Contents:
Sources of power and restraint: Supreme Court in the constitutional system; Congress and the development of national power; Constitutional underpinnings of the presidency;
Constitution and the modern administrative state;
Dynamics of the federal system;
Civil rights and liberties:
Constitutional sources of civil rights and liberties;
Property rights and economic freedom;
Expressive;
freedom and the first amendment;
Religious liberty and church-state relations;
Constitution and criminal justice;
Personal autonomy and the constitutional right of privacy;
Equal protection and the antidiscrimination principle;
Elections, representation, and voting rights
Appendixes: Constitution of the United States of America; Chronology of justices of the United States Supreme Court; Supreme Court justices by appointing president, state appointed from, and political party; Glossary.