This softcover book is the first volume in the Federal Constitutional Law Modular Casebook Series. This innovative modular approach to the material facilitates a focused study of particular topics within the field of federal constitutional law. Coverage includes:
- Introduction to the basic texts;
- Interpretations based on the structure of government, constitutional text, and historical antecedents;
- Interpretations based on the drafting and ratification debates;
- Interpretations based on traditional understandings of the constitution and judicial precedents;
- Judicial review and standards of review;
- Congressional power to structure (and restructure) the judiciary;
- Justiciability doctrines; and
- Governmental immunity from suit and the Eleventh Amendment in the Nineteenth Century.
Professor Lee J. Strang serves as the inaugural executive director of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law