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by Adam Winkler


  racial identity of, 259–62, 274–78

  reform movement for, xxiii, 51, 95, 107, 234, 280–81, 282, 283, 285–86, 287, 289–300, 301, 302, 304, 305, 308, 318, 321, 322, 329, 352, 365, 402

  state regulation of, 72–73, 77–79, 103–8, 131–32, 140, 145–48, 209–10, 238, 244–55, 264, 265–67, 272, 275–76, 305–23, 324

  stockholders of, 4–7, 13–15, 21–22, 26, 35, 38–39, 51, 53–54, 55, 56, 67, 78, 92, 100, 101–2, 108, 130, 145, 155, 160, 168–69, 205–9, 217, 224, 245–48, 316, 329, 335–37, 353, 364, 366, 384–88, 399, 402

  subsidiaries of, 391–94

  taxation of, xv, 118–19, 130–31, 133, 142–43, 144, 148, 158, 234–37, 242–55, 265–66, 293, 305–23, 321, 339, 360, 365, 377, 392

  transparency of, 54–56, 57, 59–60, 62, 66, 67–68, 74, 75, 383–84

  trustees of, 77–79, 84, 89, 168

  in trusts, 157, 161–62, 169, 171, 177, 179, 185, 189, 196–97, 197, 202–3, 218, 282, 298, 320, 382; see also monopolies

  voting rights in, 92, 336–37, 384–85

  see also specific corporations

  “Corporation’s Lawyer,” 121, 278, 305

  Corvair, 285

  cotton oil trust, 168

  counsel, right of, xvi, 24, 164, 359, 369, 400

  covenants, housing, 260–62

  Craig v. Boren, 314

  credit, 38–39, 69, 93, 130, 261

  crime rate, 176–77

  criminal trespass, 268–72

  Cromwell, Oliver, 25

  Cronkite, Walter, 279, 282–83

  cruel and unusual punishment, 23, 164

  Crusades, 168

  Culberson, Charles A., 202

  Cullman, Joe, 279–83, 287–89, 288, 321

  customer liability, 387

  customs, 26–27, 30, 178

  Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 200

  DaimlerChrysler Corp., 347

  dairy industry, 300

  Daniel, Peter, 109–10

  “dark money” groups, 372–73

  Darrow, Clarence, 161

  Dartmouth (ship), 29–30

  Dartmouth, Earl of, 76

  Dartmouth College, xxi, 4, 75–80, 80, 81, 90, 91, 95, 96, 222

  Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 66, 75–80, 80, 81, 87, 90, 91, 95, 96, 184, 221–22, 245, 270, 305, 374, 393, 400

  Davis, J. C. Bancroft, 116, 117, 149–53, 160, 401

  Davis, Joseph Stancliffe, 3–4, 43

  death penalty, 314

  Debs, Eugene, 238

  debts, 88

  decentralization agenda, 214

  Declaration of Independence, US, 5, 28, 360

  deed restriction, 260–62

  Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010), 248

  defendants, criminal, 282, 283

  “Defender of the Constitution,” 71

  Delaware, 9, 124, 170, 382–83, 388

  Delaware Court of Chancery, 382–83

  Delaware Supreme Court, 382–83

  DeMille, Cecil B., 330–32, 331

  Democratic Party, xvi, 124, 158, 198–202, 208–9, 217–18, 227, 251, 257, 309, 321–22, 326–27, 330, 344, 347, 371–74

  Democratic-Republican Party, 40

  Depew, Chauncey, 204–5

  deposits, bank, 88, 93

  depressions, economic, 100, 198, 235, 256, 344

  deregulation ideology, 281, 298, 321–22, 352–53

  Detroit, Mich., 246

  Deutsch, Eberhard P., 242, 248, 249

  Deveaux, Peter, 41, 42, 54, 56, 59, 67

  Dewey, John, 179

  Dexter, Wirt, 139

  Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 257

  Dictionary Act, 380–81

  Digital Equipment Corp., 307

  direct democracy, 320

  Direct Legislation by the Citizenship (Sullivan), 320–21

  disability rights, 64

  Discovery, 9

  dissent, political, 232–33, 238, 242, 250, 253, 256, 259, 264–65, 269, 272, 278, 297–98, 341

