Add to ORKGContinuing a study of the first hundred years of constitutional litigation, Professor Currie explores the decisions of the Taney period respecting the Contract and Commerce Clauses. Though early decisions of the Taney Court seemed to portend a departure from the nationalism of its predecessor, the author argues that the impression was largely misleading. In general, for example, the Court under Taney proved rather sympathetic to contract rights. In Commerce Clause cases, after being badly split, the Court was able to agree on a longlasting formula that acknowledged an implicit limitation on state power, and although in the Taney period the Court never clearly struck down a state law on Commerce Clause grounds, it found other ways to protect...
In the historic case of M\u27Culloch v. Maryland, CHIEF Justice Marshall said, referring to the Fede...
In 1818, the United State Supreme Court ended the year's term without rendering a decision in the ca...
Recent decisions have revealed a growing rift in the Supreme Court on the question of the effect of ...
Continuing a study of the first hundred years of constitutional litigation, Professor Currie explore...
Continuing his critical analysis of the constitutional decisions of the Taney period, Professor Curr...
Between 1837 and 1852, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was severly divided over...
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to regulate interstate and fore...
During the early nineteenth century, the contract clause served as the fundamental source of federal...
In the first of three articles, distinguished political scientist Carl B. Swisher discusses the role...
This is the latest in Professor Currie\u27s continuing series on the historical development of const...
Less than fifteen years ago, there were constitutional problems important enough to stir the country...
The Constitution\u27s original meaning is its meaning to those ratifying the document during a discr...
The Senate hearings considering Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination called new attention to the C...
While the Constitution does not in terms forbid the United States, as it forbids the states, to pass...
Commerce Clause New Federalism in the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts describes how interpretation of t...
In the historic case of M\u27Culloch v. Maryland, CHIEF Justice Marshall said, referring to the Fede...
In 1818, the United State Supreme Court ended the year's term without rendering a decision in the ca...
Recent decisions have revealed a growing rift in the Supreme Court on the question of the effect of ...
Continuing a study of the first hundred years of constitutional litigation, Professor Currie explore...
Continuing his critical analysis of the constitutional decisions of the Taney period, Professor Curr...
Between 1837 and 1852, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was severly divided over...
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to regulate interstate and fore...
During the early nineteenth century, the contract clause served as the fundamental source of federal...
In the first of three articles, distinguished political scientist Carl B. Swisher discusses the role...
This is the latest in Professor Currie\u27s continuing series on the historical development of const...
Less than fifteen years ago, there were constitutional problems important enough to stir the country...
The Constitution\u27s original meaning is its meaning to those ratifying the document during a discr...
The Senate hearings considering Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination called new attention to the C...
While the Constitution does not in terms forbid the United States, as it forbids the states, to pass...
Commerce Clause New Federalism in the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts describes how interpretation of t...
In the historic case of M\u27Culloch v. Maryland, CHIEF Justice Marshall said, referring to the Fede...
In 1818, the United State Supreme Court ended the year's term without rendering a decision in the ca...
Recent decisions have revealed a growing rift in the Supreme Court on the question of the effect of ...