Read America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By Online
Authors: Akhil Reed Amar
religious schools,
220–222
Republican Party,
16
,
85
,
160
n
,
169–170
,
187
,
262
,
393
,
395–399
,
401
,
456
,
see
also
Reconstruction Republicans
,
res judicata
,
210
Reynolds v. Sims
,
192–194
,
195–196
,
197
,
198
,
224–227
,
230
,
261
n
,
357
,
463
,
470
Rock v. Arkansas
,
106
Roe v. Wade
,
122–123
,
154
,
201
,
230
,
235
,
291–292
Roosevelt, Eleanor,
290–291
Roosevelt, Franklin,
290–291
,
414
and Supreme Court,
354
“rule of necessity, the,”
18
Rule 22,
see
Senate, U.S.
Sacramento, CA,
195n
St. Clair, Arthur,
338–339
Salazar, Ken,
379
Saturday Night Massacre,
377
,
see also
Watergate scandal
Saxbe, William,
379
Scalia, Antonin,
23
,
134–135
,
231
,
375–377
,
448
Schmerber v. California
,
180–183
,
223
Schwarzenegger, Arnold,
455
,
471
Scott, Dred,
21
;
see also
Dred Scott v. Sanford
“Scottsboro boys,”
152
Second Amendment,
90–91
,
130
,
154
,
159–160
,
165–166
,
216
,
434–435
Second Reconstruction,
84
,
433
,
480
Second Treatise of Government
(Locke),
358
Securities and Exchange Commission,
409
Selective Draft Law Cases
(1918),
92
Senate, U.S.,
197
,
see also
Congress and Clinton impeachment
,
372
filibuster system of,
63
,
198
,
357
,
361–367
and Johnson impeachment,
3–4
and Joint Resolution
15
,
453
,
455
and majority rule,
362
Manual of,
67
president pro tempore of,
4
,
5
,
6
,
16–17
,
19
replacement of senators,
345–346
special judicial oath of,
3–4
terms of senators,
350–351
and voting rights,
183
separation of powers,
6
,
219–220
Seven Bishops Case
,
424
Seventeenth Amendment,
345
,
403
,
456
Seventh Amendment,
166
,
216
,
218
,
435
Seymour, Horatio,
400
Sherman, John,
4
Sherman, Roger,
253
Sherman, William Tecumseh,
4
,
262
Sixth Amendment,
108
,
153
,
182
,
216
,
435
,
442–443
and self-defense,
100–101
symmetry in,
111
and witnesses,
99
Skinner v. Oklahoma
,
483
slavery,
38
,
119
,
476
,
see also
Thirteenth Amendment
abolition of,
398
and Declaration of Independence,
254
and Northwest Ordinance,
250
,
258–259
,
261–262
and three-fifths clause,
144
,
184–185
,
261
,
467–468
Slaughter-House Cases
(1873),
162
Souter, David,
441
South Carolina,
184
Constitution (1778) of,
76
Sprague, William,
4
Stamp Act protests,
424
stare decisis
,
210
states
and abortion rights,
122
constitutions of
75–76
,
158
,
463–473
and ex-post-facto laws,
9
and homosexuality,
122
and legalized marijuana,
23
representation of,
4
Stevens, John Paul,
120–121
,
446
Stevens, Thaddeus,
147
suffrage,
see
voting, voting rights
Supreme Court, U.S.,
9
,
18
,
22
,
83
,
85
,
101
,
106
,
429
,
473
,
see also
Warren Court
and chief justice,
5
,
7
,
11
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
357
compensation of,
13
and Congress,
197–198
and conscription,
92–93
and contraception,
117
and death penalty,
446–447
Eisenstadt v. Baird
and,
121
and exclusionary rule,
115
,
222–223
and evidence,
114
and impeachment,
43–44
and inferior courts,
69
and judicial free speech,
40–41
and judicial power,
8
,
101
,
206
,
208–211
,
213
,
217
,
228
,
230–233
,
239–241
,
312
Kelo v. City of New London
and,
132
and majority rule,
360–361
replacement and number of justices in,
343–344
,
353–356
,
413
and symmetry idea,
112
Swaine, John,
66
symmetry in constitutional principles,
58
,
111–112
,
149
Taft, William Howard,
16
,
379
,
401
Taiwan,
314
Taj Mahal,
245
Taylor v. Louisiana
,
287–288
Teapot Dome scandal,
338
Tennessee,
4
,
192
,
224
,
229–230
,
324
n
and Fourteenth Amendment,
80
and Nineteenth Amendment,
402
Tenth Amendment,
158–159
,
165
,
252
,
370
n
,
434
Texas v. Johnson
,
155
and lived rights,
117
Thirteenth Amendment,
86
,
145
,
262–263
,
274
,
286
,
398–399
Thompson, Charles,
66
Thoreau, Henry David,
483
Tinker v. Des Moines
,
153
To Kill a Mockingbird
,
247
Tower of London,
177
Tracy, Spencer,
297
Treasury Department,
14
,
320
,
325
,
384
Tribe, Laurence,
122
Trumbull, Lyman,
262
Twelfth Amendment,
12
,
289
,
389
,
395–397
,
404
,
416
Twelve Angry Men
,
442
Twenty-fifth Amendment,
17
,
41
n
,
289
,
384
n
,
403–405
,
416
,
462
Twenty-fourth Amendment,
185
,
402
,
405–408
,
441
Twenty-second Amendment,
41
n
,
289
,
403
,
405
,
462
Twenty-sixth Amendment,
189
,
191
,
402
,
406
,
408
,
441
Twenty-third Amendment,
402
two-party system,
227
,
389
,
391–392
,
394
,
396
,
400
,
409–410
,
413–415
United Nations,
484
United Nations Security Council,
206
United States Reports
,
83
,
205
,
237
,
254
,
258
United States Sentencing Commission,
409
United States v. Ballin
,
364
United States v. Eichman
,
155
United States v. Hudson & Goodwin
,
319
United States v. Morrison
,
281
,
285
Utah,
295
Valley Forge,
27
Van Winkle, Peter,
4
vice president
as president of the Senate,
6
,
7
Vietnam,
265
Violence Against Women Act,
281