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volume 1. English and colonial origins -- Independence and nationhood -- A more perfect union -- Launching the new government -- Jeffersonian republicanism -- John Marshall and judicial nationalism -- Majority rule and sectional rights -- More power to the states -- Slavery and the constitution -- The crisis of the union -- Reconstructing the nation -- Promises betrayed -- Property rights and judicial activism -- volume 2. Progressivism and the new nationalism -- World War I and the Constitution -- Normalcy and reaction -- The New Deal revolution -- The new constitutionalism -- World War II and the Constitution -- The era of the Cold War -- Earl Warren takes the helm -- A decade of change and progress -- The new judicial activism -- Nationalizing criminal due process -- And era of discord and crisis -- Progress on First Amendment rights -- Civil rights and affirmative action -- Protecting individual liberty -- Criminal due process after Warren -- Civilizing the death penalty -- Politics and the Constitution -- The new millennium -- The Roberts court.

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.