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I. Colonial constitutionalism : 1. First charter of Virginia (1606) -- 2. The Mayflower Compact (1620) -- 3. Ordinance on government in Virginia (1621) -- 4. First charter of Massachusetts (1629) -- 5. Proprietary charter of Maryland (1632) -- 6. Fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639) -- 7. New England Confederation (1643) -- 8. Roger Williams on freedom of religion (1644, 1655) -- 9. Fundamental constitutions of Carolina (1670) -- 10. John Wise preaches natural rights (1717) -- 11. Albany Plan of Union (1754) -- 12. Assemblies control the purse (1765) -- II. Constitutional revolution and revolutionary constitutions : 1. James Otis expounds English Constitution (1761, 1764) -- 2. Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions (1765) -- 3. Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress -- 4. Declaratory Act (1766) -- 5. Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania -- 6. Massachusetts circular letter (1768) -- 7. Massachusetts Government Act (1774) -- 8. Galloway's plan of union (1774) -- 9. The continental association (1774) -- 10. Common Sense (1776) -- 11. Virginia Declaration of Rights and Constitutions (1776) -- 12. Declaration of Independence (1776) -- 13. Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 -- 14. Articles of Confederation (1777) -- 15. Proposed amendment of Articles of Confederation (1781) -- 16. Virginia statute of religious freedom (1786) -- 17. Northwest Ordinance (1787)

III. To form a more perfect union : 1. Report of the Annapolis Convention (1786) -- 2. Leading delegates to the federal convention (1787) -- 3. Virginia plan of union (1787) -- 4. New Jersey plan of union (1787) -- 5. Federal compromise (1787) -- 6. United States Constitution (1787) -- 7. The Federalist Papers (1787-1799) -- 8. Anti-federalist counterattack (1787-1788) -- 9. Jefferson calls for a bill of rights (1787) -- 10. The Bill of Rights (1789-1791) -- 11. An economic interpretation of the Constitution (1913) -- IV. Filling in the outlines: the federalist era : 1. Madison defends the removal of power of the president (1789) -- 2. Senate rejects advisory role (1789) -- 3. Judiciary Act of 1789 -- 4. Jefferson strict construction of the Constitution (1791) -- 5. Hamilton broad construction of the Constitution (1791) -- 6. First cabinet meeting (1791) -- 7. First executive veto (1792) -- 8. Hamilton view of executive powers (1793) -- 9. Madison view of executive powers (1793) -- 10. Eleventh Amendment (1793-1789) -- 11. Hylton v. United States (1796) -- 12. Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) -- 13. Judiciary Act of 1801 -- V.A Jeffersonian republican constitution : 1. Kentucky resolutions (1789, 1799) -- 2. Jefferson first inaugural address (1801) -- 3. Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) -- 4. The Twelfth Amendment (1804) -- 5. Impeachment of judges (1804-1805) -- 6. The Embargo Act (1807) -- 7. Proposed amendment to outlaw titles of nobility (1810) -- 8. Massachusetts nullifies call for troops (1812) -- 9. Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1816) -- 10. Second bank of the United States (1816) -- 11. Madison veto of Bonus Bill (1817) -- 12. Missouri Compromise (1819-1821) -- 13. Democracy and the New York constitution (1821) -- 14. John Quincy Adams first annual message (1826)

VI. Judicial nationalism : 1. Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- 2. Fletcher v. Peck (1810) -- 3. Martin v. Hunter Lesse (1816) -- 4. Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) -- 5. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) -- 6. Roane and Jefferson attack Supreme Court (1819) -- 7. Cohen v. Virginia (1821) -- 8. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- 9. Worcester v. Georgia (1832) -- 10. Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- VII. A Jacksonian democratic constitution : 1. Jackson view of executive powers (1829-1837) -- 2. Whig view of executive powers (1829-1840) -- 3. Maysville road veto (1830) -- 4. Veto of national bank renewal (1832) -- 5. Whig view of Jackson vetoes (1832) -- 6. South Carolina protest (1828) -- 7. Webster-Hayne debates (1830) -- 8. Calhoun Fort Hill address (1831) -- 9. South Carolina ordinance of nullification (1832) -- 10. Proclamation on nullification (1832) -- 11. Southern states reply to nullifiers (1832) -- 12. Nullification of Force Act (1833) -- 13. Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) -- 14. Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852) -- VIII. Slavery, sectionalism, and secession : 1. Debate over abolitionist petitions (1836-1837) -- 2. Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) -- 3. The Constitution a pro-slavery compact (1842, 1845) -- 4. Annexation of Texas (1845) -- 5. Wilmot Proviso (1846) -- 6. Compromise of 1850 -- 7. Kansas-Nebraska act (1854) -- 8. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- 9. Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) -- 10. Ableman v. Booth (1859) -- 11. Secession of Carolina (1860) -- 12. Presidents Buchanan, Lincoln, and Davis discuss secession (1860-1861, 1881) -- 13. Texas v. White (1869) -- IX. A house divided : 1. Proposed amendment to protect slavery (1861) -- 2. Constitution for the Confederate States of America (1861) -- 3. Lincoln first message to Congress (1861) -- 4. War powers (1861-1862) -- 5. Taney versus Lincoln on martial law (1861-1863) -- 6. Homestead Act (1862) -- 7. Second confiscation act (1862) -- 8. Emancipation (1862-1865) -- 9. Conscription Act of 1863 -- 10. Prize cases (1863) -- 11. Ex parte Milligan (1866) -- X. Rebuilding the union -- 1. Sumner state suicide theory (1862) -- 2. Lincoln amnesty proclamation (1863) -- 3. Wade-Davis bill (1864) -- 4. Black code of Mississippi (1865) -- 5. Johnson first annual message (1865) -- 6. Stevens conquered province theory (1865) -- 7. Civil Rights Act of (1866) -- 8. Fourteenth Amendment (1866-1868) -- 9. Tenure of Office Act (1867) -- 10. Reconstruction acts of (1867-1868) -- 11. Impeachment of President Johnson (1868) -- 12. Mississippi constitution 1868 and 1890 -- 13. Fifteenth Amendment (1869-1870) -- 14. Civil rights acts of 1875

