Introduction
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Group Project
Details
All the listed readings are from the Epstein and
Walker text.
Week 1 (August 22)
Topic: History and Principles of the Constitution, and Different
Modes of Constitutional Interpretation
Readings: pp. 3-10; 23-33
Assignment 1
Week 2 (August 29)
Topic: The Development of
Judicial Review
Readings: pp. 64-79
Assignment 2
Week 3 (September 5) [Sept. 5
is Labor Day and there will be no class]
Topic: Formal Constraints on Judicial Review
Readings: pp. 89-114
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Week 4 (September 12)
Topic: Sources and Scope of Legislative
Power
Readings: pp. 143-177
Assignment 3
Week 5 (September 19)
Topic: The Commerce Power
Readings: pp. 400-444
Assignment 4
Week 6 (September 26)
Topic: Limits on the Commerce Power
Readings: pp. 445-464
Mid-Term-October 14
Week 7 (October 3)
Topic: Regulating Commerce as a Federal Police Power
Readings: pp.464-471
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Week 8 (October 10)
Topic: Taxing and Spending Power
Readings: pp. 492-493; 518-530
Assignment 5
Week 9 (October 17)
Topic: Federalism: Early Concerns
Readings: pp. 330-350
Week 10 (October 24)
Topic: More Recent Federalism Trends
Readings: pp. 350-371; 378-384
Assignment 6
Week 11 (October 31)
Topic: Commerce Power of the States
Readings: pp. 471-490
Week 12
(November 7)
Topic: Taxing and Spending Power of the States
Readings: pp. 534-544
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Week 13 (November
14)
Topic: The Contours of Presidential Power
Readings: pp. 194-207
Assignment 7
Fall Break [November 21-25]
Week 14 (November
28)
Topic: Executive Privilege and Immunity
Readings: pp. 223-241
Week 15 (December 5)
Topic: Presidential War Powers
Readings: pp. 273-285; 286-290; 307-320
Final-Week of December 12
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