Subject Index for Con Law I Lectures
Entries by Category
- american constitution -- design engineering, structured conflict (1)
- american constitution -- how democratic? (1)
- american constitution -- parliamentary philosophy hidden within (1)
- american constitution -- philosophic significance (1)
- american constitution -- ratification (1)
- american constitution -- statutory power (1)
- articles of confederation -- failure and nationhood (1)
- Colonial America -- becoming, declaring independence (1)
- Colonial America -- Economy, Population, Government, Etc. (1)
- Colonial America -- England Loses The Colonies (1)
- Colonial America -- governments during revolution (1)
- Colonial America -- introducing each colony (1)
- Colonial America -- James Otis & constitutionality (1)
- Colonial America -- Mercantilism (1)
- Colonial America -- population, mercantilism (1)
- Colonial America -- Spain, France & England in the New World (1)
- Colonial America -- taxation and representation (2)
- constitutional convention -- plans of government (1)
- constitutional convention -- protocol and origin (1)
- course information -- briefing cases (1)
- course information -- final course paper (1)
- course information -- intro and warning about part II (1)
- course introduction -- exams, quizzes, etc. (1)
- course introduction -- grades (1)
- course introduction -- meet the professor (1)
- course introduction -- quality points (1)
- course introduction -- student parliament (1)
- course introduction -- subject matter (1)
- course introduction -- teaching philosophy (1)
- course introduction -- tips for success (1)
- emergency power -- the prize cases (1)
- emergency powers -- enemy combatants (captures clause) (1)
- emergency powers -- enemy combatants (hamdan) (1)
- emergency powers -- enemy combatants (hamdi) (1)
- emergency powers -- enemy combatants (quirin) (1)
- emergency powers -- how to structure (dames & moore) (1)
- emergency powers -- how to structure (youngstown) (1)
- emergency powers -- how to structure (youngstown, facts of case) (1)
- emergency powers -- japanese internment ("the final solution") (1)
- emergency powers -- japanese internment (korematsu) (1)
- emergency powers -- japanese internment (social context) (1)
- emergency powers -- legal and extra-legal (1)
- emergency powers -- lincoln, law and power (1)
- emergency powers -- mccardle (revoking court jurisdiction) (1)
- emergency powers -- milligan (suspending habeas) (1)
- emergency powers -- revoking court jurisdiction (limits to) (1)
- English History -- Absolute Monarchy (1)
- English History -- Advantage on the High Seas (1)
- English History -- Divine Right & Chain of Being (1)
- English History -- Glorious Revolution (1)
- English History -- Religion and Society in the MIddle Ages (1)
- English History -- Rise of the Two-Party System (1)
- English History -- The Enlightenment & Reformation (1)
- English HIstory -- The Financial Revolution (1)
- English History -- The First Modern Country? (1)
- English History -- Violations in the Chain of Being (1)
- federal power -- an introduction to roger taney (1)
- federal power -- conceptualizing "commerce" (1)
- federal power -- FDR (commerce & government motivation) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (court appointments) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (court packing plan) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (nlrb) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (nlrb, law and politics) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (owens, switch in time) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (the four horseman) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (the new deal) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (west coast hotel) (1)
- federal power -- FDR (wickard's principles) (1)
- federal power -- great depression (1)
- federal power -- introduction to (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (bailey v. drexel furniture) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (butler as regime politics) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (carter v. carter coal) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (e.c. knight) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (hammer v. dagenhart) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (lochner and substantive due process) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (mcCray v. us) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (schechter poultry) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (schechter's significance; FDR reaction) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire (us. v. butler) (1)
- federal power -- laissez faire commerce clause (1)