XI. Whatever happened to the Fourteenth Amendment? : 1. Slaughterhouse cases (1873) -- 2. Munn v. Illinois (1877) -- 3. American bar association favors judicial activism (1881) -- 4. Civil rights cases (1883) -- 5. "Conspiracy theory" of due process (1885-1886) -- 6. Railroad rate regulation (1886-1889) -- 7. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- 8. Alleger v. Louisiana (1897) -- 9. Lochner v. New York (1905) -- 10. Adair v. United States (1905) -- 11. Muller v. Organ (1908) -- 12. Bunting v. Oregon (1917) -- XII. Early economic regulation : 1. Interstate commerce commission (1887-1910) -- 2. Trust regulation (1890-1914) -- 3. In re debs (1895) -- 4. Federal income tax (1895, 1913) -- 5. Dose the Constitution follow the flag? (1901-1904) -- 6. Oregon system (1902-1908) -- 7. Champion v. Ames (1903) -- 8. Northern Security Company v. the United States (1904) -- 9. President as steward (1908, 1913) -- 10. President as prime minister (1885-1913) -- 11. Rule of reason (1911) -- 12. Seventeenth Amendment (1913) -- 13. Regulation of child labor (1918-1924) -- XIII. War and peace: crisis and normalcy : 1. Selective service (1917, 1918) -- 2. Wilson rejects congressional interference (1917) -- 3. Lever food control act (1917) -- 4. Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917-1920) -- 5. Prohibition (1917-1933) -- 6. Constitutional arguments against League of Nations (1919-1921) -- 7. Palmer raids (1919-1920) -- 8. Missouri v. Holland (1920) -- 9. Nineteenth Amendment (1920) -- 10. Report of the War Industries Board (1921) -- 11. Adkins v. Children Hospital (1923) -- 12. Civil rights in the 1920s (1923-1925) -- 13. Myers v. United States (1926) -- 14. McNary-Hagen Bill and its veto (1927) -- 15. Hoover rugged individualism (1928) -- 16. Veto of Muscle Shoals Bill (1931)

XIV. The New Deal and a new court : 1. Twentieth Amendment (1933) -- 2. Roosevelt first inaugural address (1933) -- 3. Industrial recovery (1933-1936) -- 4. Agricultural adjustment (1933-1942) -- 5. State emergency legislation upheld (1934) -- 6. Humphrey executor v. United States (1935) -- 7. Social security (1935) -- 8. Regulation of coal industry (1935-1936) -- 9. Judicial reform and court packing? (1937) -- 10. NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin steel corporation (1937) -- 11. The New Deal court and the Bill of Rights (1937- 1941) -- 12. Twenty-second Amendment (1951) -- XV. Hot war and cold war : 1. Executive leadership (1936-1952) -- 2. Lend-lease act (1940-1941) -- 3. Emergency Price Control Act (1942) -- 4. Treatment of the enemy (1942-1947) -- 5. Treatment of Japanese-Americans (1943-1944) -- 6. United Nations Participation Act (1945) -- 7. Martial law in Hawaii: Duncan v. Kahanamoku (1946) -- 8. Communist cases under the Smith Act (1951-1961) -- 9. Bricker Amendment (1952-1958) -- 10. McCarren Act (1950, 1961) -- 11. Communist control act of 1954 -- 12. End of McCarthyism (1954) -- 13. Fifth Amendment cases (1956, 1958) -- 14. Legislative investigation of communists (1957, 1959) -- 15. Loyalty programs: Greene v. McElroy (1959) -- 16. Twenty-fifth Amendment (1967)

XVI. Civil rights and civil liberties : 1. Judicial restraint versus judicial activism (1943-1962) -- 2. Negro voting (1927-1966) -- 3. School desegregation (1938-1958) -- 4. Massive resistance to desegregation (1956-1958) -- 5. Civil rights acts (1957, 1960,1964) -- 6. Legislative reapportionment (1946-1968) -- 7. Separation of church and state (1947-1963) -- 8. Twenty-third Amendment (1961) -- 9. Unreasonable search and seizure: Mapp v. Ohio (1961) -- 10. Right to legal counsel (1963-1966) -- 11. Conservative counterattack on the Supreme Court (1962-1967)

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