With liberty and justice for all? the Constitution in the classroom / Steven A. Steinbach, Maeva Marcus, Robert Cohen ; foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Descriptionxxii, 436 pages ; 25 cm
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Other author/creatorSteinbach, Steven A.
Other author/creatorMarcus, Maeva, 1941-
Other author/creatorCohen, Robert, 1955 May 21-
Other author/creatorGinsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020.
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Contents Foreword / by Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- The foundations of constitutional history. Essay : Shaping the Constitution / Linda Greenhouse ; Sources: Five questions about the Constitution ; Judicial review ; Interpreting the Constitution -- The founding (1776-91). Essay : The age of the Constitution / Mary Sarah Bilder ; Sources: Constitutional provision regarding slavery ; A bill of Rights? -- The Constitution in the new nation (1789-1848). Essay : Creating "We the people" / Annette Gordon-Reed ; Sources: Slavery, race, and the states ; Native American policy -- The Constitution in crisis (1848-77). Essay : The Civil War, reconstruction, and the constitutional revolution / Eric Foner ; Sources: Fugitive Slave Act ; Dred Scott ; Interpretation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments -- The Constitution at home and abroad (187701917). Essay : From the reconstruction constitution to empire / Sam Erman ; Sources: The Chinese Exclusion Act (and the Anarchist Exclusion Act) ; Territories -- The Constitution during war and peace (1917-45). Essay : Democracy at home : prohibition, war and women's suffrage / Julie Suk ; Sources: The Nineteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment ; Confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II -- The Constitution in the postwar world (1945-74). Essay : The Warren court and constitutional liberalism / Laura Kalman ; Sources: McCarthyism ; Civil rights : school desegregation ; Civil rights : public accommodations -- Constitutionalism in contemporary America. Essay : The rights revolution and the modern Supreme Court / Melissa Murray ; Sources: Privacy and abortion ; Women's rights ; Same-sex relationships -- Appendix 1. Debating the Constitution -- Appendix 2. Other ideas for teaching constitutional history
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