CASES TO DOWNLOAD
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|Class 1: Introductions
I. What my vision for these classes is
(Don't shoot the messenger)
II. Sources of information:
1. History of the Origin, Formation, And Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Volumes 1 & 2. by George Ticknor Curtis (1854), ISBN 9781318039418, 9781318042043
2. The Debate on the Constitution, Parts 1 & 2, published by The Library of America, ISBN 0-940450-42-9, 978-0-940450-64-6.
3. The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ISBN 0-7607-0225-X
4. How to Read the Federalist, by Holmes Alexander (1961)
5. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution, by Joseph Story (1833)
6. American Constitutional Law, by Calvin Massey, ISBN 0-7355-5098-0
7. Constitutional Law5th Edition, by Erwin Chemerinksy, ISBN 978-1-4548-4947-6
8. Federal Law and the Law of Federal-State Relations by Peter W. Low & John C. Jeffries, Jr., ISBN 1-58778-574-9
9. The Dirty Dozen (How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom), by Robert A. Levy & William Mellor, ISBN 978-1-935308-27-0.
10. Restoring the Lost Constitution, by Randy Barnett, ISBN 978-0-691-15973-7
11. How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution, by Richard A. Epstein, ISBN 978-1-933995-06-9
12. The Founding Fathers, by K.M. Kostyal, ISBN 978-1-4262-1680-0
13. Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, by B. J. Lossing (1854), ISBN 978-1-4290-1955-2
14. Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow, ISBN 978-0-14-303475-9
15. Any book by Mark Levin
III. Why does "a" constitution matter?
IV. A little history on the Supreme Court
V. The authority of the Supreme Court
(Marbury v. Madison; Cooper v. Aaron)
VI. Branches of government & Separation of Powers
(New York v. Unites States; Printz v. United States; )
VII. How to legally analyze whether a law is "Constitutional" or not
|Marbury v. Madison
Cooper v. Aaron
New York v. United States
Printz v. United States
Alden v. Maine
Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Ruidoso
Date: January, 2017
CLASSES ON THE CONSTITUTION
I am going to be giving free seminars on the Constitution in Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Ruidoso. The purpose of the seminars is to help citizens be better citizens, and to understand what the Constitution was supposed to say, how past and present courts have interpreted it, and what went wrong.
Our first seminar will be in January, 2017, in Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Ruidoso.