A companion to the United States Constitution and its amendments
Record details
- ISBN: 0313380090 (ebook)
- ISBN: 9780313380099 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0313380082 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780313380082 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xvi, 311 p. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 5th ed.
- Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 11. The Post-Civil War Amendments--Amendments 13-15 -- Background -- The Thirteenth Amendment and the end of slavery -- Citizenship provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Three important guarantees -- Supreme Court decisions limiting the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Brown and the rebirth of the Fourteenth Amendment -- School busing and affirmative action programs -- Equal protection and gender-based classifications -- Equal protection and other classifications -- Equal protection and legislative apportionment -- A rebirth of the due process clause? -- Reversing the three-fifths clause -- Restrictions on former rebels -- Valid and invalid public debts -- Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment -- The Fifteenth Amendment -- The lesson of the postwar Amendments -- References and suggestions for further study -- 12. The Progressive Era Amendments--Amendments 16-19 -- The Sixteenth Amendment and the national income tax -- The Seventeenth Amendment and the election of U.S. Senators -- The Eighteenth Amendment and the national prohibition of alcohol -- The Nineteenth Amendment and women's suffrage -- References and suggestions for further study -- 13. The Recent Amendments--Amendments 20-27 -- The Lame-Duck Amendment -- Presidential vacancies -- The repeal of national alcohol prohibition -- A limit on Presidential terms of office -- Electoral votes for the District of Columbia -- The prohibition of poll taxes -- Vacancies and Disabilities -- Vacancies in the Vice Presidency -- Cases of presidential disability -- Eighteen year-olds and the right to vote -- A Twenty-seventh Amendment? -- Author's postscript on the American future -- References and suggestions for further study -- Reading Supreme Court decisions -- Locating cases and understanding citations -- Briefing cases -- Fifty case names and decisions -- Glossary -- Highlights if Constitutional history -- Us. Supreme Court Justices -- Appendix 1. The Constitution of the United States -- Appendix 2. The Declaration of Independence -- Appendix 3: The Articles of Confederation -- Index. |
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Subject: | Constitutional law United States |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | KF 4550 .V55 2010 | 30540514 | General Collection | Available | - |