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Cover -- About the Author -- Also from Visible Ink Press -- Photo Sources -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Formation of the United States -- The U.S. Constitution -- Federalism -- The Legislative Branch -- The Executive Branch -- Historic Presidents -- The Judicial Branch -- The Term -- Processes -- Personnel -- Law Clerks -- Reforms -- Historic Justices -- The Bill of Rights -- The First Amendment -- The Second Amendment -- The Third Amendment -- The Fifth Amendment -- The Sixth Amendment -- The Seventh Amendment -- The Eighth Amendment -- The Ninth Amendment -- The Tenth Amendment -- State and Local Governments -- The Civil Rights Movement -- Beginnings -- Alabama -- Mississippi -- Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities -- Serving on a Jury -- Voting -- Education -- Security from Removal -- How to Obtain Citizenship -- Asylum -- Deportation -- Further Reading -- Index.

Introduction to the Constitution -- From the Articles of Confederation to the Constitutional Convention -- The Philadelphia Convention and the New Constitution -- Ratifying the Constitution and the Bill of Rights Issue -- Article I-Congress -- Article II-The powers of the presidency -- Article III and the U.S. Supreme Court -- Articles IV-VIII -- The First Amendment -- The Second Amendment -- The Fourth Amendment -- The Fifth Amendment -- The Sixth Amendment -- The Eighth Amendment -- The Ninth and Tenth Amendments -- The Fourteenth Amendment : The Second Bill of Rights -- Miscellaneous Amendments -- Continuing constitutional controversies.

Senator Howard's speech introducing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress (May 23, 1866) -- Strauder v. West Virginia (March 1, 1880) -- The civil rights cases (October 15, 1883) -- Yick Wo v. Hopkins (May 10, 1886) -- Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896) -- Justice Harlan's "Great Dissent" in Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896) -- Korematsu v. United States (December 18, 1944) -- Shelley v. Kraemer (May 3, 1948) -- Sweatt v. Painter (June 5, 1950) -- Hernandez v. Texas (May 3, 1954) -- Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954) -- President Johnson's commencement address at Howard University (June 4, 1965) -- Loving v. Virginia (June 12, 1967) -- Graham v. Richardson (June 14, 1971) -- Reed v. Reed (November 22, 1971) -- In re Griffiths (June 25, 1973) -- Washington v. Davis (June 7, 1976) -- Craig v. Boren (December 20, 1976) -- Bakke v. University of California (June 28, 1978) -- Ambach v. Norwick (April 17, 1979) -- Plyler v. Doe (June 15, 1982) -- Batson v. Kentucky (April 30, 1986) -- McCleskey v. Kemp (April 22, 1987) -- Justice Marshall's Bicentennial Speech (May 6, 1987) -- Romer v. Evans (May 20, 1996) -- United States v. Virginia (June 26, 1996) -- Justice Breyer's speech on the 50th anniversary of the Brown Decision (May 17, 2004) -- Johnson v. California (February 23, 2005) -- Justice Ginsburg's speech on gender discrimination (February 10, 2006) -- Obergefell v. Hodges (June 26, 2015) -- President Obama's statement on the Obergefell Decision (June 26, 2015)

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