- federal power -- lopez (rehquist era's first shot) (1)
- federal power -- marshall; brown v. maryland (1)
- federal power -- marshall; gibbons (the facts) (1)
- federal power -- marshall; gibbons (the issue) (1)
- federal power -- marshall; gibbons (the ruling) (1)
- federal power -- morrison (entering the danger zone?) (1)
- federal power -- outlawing discrimination with commerce clause (1)
- federal power -- raich (and retreat) (1)
- federal power -- social transformation, late 1800s (1)
- federal power -- taney; dormant power (cooley, license cases) (1)
- federal power -- taney; state police powers (miln) (1)
- federal power -- the big picture (1)
- federal power -- the constitution's words (1)
- federal power -- the effect of laissez faire commerce rulings (1)
- federal power -- the new deal commerce clause (1)
- judicial power -- hamilton, de toqueville (1)
- judicial review -- marbury v. madison ( judiciary act of 1789) (1)
- judicial review -- marbury v. madison (historic decision) (1)
- judicial review -- marbury v. madison (midnight judges) (1)
- judicial review -- marbury v. madison (politics or law?) (1)
- judicial review -- why it created controversy (1)
- political parties -- development of in late 1700s (1)
- presidential power -- above law? (investigations, lawsuits, exec priv) (1)
- presidential power -- above law? (pardons, imeachment) (1)
- presidential power -- curtiss-wright (rhetoric) (1)
- presidential power -- epoch I (the framer's presidency) (1)
- presidential power -- epoch II (the american caesar) (1)
- presidential power -- epoch III (reigning in emergency powers) (1)
- presidential power -- epochs (introduction) (1)
- presidential power -- evolution of (1)
- presidential power -- executive agreements (1)
- presidential power -- liberal legal culture threatening article ii? (1)
- presidential power -- starting war (1)
- presidential power -- views about, 1900s (1)
- supreme court -- early years (1)
- supreme court -- judicial review (1)
- supreme court -- role in american government (2)
- the federalist court -- chisholm v. georgia (1)
- the federalist court -- martin v. hunter's lessee (1)
- the federalist court -- mccullough v. maryland (1)
Entries by Title
- 01.A: Lecture Outline: The Course Rules, Subject Matter & Teaching Approach
- 01.B: Greetings! I'm Your Professor.
- 01.C: The Course Subject Matter
- 01.D: My Teaching Approach in the Class -- Developmentalism, Philosophy, but Never Law for its Own Sake
- 01.E: Course Rules -- Quizzes, Exams, Textbooks & Emails
- 01.F: Course Rules -- Quality Points
- 01.G: Course Rules -- Grades
- 01.H: Course Rules -- The Student Parliament
- 01.I: Tips for Success in the Course
- 02.A: Lecture Introduction: The Midieval Political Order in England and The Beginning of its End
- 02.B: Class Announcements
- 02.D: The Midieval Political Order: Diving Right, Chains of Being, Social Rank, Patriarchy & Deference
- 02.E: Religion and Society in England in the Middle Ages Through the 1500s
- 02.F: Absolute Monarchy & Its Prerogatives
- 02.G: Out of the Dark: Radical Ideas Begin to Challenge the Medieval Political World
- 03.A:Lecture Introduction: England as the First Modern Country in History -- The Glorious and Financial Revolutions
- 03.B: Class Announcements
- 03.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 03.D: England and the High Seas -- Water Becomes Her Advantage
- 03.E: Violations of the Chain of Being -- Social Transformation & "Politics" in England
- 03.F: The Glorious Revolution: England Creates a Constitutional Monarchy
- 03.G: England's Financial Revolution -- The Great Invention of Finance Capitalism
- 03.H: The Rise of the Two Party System in English Politics
- 03.I: England as the First Modern Country in History
- 04.A: Lecture Outline: The New World and the New American Colonies
- 04.B: Class Announcements
- 04.E: The Empries Compete For Conquest of the New World
- 04.F: An Examination of the New English Colonies
- 04.G: The Colonial Success -- Population Growth and Mercantilism
- 05.A: Lecture Outline: The Beginning of the End: England Fumbles Her American Colonies
- 05.B: Class Announcements
- 05.D: The Structuring of Mercantilism: Britain and Her American Colonies
- 05.E: The Colonies Become A Success: Economics, Population, Government & More
- 05.F: England Fumbles Her Colonies: From the French/Indian War, Through the Stamp Act to Bloodshed
- 06.A: Lecture Outline: The Rhetoric of Independence
- 06.B: Class Announcements
- 06.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 06.D: Class Discussion: "No Taxation Without Representation" -- Was it All Just Rhetoric?
- 06.E: Understanding the Taxation Issue: The Colonists Never Wanted Representation; They Wanted Local Rule.
