Introduction. Putting the people back in "We the people" / Michael C. Dorf;
Part I: The structural constitution:
Chapter 1 The story of Marbury v. Madison : making defeat look like victory / Michael W. McConnell;
Chapter 2 The story of McCulloch : banking on national power / Daniel A. Farber;
Chapter 3 The story of Wickard v. Filburn : agriculture, aggregation, and commerce / Jim Chen;
Chapter 4 The story of Bush v. Gore : the paradox of judicial activism / Michael J. Gerhardt;
Part II: Equality and the Constitution:
Chapter 5 The story of Dred Scott : originalism's forgotten past / Christopher L. Eisgruber;
Chapter 6 The story of Plessy v. Ferguson : the death and resurrection of racial formalism / Cheryl I. Harris;
Chapter 7 The story of Korematsu : the Japanese-American cases / Neil Gotanda;
Chapter 8 The story of Baker v. Carr / Stephen Ansolabehere and Samuel Issacharoff;
Chapter 9 The story of Lochner v. New York : impediment to the growth of the regulatory state / David E. Bernstein;
Part III: Liberty and the Constitution:
Chapter 10 Contested ground : the story of Roe v. Wade and its impact on American society / Lucinda M. Finley;
Chapter 11 The story of Whitney v. California : the power of ideas / Ashutosh A. Bhagwat;
Chapter 12 The story of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette : the pledge of allegiance and the freedom of thought / Vincent Blasi and Seana V. Shiffrin;
Chapter 13 The story of Al Smith : the first amendment meets grandfather peyote / Garrett Epps;
Chapter 14 The story of City of Boerne v. Flores : federalism, rights, and judicial supremacy / Mark Tushnet;
Chapter 15 The story of the Guantánamo cases : habeas corpus, the reach of the court, and the War on Terror / Benjamin Wittes and Hannah Neprash;
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