Constitutional Law Full Outline

Vicki Schultz
Fall 2021
INTRODUCTION TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
a. Baker v. Carr (1962)

Judicial Power
1. Judicial Review
b. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
2. Slavery Cases: Original Meaning / Deferential Review
a. Note on States’ Rights, Slavery, and the Taney Court, 1836-1864
b. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
3. Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Revolution: Original Meaning, Legal Process,
Popular Constitutionalism
a. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
b. Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)
c. Cooper v. Aaron
4. Northern Desegregation/Resegregation Cases: Institutional Competence, Declining Popular
Consensus
a. Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
b. Institutional Competence and Theories of Judicial Restraint (CB 175-179)
5. Popular Constitutionalism / Skepticism
a. Bush v. Gore (2000)

FEDERALISM
1. Foundations: Federal Power, State Sovereignty, Slavery
b. McCullough v. Maryland (1819)
c. Federalist No. 51
6. Federal Power, Territorial Status
a. Fitisemanu v. United States
b. Aziz Rana, How We Study the Constitution: Rethinking the Insular Cases and Modern
American Empire (2020)
7. Federal Power, Tribal Sovereignty
a. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
b. Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
c. United States v. Nice (1916)
d. McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)
8. Congress’ Authority Under the Reconstruction Amendments
a. Note on Reconstruction, 1864-1896
b. Civil Rights Cases (1883)
c. Katzenbach cases
d. City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
e. United States v. Morrison (2000)
9. Congressional Power Under the Commerce Clause
a. Gibbons v. Ogden
b. Heart of Atlanta v. McClung (1964)
c. United States v. Lopez (1995)
10. Modern Application of Commerce, Tax and Spend, Necessary and Proper Clause: The
Affordable Care Act Case
a. National Fed. of Indep. Business v. Sebelius (2012)
b. Gillian E. Metzger, To Tax, To Spend, To Regulate (2012)
THE BILL OF RIGHTS, STATES, AND THE RISE OF MODERN DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION LAW
1. The Privilege and Immunities Clause and the Incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the 14th
Amendment Due Process Clause
c. Enforcing Unenumerated Rights (Incorporation) (CB 485-492)
d. Adamson v. California (1947)
e. MacDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
11. Labor and Economic Rights
a. Lochner v. New York (1905)
b. Nebbia v. New York (1934)
c. West Coast Parish Hotel (1937)
d. United States v. Carolene Products
e. Williamson v. Lee Optical

EQUAL PROTECTION
1. Racial Classification/ Segregation / Stigmatization
f. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
g. Korematsu v. United States (1944)
h. Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
12. Standards of Proof and Violation: Purpose, Effects
a. Loving v. Virginia (1967)
b. Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
c. Griggs v. Duke Power (1971)
d. Washington v. Davis (1976)
e. Palmer v. Thompson (1971)
13. Affirmative Action—Why and How?
a. Introductory Notes (CB 281-293)
b. City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson (1989)
c. Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
d. Parents Involved (2007)
14. Sex and Gender
a. Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
b. Craig v. Boren
c. United States v. Virginia (1996)
d. Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney (1979)
e. Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)
15. Other Suspect Classifications
a. San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973)
b. City of Cleburne (1985)
c. Romer v. Evans (1996)

SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS / PRIVACY

1. Procreation and Parenting
d. Buck v. Bell (1927)
e. Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson (1942)
f. Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
g. Poe v. Ullman (1961)
h. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
 i. Robert Bork, First Amendment and the Right to Privacy
j. Wisconsin v. Yoder
16. Abortion
a. Roe v. Wade (1973)
b. Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1994)
c. Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)
17. Consensual Sexuality and Marriage
a. Loving v. Virginia (1967)
b. Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
c. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

SEPARATION OF POWERS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

1. Executive Aggrandizement
d. Federalist Nos. 10, 47 & 51
e. The Steel Seizure Case (1952)
f. Zivotofky v. Kerry (2015)
18. Executive Privilege, Impeachment, Removal Power, the “Unitary Executive”
a. United States v. Nixon (1974)
b. Clinton v. Jones (1997)
c. Bowsher v. Synar (1986)
d. Morrison v. Olson (1988)
e. Trump v. Vance (2020)
f. Trump v. Mazars (2020)
19. War on Terror, Travel Ban Cases, and the Rule of Law
a. Ex Parte Quirin (1942)
b. Phillip Bobbit, Terror and Consent (2008)
c. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2006)
d. Trump v. Hawaii (2018)