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Known for fastidious revising and streamlining, the authors account for the latest scholarship in the field and offer rock-solid analysis of recent landmark cases, including as all the important opinions handed down through 2011.  Building on the successes of the 7th edition, the book’s clean layout and design clearly distinguishes between commentary and opinion excerpts.   Not only does the design make the book an easier read for students, it effectively showcases photos, justice biographies, and the “Aftermath” and “Global Perspective” sidebars.   And based on positive user feedback, the authors have added even more Aftermath boxes in this new edition.

New cases in the 8th edition:

• Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)
• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
• United States v. Jones (2012)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Thoroughly updated for currency, scholarship, and recent landmark cases
• The material on the boundaries of free expression has been reorganized to focus not only the traditional topics of libel and obscenity but also on emerging areas of government concern—for example, cruelty and violence.
• Chapter 4 adds new material on government involvement in the internal affairs of religious organizations, with an excerpt from Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012).
• Chapter 5 provides expanded coverage of hateful and offen¬sive speech and now includes an excerpt from Snyder v. Phelps (2011)—an attempt by Westboro Baptist Church to win First Amendment protection for its antigay, anti-Catholic demonstrations at military funerals.
• Chapter 11 to include a discussion of the Court’s reintroduction of the impor¬tance of physical intrusions in determining Fourth Amendment search and seizure violations, highlighted by an excerpt from the GPS tracking case of United States v. Jones (2012)
• Chapter 14’s coverage of campaign finance issues we have added an excerpt from the Court’s contro¬versial decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010).
• New Annotated Readings section points students to relvant and important works for further reasearch

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• Aftermath boxes show what happened after the verdicts were handed down

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Take your constitutional law class beyond the book with Epstein and Walker’s new online Resource Center, featuring more than 400 excerpted, supplemental cases mentioned or referenced in the commentary of the Constitutional Law for a Changing America volumes. The authors excerpted each of these supporting cases, following the same format as those appearing in the printed text (includes the justices’ votes, a summary of case facts, and a carefully edited version of the justices’ opinions).

Student will also find new features:

• Resources from CQ Press's award-winning Library-Reference publications, including historical background, commentary and analysis, justice biographies, as well as statistical information and data
• Thirty Hypothetical Cases paired with discussion questions and writing assignments
• Interactive Flashcards of key terms
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New cases in the 8th edition:

• Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)
• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
• United States v. Jones (2012)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Thoroughly updated for currency, scholarship, and recent landmark cases
• The material on the boundaries of free expression has been reorganized to focus not only the traditional topics of libel and obscenity but also on emerging areas of government concern—for example, cruelty and violence.
• Chapter 4 adds new material on government involvement in the internal affairs of religious organizations, with an excerpt from Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012).
• Chapter 5 provides expanded coverage of hateful and offen¬sive speech and now includes an excerpt from Snyder v. Phelps (2011)—an attempt by Westboro Baptist Church to win First Amendment protection for its antigay, anti-Catholic demonstrations at military funerals.
• Chapter 11 to include a discussion of the Court’s reintroduction of the impor¬tance of physical intrusions in determining Fourth Amendment search and seizure violations, highlighted by an excerpt from the GPS tracking case of United States v. Jones (2012)
• Chapter 14’s coverage of campaign finance issues we have added an excerpt from the Court’s contro¬versial decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010).
• New Annotated Readings section points students to relvant and important works for further reasearch

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Chronological Table of Cases 
Tables, Figures, and Boxes 
Preface 
I. THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CONSTITUTION 
The Living Constitution 
The Road to the Bill of Rights 
The Amendment Process 
The Supreme Court and the Amendment Process 
     1.Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court 

Processing Supreme Court Cases 
Supreme Court Decision Making: The Role of Law and Legal Methods 
Supreme Court Decision Making: The Role of Politics 
Conducting Research on the Supreme Court 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     2.The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints 

Judicial Review 
Marbury v. Madison (1803) 
Constraints on Judicial Power  
Ex parte McCardle (1869) 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     3.Incorporation of the Bill of Rights 

Must States Abide by the Bill of Rights? Initial Responses 
Barron v. Baltimore (1833) 
Incorporation through the Fourteenth Amendment: Early Interpretations 
Hurtado v. California (1884) 
A Standard Emerges 
Palko v. Connecticut (1937) 
Incorporation in the Aftermath of Palko 
Duncan v. Louisiana (1968) 
READINGS 
II. CIVIL LIBERTIES  
Approaching Civil Liberties 
     4.Religion: Exercise and Establishment 

Defining Religion 
Free Exercise of Religion 
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) 
Sherbert v. Verner (1963) 
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) 
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) 
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) 
Religious Establishment 
Everson v. Board of Education (1947) 
Lemon v. Kurtzman; Earley v. DiCenso (1971) 
Agostini v. Felton (1997) 
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) 
Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) 
School District of Abington Township v. Schempp; Murray v. Curlett (1963) 
Lee v. Weisman (1992) 
Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)
ANNOTATED READINGS  
     5.Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association 

