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THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL CONSTITUTION

 
 

Richard A. Epstein

 
 

Subtitle: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government - Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2014, 684 pgs., index, index of cases, end notes

 
 

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Preface

 
 

Introduction - Our Two Constitutions

 
 

Chapter 1 - The Classical Liberal Synthesis

 
 

Chapter 2 - The Progressive Response

 
 

Chapter 3 - Constituonal Interpretation: The Original and the Prescriptive Constitution

 
 

Chapter 4 - The Origins of Judicial Review

 
 

Chapter 5 - Marbury and Martin

 
 

Chapter 6 - Standing: Background and Origins

 
 

Chapter 7 - Modern Standing Law

 
 

Chapter 8 - The Political Question Doctrine

 
 

Chapter 9 - The Commerce Power: Theory and Practice, 1787 - 1865

 
 

Chapter 10 - The Commerce Clause in Transition: 1865 - 1937

 
 

Chapter11 - The Commerce Clause: Tranformation to Consolidation, 1937 - 1995

 
 

Chapter 12 - Constitutional Pushback: 1995 to Present, from Lopez to NFIB

 
 

Chapter 13 - Enumerated Powers; Taxing and Spending

 
 

Chapter 14 - The Necessary and Proper Clause

 
 

Chapter 15 - The Dormant Commerce Clause

 
 

Chapter16 - Basic Principles and Domestic Powers

 
 

Chapter 17 - Delegation and Rise of Independent Agencies

 
 

Chapter 18 - Foreign and Military affairs

 
 

Chapter 19 - From Structural Protections to Individual Rights

 
 

Chapter 20 - Procedural Due Process; Implementing the Classical Liberal Ideal

 
 

Chapter 21 - Freedom of Contract

 
 

Chapter 22 - Takings, Physical and Regulatory

 
 

Chapter 23 - Personal Liberties and the Morals Head of the Police Power

 
 

Chapter 24 - Freedom of Speech and Religion: Preliminary Considerations

 
 

Chapter 25 - Force, Threats and Inducements

 
 

Chapter 26 - Fraud, Defamation, Emotional Distress, and Invasion

 
 

Chapter 27 - Government Regulation of Speech Commons

 
 

Chapter 28 - Progressive Regulation of Freedom of Speech: Labor, Communications, and Campaign Finance

 
 

Chapter 29 - Free Exercise

 
 

Chapter 30 - The Establishment Clause: Theoretical Foundations

 
 

Chapter 31 - Regulation and Subsidy under the Establishment Clause

 
 

Chapter 32 - The Commons

 
 

Chapter 33 - Race and the Fourteenth Amendment

 
 

Chapter 34 - Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment

 
 

Chapter 35 - Equal Protection and Sex Discrimination

 
 

Conclusion: The Classical Liberal Alternative

 

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