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Constitutional Analysis in a Nutshell

4th Edition
Thomas E. Baker
ISBN: 9798887860701
Subject: Constitutional Law
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 675
Copyright: 2025 | Status: Accepting Pre-Orders

This authoritative text provides a framework for understanding individual liberty and governmental power and the institutional role played by the Supreme Court of the United States. The comprehensive coverage in this new and improved edition includes all the major topics: judicial review; commerce clause and state powers; federalism; separation of powers; congressional and executive powers; and individual civil rights and civil liberties. It includes diagrams that aid understanding of the fundamentals of our system of government. A chapter samples all the academic literature on the subject in condensed form. An appendix summarizes the case law found in all the casebooks in a straightforward manner to provide an overview and to aid in review for the final examination. Extremely accessible and comprehensive — this is a paperback course in American Constitutional Law — your own personal tutor.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Nutshells
Publication Date: 01/14/2025
Related Subject(s): Constitutional Theory

Thomas E. Baker, Florida International University College of Law

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  • Updated to cover important recent Supreme Court decisions through the end of the October Term 2023-24.
  • Added new diagrams and illustrations to describe recent dramatic Roberts Court overrulings and new pathbreaking decisions about abortion, affirmative action, the second amendment, freedom of speech, administrative agency autonomy, the internet, and presidential immunity.
  • Revised the literature survey chapter that samples all the academic literature about Constitutional Law in condensed form.
  • Updated the comprehensive Appendix summary of constitutional law cases and doctrines.
  • Added a Bibliographic Note on the Supreme Court for further research and study.

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