Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-6885-2 • Hardback • July 2020 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-1-4985-6887-6 • Paperback • December 2021 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-6886-9 • eBook • July 2020 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Steven T. Seitz is associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois.
Chapter 1: The Two Constitutions
Chapter 2: Dred Scott
Chapter 3: Privileges and Immunities
Chapter 4: Due Process
Chapter 5: Criminal Process
Chapter 6: Equal Protection for Women
Chapter 7: Asserting Federal Power
Chapter 8: Contracts
Chapter 9: Free Speech and Corporations
Chapter 10: Sex
Chapter 11: Guns
Steven Seitz has written a fascinating history of the Supreme Court by looking at how particular areas of law – such as privileges and immunities, due process, criminal procedure, sex discrimination, free speech, and guns – have changed over time. The book is clearly written and accessible so that both experts and those with little familiarity of constitutional law can benefit from reading it. By focusing on the decisions, and not what commentators say about them, Seitz offers an excellent picture of how constitutional law has evolved over the course of American history.
— Erwin Chemerinsky