Benchmarks : great constitutional controversies in the Supreme Court / edited by Terry Eastland ; foreword by Griffin B. Bell.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eastland, Terry
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Grand Rapids, Mich. : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1995.
Subjects:
Constitutional law > United States > Interpretation and construction.
Judicial review > United States.
Physical Description:xviii, 181 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Constitutional interpretation in the Court's first decades / Walter Berns
  • Interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment: approaches in Slaughter-House and Plessy / Charles F. Lofgren
  • On the structure of privacy: Adair and Coppage revisited / Hadley Arkes
  • Constitutional rights in a federal system: rethinking incorporation and reverse incorporation in Patterson and Gitlow / Akhil Reed Amar
  • The right to be let alone: constitutional privacy in Griswold, Roe, and Bowers / Nadine Strossen
  • Shall we ratify the new constitution? the judicial manifesto in Casey and Lee / Gerard V. Bradley
  • Toward a structural approach to constitutional interpretation / Mary Ann Glendon.