v. 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
v. 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.