The Development of Legal Standards: The Emergence of Law in Times of Crisis 
Schenck v. United States (1919) 
Abrams v. United States (1919) 
Gitlow v. New York (1925) 
Dennis v. United States (1951) 
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) 
Contemporary Tests and Constitutional Guidelines 
Content and Contexts 
United States v. O’Brien (1968) 
Texas v. Johnson (1989) 
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942) 
Cohen v. California (1971) 
Hill v. Colorado (2000) 
R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota (1992) 
Snyder v. Phelps (2011) 
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) 
Morse v. Frederick (2007) 
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) 
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. (2006) 
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1977) 
Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York (1980) 
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     6.Freedom of the Press 

Prior Restraint  
Near v. Minnesota (1931) 
New York Times v. United States (1971) 
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988) 
Government Control of Press Content 
News Gathering and Special Rights 
Branzburg v. Hayes (1972) 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     7.The Boundaries of Free Expression: Libel, Obscenity, and Emerging Areas of Government Concern 

Libel 
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) 
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)
Obscenity 
Roth v. United States (1957) 
Miller v. California (1973) 
New York v. Ferber (1982) 
Cruelty and Violence
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     8.The First Amendment and the Internet

Shielding Children from Access to Sexually Explicit Material 
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997) 
Prohibiting Child Pornography 
United States v. Williams (2008) 
Emerging Issues 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     9.The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Initial Interpretations 
The Second Amendment Revisited 
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) 
Heller and the States 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     10.The Right to Privacy 

The Right to Privacy: Foundations 
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 
Reproductive Freedom and the Right to Privacy: Abortion 
Roe v. Wade (1973) 
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) 
Private Activities and the Application of Griswold 
Lawrence v. Texas (2003) 
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990) 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
III. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED 
The Criminal Justice System and Constitutional Rights 
Overview of the Criminal Justice System 
Trends in Court Decision Making 
     11.Investigations and Evidence 

Searches and Seizures 
Katz v. United States (1967) 
United States v. Jones (2012)
Illinois v. Gates (1983) 
Arizona v. Gant (2009) 
Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding (2009) 
Terry v. Ohio (1968) 
Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: The Exclusionary Rule 
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) 
United States v. Leon (1984) 
Hudson v. Michigan (2006) 
Herring v. United States (2009) 
The Fifth Amendment and Self-Incrimination 
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) 
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 
Missouri v. Seibert (2004) 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     12.Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments 

The Right to Counsel 
Powell v. Alabama (1932) (The Scottsboro Boys Case) 
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
The Pretrial Period and the Right to Bail 
The Sixth Amendment and Fair Trials 
Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 
Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966) 
Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia (1980) 
Trial Proceedings 
Final Trial Stage: An Overview of Sentencing 
The Eighth Amendment 
Gregg v. Georgia (1976) 
Atkins v. Virginia (2002) 
Post-Trial Protections and the Double Jeopardy Clause 
Postrelease Protections 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
IV. CIVIL RIGHTS 
Civil Rights and the Constitution 
The Fourteenth Amendment 
The Fifteenth Amendment 
     13.Discrimination  

Racial Discrimination  
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 
Sweatt v. Painter (1950) 
Brown v. Board of Education (I) (1954) 
Brown v. Board of Education (II) (1955) 
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) 
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1; Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (2007) 
Loving v. Virginia (1967) 
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) 
Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority (1961) 
Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis (1972) 
Sex Discrimination 
Reed v. Reed (1971) 
Craig v. Boren (1976) 
United States v. Virginia (1996) 
Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation 
Romer v. Evans (1996) 
Discrimination Based on Economic Status 
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) 
Discrimination against Aliens  
Plyler v. Doe (1982) 
Remedying the Effects of Discrimination: Affirmative Action 
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) 
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña (1995) 
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) 
Contemporary Developments in Discrimination Law 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
     14.Voting and Representation 

Elections and the Court 
Bush v. Gore (2000) 
Voting Rights 
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)  
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (2008) 
Regulation of Election Campaigns 
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) 
Political Representation 
Reynolds v. Sims (1964) 
Miller v. Johnson (1995) 
ANNOTATED READINGS 
Reference Material 
Constitution of the United States 
Federalist Paper, No. 78 
U.S. Presidents 
Thumbnail Sketch of the Supreme Court’s History 
The Justices 
Natural Courts 
Supreme Court Calendar 
Briefing Supreme Court Cases 
Glossary 
Online Case Archive Index 
Subject Index 
Case Index 
Image Credits 
About the Authors 

Study aids for students. . .

With more than 400 supplemental cases that are mentioned or referenced in the text’s commentary, this online archive has been compiled and edited with great care—the authors have excerpted each case in the same format as those in the text, featuring the justices’ votes, a summary of case facts, and a carefully edited version of the justices’ opinions. The authors continue to post recent cases as soon as each Supreme Court term ends, keeping this invaluable resource as current as possible.

Students will also find interactive online flashcards with glossary terms and archival materials for selected landmark cases with audio clips, docket sheets, conference notes, and key memos sent between the justices.

As with other editions of Constitutional Law for a Changing America, students purchasing new copies will enjoy free access to http://clca.cqpress.com.  Students with used copies may purchase access here.

Instructor's Resources available for adopters!

Instructor's Resources (created by Timothy Johnson, University of Minnesota) include:

• Discussion questions for every chapter
• The book’s tables, figures, and photos available for download
• PowerPoint lecture slides for every chapter
• And revised and update test questions that include multiple-choice, essay, and hypotheticals.

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