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text of, 171
Second Amendment cases
District of Columbia v. Heller, 169–70, 173–4, 181–93, 196–7, 199–202, 234
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 189–91, 193–203, 238
Seegars v. Ashcroft, 178
United States v. Cruikshank, 191–2
United States v. Emerson, 171–3, 176
Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), 190
Seegars v. Ashcroft, 178
segregation. See civil rights cases
sexual orientation cases
Bowers v. Hardwick, 114–17, 128
Lawrence v. Texas, 115–17, 121, 124–31
Shapiro, Ilya, 209
Siegan, Bernard, 110–14
Economic Liberties and the Constitution, 111
Land Use without Zoning, 111
Sigale, David, 192
Simpson, Steve, 171, 173
Slaughter-House Cases (1873), 13–15, 29–33, 37, 39, 47, 57, 142, 144, 194–8, 200–1, 204
slavery
abolitionism and abolitionists, 11–13, 17–20, 25–6, 58, 60, 202
and Black Codes, 20–3, 25–7, 31, 202–3
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19–20, 24, 60, 70
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 19
Thirteenth Amendment, 20
Smith, Adam, 15–16, 18
Wealth of Nations, The, 15–16
Smith, Paul M., 125–6
Sotomayor, Sonia, 167, 225
Souter, David, 160, 165
Spencer, Herbert: Social Statics, 49–50
stare decisis, 167, 200, 223
Stewart, Nathaniel, 218
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 68, 74, 83
Storey, Moorfield, 57–60, 84
substantive due process, 33, 98–100, 113, 115, 120, 190, 193–4, 196–7, 199–203, 227
Sumner, Charles, 16, 58
Supreme Court. See U.S. Supreme Court
Sutherland, George, 63–4, 73–4
Sutton, Jeffrey, 220
Taalib-Din Abdul Uqdah v. District of Columbia, 145
Taft, William Howard, 73
Takings Clause (Fifth Amendment), 121–2, 150–1, 156, 160, 162–3, 165
Thayer, James Bradley, 52
Thirteenth Amendment, 20
Thomas, Clarence, 105, 122–3, 142–3, 165–6, 202–4, 207, 239
Thomas More Law Center, 219
Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Center, 175
Tileston v. Ullman, 91
Tribe, Laurence, 172
Trump, Donald, 151–2, 154
Tugwell, Rexford, 69
United States v. Butler, 71
United States v. Carolene Products Co., 80–1, 130, 135
Footnote Four, 83, 86, 90, 92–3, 111, 150–1, 166
United States v. Comstock, 222
United States v. Cruikshank, 191–2
United States v. Emerson, 171–3, 176
United States v. Lopez, 212–14, 217, 239
United States v. Morrison, 214, 217, 239
Uqdah, Taalib-Din Abdul, 145
U.S. Constitution, 12–16
Commerce Clause, 67–8, 70, 75–6, 205–18, 224–39
See also individual amendments; Bill of Rights
U.S. Court of Appeals, 28, 57
and “circuit split,” 149
District of Columbia Circuit, 77, 109, 119, 133, 173, 179–80, 184, 189, 220
Eleventh Circuit, 3, 219–20, 227
Fifth Circuit, 171–3, 212, 238
Fourth Circuit, 169, 220
Ninth Circuit, 33, 37–8
and “riding circuit,” 37
Seventh Circuit, 197, 201
Sixth Circuit, 147, 149, 220
Tenth Circuit, 148–9
U.S. Supreme Court. See individual cases and justices
Van Devanter, Willis, 72–3
Verrilli, Donald, 4, 209, 224–32
Vietnam War, 137
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 60
Vinson, Roger, 219, 221
Violence Against Women Act, 214, 239
von Breichenruchardt, Dane, 179
Wagner, Robert, 75
Wagner Act, 74–5
Waite, Morrison, 36
Warley, William, 59. See also Buchanan v. Warley
Warren, Earl, 80, 84, 88–9, 92
Warren Court, 85–6, 108, 117
Washington, Bushrod, 28, 31
Washington Legal Foundation, 106
Waters, Maxine, 166
Weigel, Dave, 221
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 93
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 87–8
Wheeler, Burton K., 72
White, Byron, 92, 114–15
“White Monday” (March 29, 1937), 74
Wickard v. Filburn, 206, 211–12, 214
Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III, 169–70
Will, George, 233
Williams, Walter: The State against Blacks, 143
Williamson v. Lee Optical Inc., 82, 135
Wilson, Woodrow, 54–5, 63, 70
Congressional Government, 70
World War I, 44, 54–5, 127
World War II, 110
Yale Law School, 96, 103–4, 106, 237
About the Author
Damon Root is senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. In 2012 he spearheaded Reason’s multi-platform coverage of the legal challenge to President Obama’s health care law. He has been featured on the Fox Business Channel, Sirius Satellite Radio, the 92nd Street Y’s “Campaign for the American Conversation,” and numerous radio stations around the country.
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