Authors: Jay Wexler
Saxbe, William, 13
Scalia, Antonin, 169
Schwarzkopf, Norman, xiii, 139â40, 148â49
Second Amendment, xiv
Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 174
Selective Service System v. Minnesota PIRG,
167
separation of powers, 3â7, 9â11, 15â19.
See also
incompatibility clause; ineligibility clause
shrews, ix, xvii
Sixteenth Amendment, 104
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, 192
Society of the Cincinnati, 144â45
Spudich v. Smarr,
110, 111
Starr, Kenneth, 6, 112
State Board of Equalization of California v. Young's Market Co.,
107â8
Stevens, John Paul, 74
Story, Joseph, 83
Supreme Court, U.S.: “anti-animus” rule, 169; on bills of attainder, 159, 165â68; congressional power limitations, 26â27; dormant commerce clause doctrine, 74â75, 102â4, 107â8, 112; Ellis Island case, 57â59, 70, 73â74; hypothetical case transcript, 112â15; on individual liberties, 108â9; Insular Cases decisions, 89; judicial review power of, 4, 62â63; on obscenity, 98; original-jurisdictional power of, xii, 60â64, 69, 75, 193; original package doctrine, 104; political doctrine question use, 125; right to privacy decisions, 179; on the separation of powers, 5â6; special master appointments, 69â71; standing doctrine application, 9â10; on state-imposed legislative term limits, 80; state-
versus
-state cases, 59, 65â69, 74â75; substantive due process doctrine, 180; support of congressional delegation of power, 33â34; Tenth Amendment application, 101; three-part tests, 167â68; on the Twenty-first Amendment, 98â99, 107â9, 111â12; on war powers, 124â25.
See also
constitutional interpretation
Tenth Amendment, 101â2
Texas v. Florida, et al.,
68
Third Amendment: humor, 187; and limitations on military power, 189â90; quartering of troops under, xiii, 177â78, 184â86, 188, 190â92, 193; relevance of, 192â93; and the right to privacy, 178, 181â82, 188â89; text, 177
“Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year”
(Onion),
187
Thirteenth Amendment, 106, 141
Tillman, Seth Barrett, 8â9, 52â54
Tillman Adjournment, 52â54
title of nobility clauses: frivolous arguments under, 152â54; history of, xvi, 142â45, 147, 149â51; legacy preferences and, 154â56; and officers of the United States, xii, 139â40, 145, 147â49; and private individuals and organizations, 144â48; relevance of, 193; text, 139, 143; and U.S. immigration law, 145, 147
“Titles of Nobility, Hereditary Privilege, and the Unconstitutionality of Legacy Preferences in Public School Admissions” (Larson), 155
titles of nobility amendment, 149â52, 155
“torture memo,” 125â26
Treaty of Paris (1856), 129
Tribe, Laurence, 89â90, 106â7
Tribe-Olson memorandum, 89â90
Twelfth Amendment, 94
Twenty-fifth Amendment, 92â93
Twenty-first Amendment, xvii, 99, 104, 106â11
Twenty-seventh Amendment, 150â51
Udden, J. A., 147â48
United States Metric Board, 32, 34â35, 36, 37
United States Statutes at Large
(Library of Congress), 151â52
United States v. Lopez,
26
United States v. Lovett,
166
United States v. Virginia,
142
“Unnatural Born Citizens and Acting Presidents” (Ho), 94â95
Utah prairie dogs, 18â19
Van Buren, Martin, 83
Van Devanter, Willis, 180
Verkuil, Paul, 70
vesting clause, 59â60
Violence Against Women Act, 27
Virginia, United States v.,
142
Volstead Act, 105
Voting Rights Act (1965), 24
War and Responsibility
(Ely), 132
war powers allocation, xvi, 121â27, 131â33.
See also
letters of marque and reprisal clause
War Powers Resolution, 124
Warren, Earl, 167
wartime troop quartering, xiii
Washington, George, 12, 27, 46, 83, 144â45
Webb-Kenyon Act, 104, 107
weights and measures clause,
21â23, 27â29, 32, 37, 193.
See also
metric system
West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish,
181
“Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President” (Chin), 91
Wickersham, George W., 147â48
Wilson, Woodrow, 2, 16â17
wombats, ix, xvii
Wuerth, Ingrid Brunk, 134
Yablon-Zug, Marcia, 110â11
Yackle, Larry, 64â65
Yoo, John, 123â24, 125â26, 132â33
Young's Market Co., State Board of Equalization of California v.,
107â8
zebra mussel, 95
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The odd clauses : understanding the Constitution
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