- 06.F: The Constitutional Convention -- Organization & Protocol
- 06.F: What is "Unconstitutional" in the British System? The Lessons of James Otis.
- 06.G. America Becomes Independent -- Extra-Legal Assemblies, The Declaration & Sociological Factors
- 07.A: Lecture Outline: The Need for Central Authority and the Call of the Convention.
- 07.B: Class Announcements
- 07.C: Review: Taxation, Constitutionality & Independence
- 07.D: The Articles and the States: Early Experiments in Self Governance.
- 07.E: The Failure of the Articles and the Nagging Question -- Was the Revolution About Nationhood or Independence?
- 07.G: Understanding the Plans of Governance; Virginia, New Jersey & The Great Compromise
- 08.A: Lecture Outline: The Philosophy, Architecture and Design Principles Behind the American Constitutution
- 08.B: Class Announcements
- 08.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 08.D: The Philosophic Significance of the American Constitution
- 08.E: What the American Constitution Does to the Statutory Power -- the Power to Govern Has Never Been More Difficult
- 08.F: The Architecture and Engineering of the American Constitution -- A Machine for Self Governance Premised Upon Structured Conflict.
- 08.G: Getting Broader Perspective -- There is Parliamentary Philosophy Hidden Beneath the Constitutional Form
- 09.A: Lecture Outline: Ratification, Democracy, Political Parties, and the Early Supreme Court
- 09.B: Class Announcements
- 09.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 09.D: Ratification of the Constitution
- 09.E: How Democratic Was the New Republic?
- 09.F: Hamiliton v. Jefferson -- The Development of Political Parties in America
- 09.G: A Look at the Early Supreme Court -- Washington Appointments, Circuit Riding, Seriatim Opinions, etc.
- 09.H: How to Brief Cases -- A Brief Introduction.
- 10.A: Lecture Introduction: Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review in the New Republic
- 10.B: Class Announcements
- 10.D: The Story of the Judiciary Act of 1789
- 10.E: The Federalists in Retreat -- The Story of the Midnight Judges
- 10.F: Marbury v. Madison -- the Historic Decision
- 10.G: Was Marbury the Product of Partisan Ideology or Was it a Herculean and Correct Exposition of the Law?
- 10.H: Judicial Review in the New Republic
- 11.A: Lecture Outline: The Federalist Supreme Court and Its Early Bouts With Jeffersonian States in the New Republic
- 11.B: Class Announcements
- 11.D: Why Judicial Review Was Controversial -- the Cultural Confusion Produced by the Accident of American Constitutionalism
- 11.E: Chisholm v. Georgia -- Lessons for the Court From its Political Culture
- 11.F: Martin v. Hunter's Lessee -- The Triumph of the Constitution and the Rule of Law?.
- 11.G: McCullough v. Maryland and the National Bank -- Marshall's Logic Strikes Again
- 11.H: Judicial Power, Wisdom & Tyranny in the New Republic
- 11.H: Judicial Power, Wisdom, Tryanny and Politics -- De Tocqueville v. Hamilton
- 12.A: Lecture Outline: An Introduction to Federal Power and John Marshall's Commerce Clause
- 12.B: Class Announcements
- 12.C: Explaining Your Final Course Paper
- 12.D: Warning: Part II of the Course May Be More Difficult!
- 12.F: Introduction to Part II of the Course: Teaching Federal Power Through The Idea of Regime Politics
- 12.G: The Fundamental Problem: What Does The Constitution Actually Allow Congress to Do?
- 12.H: Gibbons v. Ogden: The Facts of the Dispute
- 12.I: Class Discussion: Who Should Have Won the Gibbons Case and What Do You Consider When Answering This Question?
