson, Lyndon. “Howard University Address.” In The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation. Edited By Diane Ravitch. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990, pp. 340-342.
Kafka, Franz. “Before the Law.” In The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories. New York : Schocken Books, 1988/1948, pp. 148-150.
Kafka, Franz. “In the Penal Colony.” In The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories. New York : Schocken Books, 1988/1948, pp. 191-227.
Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1980, pp. 137-155.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. “‘The Laws,’ from China Men (1980).” In The Faber Book of America. Edited by Christopher Ricks and William L. Vance. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992, pp. 432-437.
Leonard, Arthur S. “From Bowers v. Hardwick to Romer v. Evans: Lesbian and Gay Rights in the U.S. Supreme Court.” In Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights. Edited by John D’Emilio, William B. Turner, and Urvashi Vaid. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 57-77.
Leuchtenburg, William E. “The Constitutional Revolution of 1937.” In The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 213-236.
Mackinnon, Catharine A. “Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Descrimination.” In Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers. Edited by Linda LeMoncheck and James P. Sterba. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 42-49.
Marshall, Thurgood. “Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.” Harvard Law Review 101, no. 1, November 1987, 1-5.
Meese, Edwin. “A Jurisprudence of Original Intention (1985).” In Sources in American Constitutional History. Compiled by Michael Les Benedict. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1996, pp. 249-253.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89. 3rd. ed. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. 129-156.
Parker, Alison M. Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997, pp. 134-157.
Polenberg, Richard. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Clear and Present Danger.” In Major Problems in American Constitutional History. Edited by Kermit L. Hall. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1992, pp. 174-182.
Rehnquist, William H. All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime. New York: Knopf, 1998, pp. 184-211 and 218-225.
Schultz, Vicki. “Sex Is the Least of It: Let’s Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex.” In Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers. Edited by Linda LeMoncheck and James P. Sterba. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 269-273.
“The Slaves’ Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts (1774).” In The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation. Edited by Diane Ravitch. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990, pp. 16-17.
Strum, Philippa. When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1999, pp. 1-35.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present. Rev. ed. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995, pp. 89-101.
Court Cases
Case Brief Template (PDF)
Abrams et al. v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919).
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200 (1995).
Baehr et al. v. Lewin, 852 P.2d 44 (1993).
Baker v. State of Vermont, 744 A.2d 865 (Vt. 1999).
Board of Ed. of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994).
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986).
Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 (1873).
Brown v. Board of Ed. of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. ____ (2000).
Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942).
Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co., 36 U.S. 420 (1837).
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831).
City of Boerne v. Flores, 117 S. Ct. 2157 (1997).
Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997).
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 621 (1990).
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819).
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856).
Engel et al. v. Vitale et al., 370 U.S. 421 (1962).
Ex parte Endo, 323 U.S. 273 (1944).
Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448 (1980).
Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824).
Gideon v. Wainright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963).
Gratz v. Bollinger, 122 F.Supp.2d 811 (2003).
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).
Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943).
Hopwood v. Texas, 84 F.3d 720 (5th Cir. 1996), cert. denied, 116 S. Ct. 2581 (1996).
In re Debs, 294 U.S. 564 (1895).
Johnson v. M’Intosh, 21 U.S. 543 (1823).
Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County, 480 U.S. 616 (1987).
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905).
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967).
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992).
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819).
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986).
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).
Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875).
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908).
Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1877).
National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 434 U.S. 1327 (1977).
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Co., 301 U.S. 1 (1937).
Northern Securities Co. et al. v. U.S., 193 U.S. 197 (1904).
Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922).
Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 219 (1937).
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842).
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996).
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935).
Schenck v. U.S., 249 U.S. 47 (1919).
Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948).
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950).
Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949).
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989).
The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883).
The Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873).
United States v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144 (1938).
United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995).
United States v. One Book Entitled “Ulysses,” 8 F.Supp. 182 (1933).
United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U.S. 644 (1929).
University of California Regents v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
U.S. v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974).
U.S. v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996).
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 US 208 (1972).
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832).
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886).
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. ___ (2002).
