Constitutional Law for a Changing America
Rights, Liberties, and Justice
by Lee Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, Thomas G. Walker
12th Edition
Publisher: CQ Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781071901663 |
| eText ISBN | 9781071901687 |
| Publisher | CQ Press |
| Publishing Year | 2025 |
| Edition | 12th Edition |
| Language | English |
Constitutional Law for a Changing America, 12th Edition, is an academic textbook that demonstrates how political dynamics affect judicial choices and frame constitutional law. Authors Lee Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, and Thomas G. Walker guide readers through the political realities that affect the United States Supreme Court and its rulings.
Broad thematic coverage moves from institutional judicial constraints and Bill of Rights incorporation to foundational civil liberties. Specific topics include religious exercise and establishment, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right to keep and bear arms, and personal privacy. Additional units focus on investigations, trials, equal protection, and voting rights.
Published by CQ Press for political science and government courses, this 12th Edition integrates updates on recent judicial rulings and expanded commentary on free expression. With access to over 500 supplemental cases, the text provides students with extensive primary material to analyze judicial outcomes in contemporary society.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court
- • Processing Supreme Court Cases
- • Supreme Court Decision Making: Legalism
- • Supreme Court Decision Making: Realism
- • Conducting Research on the Supreme Court
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 2: The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints
- • Judicial Review
- • Marbury v. Madison
- • Constraints on Judicial Power
- • Ex parte McCardle
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 3: Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
- • Must States Abide by the Bill of Rights? Initial Responses
- • Barron v. Baltimore
- • Incorporation through the Fourteenth Amendment: Early Interpretations
- • Hurtado v. California
- • Tests Emerge
- • Palko v. Connecticut
- • Incorporation in the Aftermath of Palko
- • Duncan v. Louisiana
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 4: Religion: Exercise and Establishment
- • Defining Religion
- • Free Exercise of Religion
- • Sherbert v. Verner
- • Wisconsin v. Yoder
- • Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith
- • Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye Inc. v. City of Hialeah
- • Religious Establishment
- • School District of Abington Township v. Schempp
- • Lemon v. Kurtzman
- • Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- • Edwards v. Aguillard
- • Van Orden v. Perry
- • American Legion v. American Humanist Association
- • Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association
- • Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
- • The Future of the Establishment Clause
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 5: Foundations of Freedom of Expression
- • Free Expression in the Constitution
- • Justifications for Protecting Expression
- • Setting the Stage for Free Expression in the Supreme Court
- • Free Expression and the Incitement of Lawless Action
- • Schenck v. United States
- • Gitlow v. New York
- • Brandenburg v. Ohio
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 6: Modern-day Approaches to Free Expression
- • An Overview of Modern-day Free Speech Doctrine
- • What Is Expression?
- • United States v. O’Brien
- • Texas v. Johnson
- • Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
- • West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- • 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
- • Does the Expression Fall into an Unprotected Category?
- • Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
- • Cohen v. California
- • Who Is Speaking?
- • Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- • Morse v. Frederick
- • Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
- • Matal v. Tam
- • Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York
- • Is the Regulation Content Neutral or Content Based?
- • McCullen v. Coakley
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 7: Freedom of the Press
- • Prior Restraint
- • Near v. Minnesota
- • New York Times v. United States
- • Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart
- • Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
- • Government Control of Press Content
- • News Gathering and Special Rights
- • Branzburg v. Hayes
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 8: The Boundaries of Free Expression: Libel, Obscenity, and Emerging Areas of Government Regulation
- • Libel
- • New York Times v. Sullivan
- • Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
- • Obscenity
- • Roth v. United States
- • Miller v. California
- • New York v. Ferber
- • Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
- • Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 9: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
- • Initial Interpretations
- • The Second Amendment Revisited
- • District of Columbia v. Heller
- • Heller and the States
- • In the Aftermath of Heller and McDonald
- • New York State Pistol & Rifle Association, Inc. v. Bruen
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 10: Privacy and Personal Liberty
- • The Right to Privacy: Foundations
- • Griswold v. Connecticut
- • Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy: Abortion
- • Roe v. Wade
- • The Aftermath of Roe
- • Overruling Roe
- • Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
- • Lawrence v. Texas
- • Obergefell v. Hodges
- • Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 11: Investigations and Evidence
- • Searches and Seizures
- • Katz v. United States
- • Florida v. Jardines
- • Carpenter v. United States
- • Illinois v. Gates
- • Terry v. Ohio
- • Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding
- • Mapp v. Ohio
- • United States v. Leon
- • Hudson v. Michigan
- • The Fifth Amendment and Self-Incrimination
- • Escobedo v. Illinois
- • Miranda v. Arizona
- • Missouri v. Seibert
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 12: Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
- • The Right to Counsel
- • Powell v. Alabama
- • Gideon v. Wainwright
- • The Pretrial Period and the Right to Bail
- • The Sixth Amendment and Fair Trials
- • Batson v. Kentucky
- • Sheppard v. Maxwell
- • Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia
- • Trial Proceedings
- • Final Trial Stage: An Overview of Sentencing
- • The Eighth Amendment
- • Gregg v. Georgia
- • Atkins v. Virginia
- • Posttrial Protections and the Double Jeopardy Clause
- • Postrelease Protections
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 13: Race Discrimination and the Foundations of Equal Protection
- • Initial Approaches to the Fourteenth Amendment
- • Plessy v. Ferguson
- • Sweatt v. Painter
- • Brown v. Board Of Education (I)
- • Brown v. Board Of Education (II)
- • Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
- • State Action Requirement
- • Shelley v. Kraemer
- • Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority
- • Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 14: Contemporary Approaches to Equal Protection
- • Rational Basis Scrutiny
- • Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center
- • Strict Scrutiny and Claims of Race Discrimination
- • Loving v. Virginia
- • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- • Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
- • Heightened Scrutiny and Claims of Gender Discrimination
- • Reed v. Reed
- • Craig v. Boren
- • United States v. Virginia
- • Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
- • Romer v. Evans
- • Discrimination Based on Economic Status
- • San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
- • Discrimination against Non-U.S. Citizens
- • Plyler v. Doe
- • The Future of Discrimination Law
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 15: Voting and Representation
- • Voting Rights
- • South Carolina v. Katzenbach
- • Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder
- • Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
- • Political Representation
- • Reynolds v. Sims
- • Miller v. Johnson
- • Rucho v. Common Cause
- • Election Campaign Regulation
- • Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- • McCutcheon, et al. v. Federal Election Commission
- • The Court and Presidential Elections
- • Bush v. Gore
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
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