Read America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By Online
Authors: Akhil Reed Amar
marijuana,
124
Marshall, John,
7
,
16
,
21
,
139
,
152
,
199
,
231
,
234
,
319
,
356
,
357
,
408
Cohens v. Virginia
and,
256
Marbury v. Madison
and,
205
,
208–209
,
211
,
237–238
,
256–257
,
421
McCulloch v. Maryland
and,
22–31
,
68
,
86
,
162
,
208
,
255–257
,
284–285
,
421
Marshall, Thomas,
462
n
Marshall, Thurgood,
267
n
,
296
,
417
,
441
,
446
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
,
7
,
21
Mason, Stevens Thomson,
331
and ratification,
58–61
McClean, John,
66
McCulloch v. Maryland
,
22–31
,
68
,
86
,
90
,
101
,
110
,
162
,
208
,
255–257
,
421
McDaniel v. Paty
,
220
McPherson, Edward,
348–349
Military Reconstruction Act,
see
First Reconstruction Act
Miranda v. Arizona
,
153
,
230
,
439
Missouri Compromise,
272
Mitchell, John,
372
Monroe, James,
317
Montesquieu,
8
Monticello, VA,
268
Montpelier, VA,
268
Morrill, Lot,
379
Morris, Gouverneur,
9
,
16
,
43
,
62
,
317
,
392
,
476
Morrison v. Olson
,
375–376
Mount Rushmore,
251
Mount Vernon, VA,
268
Muskie, Edmund,
379
Nader, Ralph,
411
n
Napoleon,
317
National Archives,
64
,
67
,
253
n
,
255
National Constitution Center,
255
National Labor Relations Board,
381
national popular vote,
457–459
,
461–463
and National Popular Vote (NPV) Initiative,
457
National Security Council,
396
National Transportation Safety Board,
409
necessary-and-proper clause,
23–25
,
27–29
,
348
,
357
,
386
nemo judex in causa sua
principle,
7
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
18
,
21
,
74
,
210
Neutrality Act (1794),
319
Neutrality Proclamation (1793),
318–319
,
339
,
432
New Hampshire
Constitution (1784) of,
467
and ratification,
59–61
New London, CT,
132
New York Times Co. v. United States
,
34
,
155
New York Times v. Sullivan
,
153
,
155–156
,
167
,
170
,
172
,
195
,
198
,
216–218
,
222
New Zealand,
464
Nineteenth Amendment,
185
,
189
,
197
,
271
,
279
,
281–294
,
300
,
305
,
401–402
,
406
,
408
,
434
n
,
441
,
455
Ninth Amendment,
34
,
113
,
136
,
158–159
,
169
,
196
,
203
,
211
,
238–239
,
296
,
303
,
386–387
,
434
enumerated and unenumerated rights in,
98–100
,
102–103
,
106–109
,
116
,
124–125
,
154
Nixon, Richard,
34
,
156
,
316
,
372
,
376–377
,
379
,
462
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
484
North Atlantic Council of,
206
North Carolina,
32–33
,
36–38
,
43
,
57
,
458
and Nineteenth Amendment,
402
Northwest Ordinance,
247
,
249–252
,
258–263
,
271–272
Northwest Territory,
262
Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson),
358
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
409
Nuremberg,
283
oaths, oath taking,
24
,
181
,
237
,
419–422
and criminal proceedings,
104–105
,
107
,
153
,
176
,
178
and judges, justices,
143
,
172
,
204–207
,
234–235
and presidents,
203
,
253
,
307
,
343
n
Obama, Barack,
84
,
267–268
,
321
,
379
,
456
and oath of office,
343
n
Ohio River,
260
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
484
Otis, James,
59
Paris, France,
317
Parks, Rosa,
267
Patriots (political party),
394
Patterson, David,
4
Paulson, Henry,
321–322
Pennsylvania,
28
,
31
,
43
,
52
,
127
,
249
,
253
,
264
,
359
,
458–459
and ratification,
60–62
Pentagon Papers case,
34
Pepperdine Law School,
377
n
Perkins, Frances,
291
Philadelphia,
253
and World’s Fair,
67
Philadelphia Convention,
9–12
,
14
,
17
,
21
,
25
,
28
,
43
,
51
,
62–64
,
72
,
73
,
102
,
125
,
257
,
358
,
394
and Committee of Style,
65
journal of,
67
Pitt, William,
128–129
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
,
201
,
235–236
,
240–241
Pledge of Allegiance,
251
Plessy v. Ferguson
,
143
,
149
,
197
,
199
,
213–214
,
270
,
272–274
poll tax,
185
,
188
,
190–191
,
405
,
406
n
,
see also
voting
popular-sovereignty theory,
37
Powell v. Alabama
,
152
Preamble,
27
,
55–56
,
63
,
72
,
73
,
75
,
101
,
103
,
143
,
145
,
169
,
203
president,
see also
first lady
,
independent agencies
,
independent counsels
,
Twelfth
and
Twenty-fifth Amendments
direct election of,
452
,
457–459
,
461–463
immunity from prosecution,
38–39
,
41
,
44
,
45
impeachment of,
4
,
11–12
,
14–16
,
42–44
,
372
,
429
Office of Legal Counsel of,
339
and opinions clause,
320
,
326–327
powers of,
38–39
,
44–45
,
312
,
315
,
384–386
privileges of,
43–44
succession of,
4
,
17–19
,
349
,
404
,
462
n
Presidential Succession Statute (1947),
403–404
primary elections,
403
,
405–408
,
412
,
416
principal-agent law,
37
Printz v. United States
,
256
privileges-or-immunities clause,
118–121
,
125
,
134
,
162
,
186
,
187
“Publius,”
13
,
28
,
42
,
255–257
;
see also
Federalist
;
Hamilton, Alexander
;
Madison, James
Publius II,
485
Puerto Rico,
259
Randall, Robert,
339
Rawls, John,
475
Read, George,
253
Reconstruction Amendments,
see
Thirteenth
,
Fourteenth
, and
Fifteenth Amendments