Ronald D. Rotunda and John E. Nowak
The authors, recognized authorities for over a third of a century, provide succinct and authoritative coverage of the major principles in modern American constitutional law. This book is a shortened version based on the authors' hornbook (popular with students) and their six-volume treatise (popular with judges, practitioners, and scholars). It analyzes the constitutional issues studied today, and discusses the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction, federal commerce and spending powers, state powers in light of the dormant Commerce Clause, the war power, freedom of speech and religion, equal protection, due process, and other important individual rights and liberties. This book is completely up to date and includes all major Supreme Court cases through February, 2016, including the ground breaking First Amendment decisions of the Roberts' Court.*
The origins of judicial review
Federal jurisdiction
Sources of national authority
The federal commerce power
Federal power to tax and spend
International affairs
The President and Congress : selected issues
The commerce clause and restrictions on state regulatory powers
Article IV and VI issues : preemption and comity
Individual liberties : an overview
Substantive due process
State action
Procedural due process : the requirement of fair adjudicative procedures
Equal protection
Congressional enforcement of civil rights
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion.