Constitutional Law: Individual Rights

A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, the unique Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom throughout the semester. Use at the beginning and midway through the semester to deepen your understanding through clear explanations, corresponding hypothetical fact patterns, and analysis.*

Contents

• Preface

• Introduction to individual rights

• Substantive due process

• The Takings Clause

• The Contracts Clause

• Procedural due process and irrebuttable presumptions

• Equal protection : ordinary, "suspect", and "quasi-suspect" classifications

• Equal protection : fundamental rights

• The First Amendment : freedom of speech and of the press

• The First Amendment : freedom of religion

• The right to keep and bear arms.