Politics and Public Policy in the United States

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.03.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Learning Objectives
  4. Content Objectives
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Resources
  8. Reading List for Students
  9. Appendix on Implementing district Standards
  10. Notes

The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change

Christina Marsett

Published September 2020

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Notes

1 Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, 1st ed. (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019).

2 Benjamin Ginsberg et al., “The Founding and the Constitution,” in We The People, 11th ed. (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017), 39–68.

3 rton & Company, Inc., 2017), 39–68.

4  Paul J Scheips, “Significance and Adoption of Article V of the Constitution,” Notre Dame Law Review 26, no. 1 (1950): 46–67.

5 Kahlil Chism, “The Constitutional Amendment Process.,” Social Education 69, no. 7 (2005): 373.

6  Francis J. Aul, “Statutory Rules of Constitutional Interpretation and the Original Understanding of Judicial Power and Independence,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 17, no. 1 (2019).

7 U.S. Const. art. III.

8  Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet, 1st ed. (New York: Random House, Inc., 1964).

9 Mark Tushnet, Why the Constitution Matters, 1st ed. (Orwigsburg, PA: Keystone Typesetting, Inc., 2010).

10 Aul, “Statutory Rules of Constitutional Interpretation and the Original Understanding of Judicial Power and Independence.”

11 Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet.

12 Tushnet, Why the Constitution Matters.

13 Amanda C. Bryan, “Public Opinion and Setting the Agenda on the U.S. Supreme Court,” American Politics Research 48, no. 3 (2020): 377–90, https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X18822312.

14 Christopher J. Casillas, Peter K. Enns, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth, “How Public Opinion Constrains the U.S. Supreme Court,” American Journal of Political Science 55, no. 1 (2011): 74–88, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00485.x.

15 “Landmark Legislation: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, & Fifteenth Amendments,” United States Senate Webpage, n.d.

16 “Civil Rights,” Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, accessed November 7, 2020, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/civil_rights.

17 “The Emancipation Proclamation,” The National Archives’ Online Exhibits, 2019.

18 Eric Foner, “Abraham Lincoln, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Problem of Freedom,” Georgetown Jornal of Law & Public Policy 15, no. 1 (2017): 59+.

19 Foner.

20 U.S. Const. amend. XIIV.

21 “History of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment,” Tulane University Law School Webpage, accessed December 7, 2020, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fourteenth-amendment.

22 History.com Editors, “14th Amendment,” History.com, 2020.

23 “Civil Rights.”

24 Garrett Epps, “The Antebellum Political Background of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Law and Contemporary Problems 67, no. 3 (2004): 175+, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A125875239/AONE?u=29002&sid=AONE&xid=080de1ae.

25 Epps.

26 U.S. Const. amend. XV.

27 Franita Tolson, “The Constitutional Structure of Voting Rights Enforcement,” Washington Law Review 89, no. 2 (2014): 413+, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A376071102/AONE?u=29002&sid=AONE&xid=98d276f7.

28 Tolson.

29 Michael A. Ross, “The Supreme Court, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the Civil War,” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 275–94, https://doi.org/10.1111/jsch.12119.

30 “The Chase Court, 1864-1873,” The Supreme Court Historical Society Webpage, n.d.

31 “Members of the Supreme Court of the United States,” Supreme Court of the United States Webpage, accessed December 7, 2020, https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members.aspx.

32 David Goldfield, America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, 1st ed. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2011).

33 Eric Foner, “The Supreme Court and the History of Reconstruction — and Vice-Versa,” Columbia Law Review 112, no. 7 (2018): 1585–1606.

34 Foner.

35 Ross, “The Supreme Court, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the Civil War.”

36 Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.

37 Foner.

38 Foner.

39 James F. Simon, Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties, 1st ed. (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018).

40 Simon.

41 Mark Tushnet, ed., The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective, 1st ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993).

42 Tushnet.

43 Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.

44 Gennie Westbrook, “Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.,” Constituting America, 2017, https://constitutingamerica.org/jones-v-alfred-h-mayer-co-1968-guest-essayist-gennie-westbrook/.

45 Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet.

46 Marc S. Rodriguez, “Hernandez v. Texas,” Oyez, n.d.

47 History.com Editors, “Loving v. Virginia,” History.com, 2019.

48 Tushnet, The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective.

49 Simon, Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties.

50 Tushnet, The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective.

51 Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Just America (New York: Penguin Press, 2020).

52 Simon, Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties.

53 Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Just America.

54 “Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections,” Oyez, n.d.

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