Why the constitution matters

Why the Constitution Matters

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-189

  Tushnet, Mark ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (52)

1. George S. Boutwell, Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs (New York, McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902), vol. 2, p. 29.
2. Ernest A. Young, "The Constitution Outside the Constitution," 117 Yale Law Journal 408 (2007).
3. Mark Tushnet, Taking the Consti tution Away from the Courts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
4. H. Jefferson Powell, A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
5. Harris Poll, Oct. 23, 2008, available at http://harrisinteractive.com/harrisepoll/index.asp?PID=963; BBC World News America
6. Harris Poll, Feb. 4, 2009, available at http://harrisinteractive.com/harrisepoll/pubs/BBCeHarrisePolle2009e02e04.pdf.
7. Frederick Schauer, "Foreword: The Court's Agenda-and the Nation's," 120 Harvard Law Review 4 (Oct. 2006).
8. Admissibility of hearsay: The reference is to Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. (2008).
9. Sanford Levinson, Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
10. Larry Sabato, A More Per fect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (New York: Walker, 2007).
11. David Mayhew, Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-2002, 2d ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
12. Elana Kagan, "Presidential Adminis tration," 114 Harvard Law Review 2245 (2001).
13. Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
14. Supreme Court and Guarantee Clause: Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. (7 How.) 1 (1848).
15. Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
16. Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make: Pres idential Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
17. Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts: David T. Canon, Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts: Political Amateurs in the United States Congress (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
18. "Too plain for argument": Quotation from American Party of Texas v. White, 415 U.S. 767 (1974).
19. Anderson case: Anderson v. Celebrezze, 460 U.S. 780 (1983).
20. Fusion decision: Timmons v. Twin Cities New Party, 520 U.S. 351 (1997).
21. Scalia quotation: New York State Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U.S. 196 (2008).
22. Connecticut closed primary case: Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut, 479 U.S. 208 (1986).
23. California blanket primary case: California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U.S. 567 (2000).
24. Burger on campaign finance: Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976).
25. Campaign contribution limits: Taken from Campaign Finance Guide, http://www.campaignfinanceguide.org/guide-38.html.
26. Issue ad case: Federal Election Comm'n v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., 551 U.S. 449 (2007).
27. Millionaires' Amendment case: Davis v. Federal Election Comm'n, 554 U.S. (2008).
28. Alexander Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1962).
29. Powe: Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002).
30. Lucas A. Powe Jr., The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009).
31. Michael Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004),
32. Barry Friedman, The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
33. David A. Yalof, Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
34. Michael Klarman, "An Interpretive History of Modern Equal Protection," 90 Mich. L. Rev. 213, 274-76 (1991).
35. Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005).
36. Mark Graber, "The Nonmajoritarian Di≈culty: Legislative Defer ence to the Judiciary," 7 Studies in American Political Development 35 (1993).
37. Keith Whittington, Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
38. Hughes on low wages as subsidy: West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
39. Footnote Four: United States v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144 (1938).
40. "Constitution is color-blind": Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
41. Voluntary integration case: Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007).
42. "Facetious": Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986).
43. Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbian versus the Supreme Court (New York: Basic, 2001).
44. Later gay rights cases: Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996)
45. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
46. John C. Jeffries, Jr., and James Ryan, "A Political History of the Establishment Clause," 100 Michigan Law Review 279 (2001).
47. Reaffrming Roe: Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
48. Larry Sabato, A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (New York: Walker, 2007)
49. Sanford Levinson, Our Undemo cratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
50. Mark Tushnet, "Constitutional Workarounds," 87 Texas Law Review 1499 (2009).
51. Michael Stokes Paulsen, "Is Lloyd Bentsen Unconstitutional?", 46 Stanford Law Review 907 (1994).
52. Roger C. Cramton and Paul D. Carrington, eds., Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2006).