Constitutional Law for a Changing America
Institutional Powers and Constraints
by Lee Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, Thomas G. Walker
12th Edition
Publisher: CQ Press
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Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781071934470 |
| eText ISBN | 9781071934500 |
| Publisher | CQ Press |
| Publishing Year | 2026 |
| Edition | 12th Edition |
| Language | English |
Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and Constraints, 12th Edition, is a textbook by Lee Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, and Thomas G. Walker designed for courses examining institutional governance. Published by CQ Press, this volume analyzes how the U.S. Supreme Court interprets governmental authority and limits across the American political system.
Structuring its coverage into four main parts—The U.S. Constitution, Institutional Authority, Nation-State Relations, and Economic Liberties—the volume explores topics such as federalism, interbranch interactions, and Supreme Court decision making. Key subjects include the commerce power, taxing and spending authority, the Contract Clause, economic substantive due process, and the Takings Clause.
Featuring updated material that includes recent court rulings and more than 500 supplemental cases, this edition broadens its treatment of judicial, legislative, and executive authority. It serves as a primary learning tool for political science students studying the boundaries of federal and state power.
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
- • Establishment of the Federal Judiciary
- • Judicial Review
- • Marbury v. Madison
- • Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
- • Eakin v. Raub
- • Constraints on Judicial Power: Article III
- • Ex parte McCardle
- • Baker v. Carr
- • Nixon v. United States
- • Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
- • Constraints on Judicial Power: Judicial Self-Restraint and the Separation of Powers System
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 3: The Legislature
- • Article I: Historical Overview
- • Powell v. McCormack
- • U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
- • Gravel v. United States
- • Introduction to Legislative Powers
- • Enumerated Powers
- • Implied Powers and the Necessary and Proper Clause
- • McCulloch v. Maryland
- • McGrain v. Daugherty
- • Watkins v. United States
- • Barenblatt v. United States
- • Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP
- • South Carolina v. Katzenbach
- • Congress’s Interpretation of the Constitution
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 4: The Executive
- • The Structure of the Presidency
- • Bush v. Gore
- • The President’s Constitutional Authority and Tools for Executing It
- • The Faithful Execution of the Laws: Defining the Contours of Presidential Power
- • In re Neagle
- • Domestic Powers of the President
- • Clinton v. City of New York
- • Morrison v. Olson
- • Myers v. United States
- • Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
- • United States v. Nixon
- • Mississippi v. Johnson
- • Clinton v. Jones
- • Trump v. Vance
- • Trump v. United States
- • Ex parte Grossman
- • Murphy v. Ford
- • The Role of the President in External Relations
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 5: Interbranch Interactions
- • Debates over Interbranch Interactions
- • Domestic Powers
- • Gundy v. United States
- • Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha; the U.S. House of Representatives v. Immigration and Naturalization Service; the U.S. Senate v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
- • Bowsher v. Synar
- • Powers over Foreign Affairs
- • Prize Cases
- • Ex parte Milligan
- • Korematsu v. United States
- • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
- • Dames & Moore v. Regan
- • Zivotofsky v. Kerry, Secretary of State
- • Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 6: Federalism
- • The Doctrinal Cycle of Nation-State Relations
- • McCulloch v. Maryland
- • Dred Scott v. Sandford
- • Coyle v. Smith
- • Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
- • New York v. United States
- • Printz v. United States
- • Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
- • The Eleventh Amendment and Sovereign Immunity
- • Alden v. Maine
- • National Preemption of State Laws
- • State of Missouri v. Holland
- • Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council
- • Arizona v. United States
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 7: The Commerce Power
- • Foundations of the Commerce Power
- • Gibbons v. Ogden
- • Attempts to Define the Commerce Power in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution
- • United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
- • Stafford v. Wallace
- • Champion v. Ames
- • Hammer v. Dagenhart
- • The Supreme Court and the New Deal
- • A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- • National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
- • United States v. Darby
- • Wickard v. Filburn
- • The Era of Expansive Commerce Clause Jurisprudence
- • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
- • Limits on the Commerce Power: The Republican Court Era
- • United States v. Lopez
- • United States v. Morrison
- • Gonzales v. Raich
- • National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
- • Commerce Power of the States
- • Cooley v. Board of Wardens
- • Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona
- • National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
- • Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission
- • Maine v. Taylor
- • Granholm v. Heald
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 8: The Power to Tax and Spend
- • The Framers and Defining the Financial Powers
- • Direct Taxes and the Power to Tax Income
- • Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.
- • Taxation of Exports
- • United States v. United States Shoe Corp.
- • Intergovernmental Tax Immunity
- • South Carolina v. Baker
- • Davis v. Michigan Dept. of Treasury
- • Taxation as a Regulatory Power
- • McCray v. United States
- • Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.
- • Sonzinsky v. United States
- • Taxing and Spending for the General Welfare
- • United States v. Butler
- • Steward Machine Co. v. Davis
- • South Dakota v. Dole
- • National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
- • Restrictions on the Revenue Powers of the States
- • Michelin Tire Corp. v. Wages
- • Complete Auto Transit v. Brady
- • South Dakota v. Wayfair
- • Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Oregon
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 9: The Contract Clause
- • The Framers and the Contract Clause
- • John Marshall and the Contract Clause
- • Fletcher v. Peck
- • Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- • Decline of the Contract Clause: From the Taney Court to the New Deal
- • Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge
- • Stone v. Mississippi
- • Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell
- • Modern Applications of the Contract Clause
- • Sveen v. Melin
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 10: Economic Substantive Due Process
- • Development of Substantive Due Process
- • The Slaughterhouse Cases (Butchers’ Benevolent Association v. Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughter House Company)
- • Munn v. Illinois
- • Allgeyer v. Louisiana
- • The Roller-Coaster Ride of Substantive Due Process: 1898–1923
- • Lochner v. New York
- • Muller v. Oregon
- • The Heyday of Substantive Due Process: 1923–1936
- • Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
- • The Depression, the New Deal, and the Decline of Economic Substantive Due Process
- • Nebbia v. New York
- • West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
- • Williamson v. Lee Optical Company
- • Substantive Due Process: Contemporary Relevance
- • BMW of North America v. Gore
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
Chapter 11: The Takings Clause
- • Protecting Private Property from Government Seizure
- • What Is a Taking?
- • United States v. Causby
- • Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York
- • Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
- • Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
- • Horne v. Department of Agriculture
- • What Is a Public Use?
- • Berman v. Parker
- • Kelo v. City of New London
- • What Is Just Compensation?
- • United States v. 564.54 Acres of Land
- • ANNOTATED READINGS
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