v. 1. From the founding to 1900. -- From the old world to the new -- Law in colonial America -- The road to independence -- The Revolutionary era -- The crisis of Confederation -- A more perfect Union -- Launching the great experiment -- The Supreme Court : the first decade -- The changing face of the law -- Adams, Jefferson, and the courts -- The Marshall Court and national power -- The Marshall Court and economic development -- A law made for the times -- Politics, nationalism, and competition -- Jacksonian democracy -- The Taney Court : change and continuity -- The peculiar laws of America's peculiar institution -- A house dividing -- The Union sundered -- The Union unrestored -- Reconstruction -- The Court and civil rights -- The constitutional world of the late nineteenth century -- v. 2. From 1898 to the present. -- A new era -- Protective legislation and the police power -- Progressivism triumphant, 1901-1917 -- Constitutional problems during World War I -- "The business of America is business" -- A tangled skein of liberties -- The Depression, the New Deal, and the Court -- Crisis and resolution -- Civil liberties and the Roosevelt Court -- World War II -- Fair deal and Cold War -- The struggle for civil rights -- "We shall overcome!" -- The Warren Court and the Bill of Rights -- A nation in turmoil -- Richard Nixon and the corruption of power -- The Burger Court and equal protection -- The Burger Court and civil liberties -- The Rehnquist Court : equal protection and individual autonomy -- The Rehnquist Court, federalism, and civil liberties -- The War on Terror -- The Roberts Court.
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