- 12.J: Hercules Strikes Again: The Ruling In Gibbons v. Ogden
- 12.K: Brown v. Maryland and the Original Package Rule
- 13.A: Lecture Outline: The Taney Court's Turn at Defining Federal Power Through the Commerce Clause
- 13.B: Class Announcements
- 13.C: Review of Previous Lecture: John Marshall's Federal Commerce Clause
- 13.E: An Introduction to Roger Brooke Taney
- 13.F: The Taney Court and the Rise of State Police Powers
- 13.G: Roger Taney's Commerce Clause: Cooley and the License Cases
- 14.A: Lecture Outline: Protecting the Economic Goliaths; the Rise of the Laissez Faire Commerce Clause
- 14.B: Class Announcements
- 14.C: Review of Previous Lecture: The Meaning of "Commerce" From Marshall to Taney
- 14.D: Social Transformation in the Late 1800s -- Jefferson's America Dies as Hamilton's America Grows Out of Control
- 14.E: E.C. Knight -- Laissez Faire Protects The Economic Goliaths
- 14.F: Hammer v. Dagenhart -- Laissez Faire Ideology Strikes Again
- 14.G: Understanding What the Laissez Faire Commerce Decisions Actually Did to Protect Industry From Regulation
- 14.H: What a Laissez Faire Commerce Clause Would Actually Look Like, If It Were to Exist
- 14.I: Conceptualizing the Commerce Problem -- What Exactly is "Regulating Commerce?"
- 15.A: Lecture Outline: How Laissez Faire Stole the Taxing Power from the Constitution
- 15.B: Class Announcements
- 15.C: Review of Previous Lectures: Playing Political Football With the Commerce Clause
- 15.D: McCray v. United States -- Taxing Power as it Should Be?
- 15.E: Bailey v. Drexel -- Taxes, Penalties, and Language Games
- 15.F: United States v. Butler -- Laissez Faire's Theft of the Federal Taxing Power.
- 15.G: The Significance of Butler -- Regime Politics Strikes Again.
- 15.H: Another Laissez Faire Victory: How Lochner and Substantive Due Process Stopped the States From Regulating Business
- 15.I: The Begininning of the End for Laissez Faire: The Great Depression and the Failure of Capitalism
- 16.A: Lecture Outline: Custard's Last Stand: Laissez Faire Tries to Stop the Roosevelt Hegemony
- 16.B: Class Announcements
- 16.C: Review of Previous Lecture: The Laissez Faire Decisions.
- 16.D: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Ideological Significance of the New Deal
- 16.E: Schechter Poultry: The Facts and the Decision
- 16.F: The Significance of Schechter and Roosevelt's Reaction to the Decision
- 16.G: Carter v. Carter Coal -- The New Deal is Obstructed Yet Again
- 16.H: The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
- 16.I: Roosevelt's Final Solution to the Laissez Faire Justices -- The Court Packing Plan.
- 17.A: Lecture Outline: Roosevelt Wins Again, And The Second American Republic is Born
- 17.B: Class Announcements
- 17.C: Review of Previous Lecture: Laissez Faire Obstructs the New Deal
- 17.D: West Coast Hotel -- The New Deal's First Attack Squadron Arrives.
- 17.E: What Caused Justice Robert Owens to Switch His Vote?
- 17.F: NLRB -- Out With The Old and In With the New.
- 17.G: Class Discussion: What Does the Court's Switch in NLRB Say About Judging, Power, Politics, Law & Society?
- 17.H: The Roosevelt Court Justices Finally Arrive
- 17.I: Wickard v. Filburn -- To Infinity And Beyond.
- 17.J: Other New Deal Decisions -- You Don't Have to be Regulating Commerce In Order To "Regulate Commerce"
- 17.K: The Significance of New Deal Constitutionalism: Do We Have a Parliamentary System When it Comes to Federal Power?
- 18.A: Lecture Outline: The Rehnquist Court -- David Draws its Sword Against Goliath, but Then Backs Away
- 18.B: Class Announcements
- 18.C: Review of Previous Lecture: The Ascendency of the New Deal's Commerce Clause and the "Second Republic"
- 18.D: Using the "Do-All" Clause to Outlaw Discrimination Instead of Using the Discrimination Clauses From the Civil War Amendments
- 18.E: United States v. Lopez -- The Rehnquist Era Fires Its First Shot.
- 18.F: United States v. Morrison and Breyer's Dissent -- Is the Court Entering a Danger Zone?
- 18.G: Gonzalez v. Raich -- Why Did David Back Away From Goliath?
- 18.H: The Big Picture -- Is the Commerce Problem a Failure of Law or an Intelligent Innovation; and Do We Have a Parliamentary System in Place of Limited Government?
