America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (103 page)

Bayard Jr., James A.,
3

Bayard Sr., James A.,
3

Beardmore v. Carrington
,
128
n

Beloved
,
247

Bennett, Robert,
457
n

Bentsen, Lloyd,
379

Bill of Rights,
34
,
90
,
101
,
102
,
109
,
111
,
116
,
117
,
124
,
142
,
254
,
352
,
395
,
424
,
434
,
436
,
451

    
and free speech,
54

    
and Northwest Ordinance,
260

    
origin of the phrase,
157–158

    
as pre-partisan,
400–401

    
and property,
126

    
and state government,
84
,
133–134
,
141
,
270
,
467

    
and Warren Court,
151–153
,
157
,
159
,
163
,
165
,
176–177
,
195
,
198
,
215

“Bills of Attainder,”
144

Bingham, John,
157–158
,
162
,
262

“Black Codes,”
146
,
149–150
,
296–297

Black, Hugo,
142
,
165
,
176
,
178–179
,
182–183
,
196
,
379

Blackmun, Harry,
30
,
123
,
201
on death penalty,
446–447

blacks,
170
,
195
,
268–269
,
402
,
see also
“Black Codes,”
Brown v. Board of Education
,
Dred Scott v. Sanford,
Jim Crow laws
,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
slavery

    
in Congress,
151

    
and Fourteenth Amendment,
79
,
146

    
on juries,
441

    
in military,
92

    
voting rights of,
81–82
,
85–86
,
141
,
145
,
184
,
186–187
,
191–193
,
214
,
265
,
437

Blackstone, William,
7–11
,
40
,
74
,
102
,
367
,
424
,
431
,
445
,
see also
Commentaries on the Laws of England

Bolling v. Sharpe
,
143
,
145
,
172
,
195
,
197
,
198
,
211–212
,
221
,
269
,
293

Bonham’s Case
,
7

Bram v. United States
,
153

Brandenburg v. Ohio
,
155

Brennan, William,
142
,
151–152
,
154
,
192–193
,
196
,
345
,
417
,
446

Breyer, Stephen,
441

British Constitution,
257
,
367

Brown, John,
38

Brown v. Board of Education
,
22
,
142–143
,
145
,
148–149
,
151
,
172
,
194–195
,
197–199
,
211–216
,
221
,
230
,
247
,
249
,
250
,
264–267
,
269
,
293
,
357

Brown v. United States
,
155

Buchanan, Pat,
411
n

Buck v. Bell
,
483

Buckley v. Valeo
,
409

Burger, Warren,
191

Burr, Aaron,
40
n
,
397

Bush, George H.W.,
374–375
,
377

Bush, George W.
321
,
411
n
,
474

Bush v. Gore
,
195

Bushell’s Case
,
423

Cabinet, U.S.,
17
,
19
,
40–41
,
290
,
307
,
310
,
324–325
,
328–329

    
of George Washington,
320
,
330

California,
132
,
134–135
,
180
,
195
n
,
250
,
365
,
455
,
458
,
470
,
475

Camden, Lord,
128
,
174
,
177

Cantwell v. Connecticut
,
152

Carroll, Daniel,
9

Carter, Jimmy,
314
,
316
,
379
,
404

Chase, Salmon P.,
262

    
and Johnson impeachment,
3–4
,
14–15

    
as chief justice,
1

Chase, Samuel,
40
n
,
101

checks and balances,
6
,
237

Chicago,
14

Childs, Francis,
66

China,
314
,
316

Christianity,
70–71
,
74–76

    
and Bible,
76
,
252
,
307

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
,
195
n

Civil Rights Act (1866),
150
,
187

Civil Rights Act (1964),
84
,
267

Civil War,
67
,
82
,
85
,
93
,
110
,
145
,
170
,
173
,
186–187
,
199
,
251
,
262
,
264
,
312
,
325
,
437
,
476
,
480

Clark, Tom C.,
229

Claypoole, David C.,
66

Clinton, Bill,
291
,
372
,
374
,
375
,
377
,
379

Clinton, George,
394

Clinton, Hillary,
290–291
,
374
,
379

Clymer, George,
253

Cohens v. Virginia
,
256

Coke, Edward,
7
,
40

Colfax, Schuyler,
18

Commentaries on the Constitution
,
257

Commentaries on the Laws of England
(Blackstone),
7–8
,
20
,
28
,
113
,
167–168
,
175
,
210
,
211
,
212
,
425–426

Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution,
255

Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
409

Confederation Congress,
72
,
73
,
206
,
252
,
258
,
260
,
311
,
394
,
484

Congress, U.S.,
see also
First Congress
,
House of Representatives
,
legislative veto
,
Senate

    
and
Article I
,
section 6
,
35–36

    
and Bank of the United States,
23–24

    
and draft,
92

    
and ex-post-facto laws,
9

    
and First Amendment,
29
,
33

    
immunity from prosecution,
35
,
39–40

    
powers of,
24
,
27–28
,
312
,
335–342

    
and Reconstruction era,
151
,
157
,
160–161
,
190
,
401

    
Second of,
318

    
Third of,
318

    
Thirty-eighth of,
348

    
Thirty-ninth of,
348

Connecticut,
118
,
130
,
253
,
291–293

conscription,
see
draft

Constitution, U.S. (as written document),
See also
Declaration of Independence
;
Philadelphia Convention

    
and contraception,
117–121

    
dissemination of,
65–66

    
and draft,
90–94

    
on executive officials,
384

    
and free expression,
29
,
33–55

    
and immunity,
46

    
interpretation of,
19
,
22
,
26

    
and Judicial Article,
101
,
107
,
160
,
206
,
208–209
,
232
,
234
,
238
,
240
,
284
,
310

    
literal reading of,
5
,
20
,
21
,
25–26
,
47
,
69

    
opposite meanings in,
6

    
original enactment of,
51–52

    
purpose of,
27

    
ratification of,
13
,
28
,
52
,
53
,
55–60
,
63–64
,
66
,
68
,
74

    
religious neutrality of,
70–77

    
and self-referential clauses,
203–206

    
as supreme law,
10
,
205

    
textual boundaries of,
71–73

    
and textual isolation,
6

    
versions of,
64–69

Consumer Products Safety Commission,
381
,
409

Conyers, John,
455

Cosby, William,
424

Costa Rica,
485

Cox, Archibald,
376–377

criminal law,
21
,
99
,
101
,
104–116
,
419
,
423–424
,
see also
Warren Court

    
and defendants,
426–427

    
and grand juries,
430

    
and judges,
40–41

    
and juries,
135
,
153
,
163
,
432–438

    
and president,
428–432

    
and trials,
42

Curtis, Benjamin,
21

Curtis, George Ticknor,
21
,
see also
Dred Scott v. Sanford

“Decision of 1789,”
321–324
,
330–332
,
339
,
342
,
354
,
373
,
383–84
,
404

Declaration of Independence,
31
,
61
,
67
,
70
,
75
,
109
,
114
,
150
,
158
,
247–255
,
261
,
420

Delaware,
62

Democrat Party,
15
,
83
,
142
,
147
,
158
,
227
,
266
,
291
,
366
,
377
,
395
,
398–402
,
410
,
412
,
455

Dennis v. United States
,
155

Department of Justice,
see
Justice Department

District of Columbia,
36
,
98
,
160
,
402
,
457–458

District of Columbia v. Heller
,
154