- 19.A: Lecture Outline: The Civil War Cases -- Lincoln, Law, Power & War
- 19.B: Class Announcements
- 19.D: Lincoln and the Civil War -- Was LIncoln Lawless, and Should "Law" Matter in a Time of War?
- 19.E: The Prize Cases -- the Presidency as The Leading Institution During Times of War
- 19.F: Ex Parte Milligan -- When Should Congress or the President Be Able to Suspend Habeas Corpus?
- 19.G: Ex Parte McCardle -- Revoking the Court's Jurisdiction Pursuant to Article III
- 19.H: Are There LImits on the Power of Congress to Revoke the Court's Jurisdiction? If Not, Couldn't You Create a Parliamentary System This Way?
- 19.I: What Do the Civil War Cases and the Other Powers Cases Say About the Court's Function in American Government? Are Powers Cases Different Than Liberty Cases?
- 20.A: Lecture Outline: The President as "Power Ranger" -- The Japanese Internment, the Nazi Saboteurs and the Ideology of Curtiss Wright
- 20.B: Class Announcements
- 20.C: The Social Context of the Japanese Internment -- Discrimination and Hysteria
- 20.D: "The Final Solution" -- Rounding Up American Citizens Because of Their Ethnicity
- 20.E: Fred Korematsu's Story -- What Does it Say About the Court's Function in American Government, and About Supreme Court Judging?
- 20.F: The Case of the Nazi Saboteurs -- How is Quirin Different From Milligan and Was the Result Proper?
- 20.G: Why Didn't Congress' "Captures Clause" Control the Fate of the Enemy Combatants in Quirin?
- 20.H: The Ideology of Curtiss-Wright Versus the Framer's Article II -- Will The Real President Stand Up?
- 20.I: Views About Presidential Power and the Vesting Clause in the 1900s
- 20.J: Belmont and Executive Agreements -- Another Gift of New Power From the Courts?
- 20.K: Conceptualizing How the Court Functions in American Government When Political Hegemony Captures the "Policy Branches"
- 21.A: Lecture Outline: Putting the Breaks on Emergency Presidential Power -- Youngstown, Hamdi & Hamdan
- 21.B: Class Announcements
- 21.C: Summarizing Presidential Power: How the Modern Presidency Changed From a Madisonian to a Hamiltonian Institution
- 21.D: How Emergency Powers Can Be Both Legal and Extra-Legal; and Conceptualizing How Presidential Power Grows During War
- 21.E: Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer -- The Facts of the Case
- 21.F: The Propping Up of Congress in Youngstown -- Were the Liberal/Conservative Views Contradictory, and Does the Middle Position Work?
- 21.G: Dames & Moore -- An Explanation of How Hidden Executive Power Might be Legally Structured
- 21.H: Hamdi -- Detention and the Due Process Ritual
- 21.I: Hamdan -- The Court Props Up Congress, But What if Congress Doesn't Want to Play?
- 22.A: Lecture Outline: Three Epochs in the History of Presidential Power, and Does Liberal Legal Culture Want to Subordinate Article II to Article I?
- 22.B: Class Announcements
- 22.C: Introduction: There Are Three Distinct Epochs in the History of the Construction of Presidential Power in American Government
- 22.D: Epoch I in the Hisotry of Executive Power -- The Framer's Presidency: A Race Car Without an Engine?
- 22.E: Epoch II in the History of Executive Power -- The Age of the American Caesar
- 22.F: Epoch III in the History of Executive Power -- Liberal Legal Culture Reigns in the President's Emergency Prerogatives
- 22.G: Class Discussion: Does Liberal Legal Culture Represent a Threat to Article II Constitutionalism? Are Article I Powers More Legitimate Than Article II Powers?
- 23.A: Lecture Outline and Annoucements -- Presidents, Starting War and Evading Law?
- 23.B: Review of Previous Lecture: Three Epochs in Presidential Power
- 23.C: So Who Really Has The Power To Start War Anyhow? Do Presidents Abuse Their Shooting Capacity? Is the War Powers Act Constitutional?
- 23.D: Presidents and the Rule of Law -- Pardons and Impeachment
- 23.E: Presidents and the Rule of Law -- Investigating and Suing Presidents, and Executive Privilege
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- February 17, 2008 - February 23, 2008 (7)
- February 10, 2008 - February 16, 2008 (36)
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