  diversity jurisdiction, 43, 61, 67

  dividends, 7, 38–39, 206, 245–46

  Dixiecrat Revolt (1948), 158

  Dodd, Samuel, 167–68, 169

  Dodge, James and Horace, 245–48, 246, 388, 402

  Dodge Brothers v. Ford Motor Company, 245–48, 402

  “dollar drives,” 332

  double jeopardy, xvi, 23, 359

  Douglas, William O., 228, 296

  Dow Chemical, 302, 372

  Dred Scott v. Sandford, xix, 35, 42, 74, 108–9, 110, 130, 150

  drinking water, 126–27

  drought, 9–10

  Drucker, Peter, 270

  Dryden, John, 210

  Duane, William, 93

  DuBois, W. E. B., 257

  Dukakis, Michael, 327

  Duke, James “Buck,” 167, 169, 170, 173, 189, 321

  Dunne, Finley Peter, 208

  duties, import, 26–27

  E. Allgeyer & Company v. Louisiana, 181–82, 183

  Earle, Joseph B., 99–103

  East India Company, 1, 5, 25–31, 43, 359–60, 382, 400

  East River, 292

  Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, An (Beard), 134

  Edison, Thomas, 122

  Editor & Publisher, 249

  Edmonds, George, 120

  Edmund Pettus Bridge, 257

  education, xxiv, xxvi, 63–64, 86, 118, 135, 151, 221–22, 231, 234, 237, 259, 260, 263, 264, 272, 277–78, 281, 284, 286, 300, 340–41, 367

  educational corporations, xxin, 45, 66, 75–80, 80, 81, 90, 91, 95, 96, 184, 221–22, 245, 270, 305, 374, 393, 399, 400-401

  Eighth Amendment, 164

  eight-hour work week, 320

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 314

  election campaigns, xvi, 22–23, 197–98, 243, 304, 308–10, 321–22, 332, 359, 367, 373–74, 401

  “electioneering communications,” 328–29, 336, 353–55, 403

  elections, US:

  of 1800, 40

  of 1828, 90–91

  of 1836, 94

  of 1876, 128, 148

  of 1896, 172, 198–202, 209

  of 1900, 172, 198, 209

  of 1904, 202, 204–5, 209

  of 1908, 219

  of 1912, 227, 228

  of 1914, 224

  of 1916, 227–28

  of 1928, 234

  of 1936, 330, 331

  of 1940, 228

  of 1944, 228

  of 1946, 308–9

  of 1948, 158

  of 1968, 277

  of 1972, 333–34

  of 1980, 281

  of 1988, 327

  of 2000, 324, 326, 338–40

  of 2008, 327–28

  of 2012, 372

  of 2016, 327, 373–74

  Electoral College, US, 109, 338–40

  electoral reforms, 197–98

  eleemosynary institutions, 76, 246

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 8, 11

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 255

  Ellsworth, Oliver, 5

  Elson, Charles, 383

  embezzlement, 165, 173

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 133

  eminent domain, 123

  emperors, 45

  employment rate, 118, 344

  Enron Corp., 248

  entertainment industry, 118, 330–32

  entrepreneurship, 92, 213, 292–93

  environmental issues, xxii, 45, 49, 280, 304, 322, 347, 389–94

  Epstein, Lee, 350

  equal time provisions, 309–10

  Equitable Life Insurance Co., 194–95

  Erie Canal, 104

  Espionage Act (1917), 238

  Evangelical Christianity, 379

  evidence, 172–73

  executive compensation, 17–18, 206–7, 208

  extortion, 90

  Face the Nation (TV show), 288

  Fahrenheit 9/11 (documentary), 328

  farmers, 40, 198

  Faubus, Oral, 272

  federal bank not
es, 90

  federal banks, 38, 90, 93

  federal courts, 41–42, 53, 59, 64, 67, 90, 103, 104–6, 107, 109, 110, 119–20, 137, 142, 149–50, 180, 222, 225, 256, 272, 277–78, 343, 392–94, 402

  Federal Election Campaign Acts (1971, 1974), 219, 333–34

  Federal Election Commission (FEC), 325, 329, 334, 337–38, 341, 342, 344, 351, 354, 368

  Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, 337–38, 341, 347, 351

  Federalist No. 78, 63

  Federalist Papers, 3, 63

  Federalists, 3, 42, 71, 93, 218

  Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 298

  fees, legal, 122, 290, 346

  felony, 51, 164

  Field, Cyrus, 139

  Field, David, 139

  Field, George, 51

  Field, Henry, 139

  Field, Stephen J., xix, 116, 117, 136–39, 140, 141, 144–49, 151, 152, 153–59, 160, 181, 187, 222, 266, 392, 401

  Fifteenth Amendment, 159

  Fifth Amendment, 162, 171, 172, 174, 175, 176–80, 185, 187–88, 189, 391, 401

  Fighting Monster, 292–93

  Filene, Edward, 211

  financial bubbles, 14, 43

  financial crisis (2008), 25, 26, 344, 359–60

  fines, 259

  First Amendment, xix, xxiii–xxiv, 224–26, 234, 239, 248–55, 256, 282, 292–300, 305, 313–23, 325, 326, 333, 336, 354–57, 358, 360, 363–64, 367–68, 379–80, 391, 393, 402, 403

  see also speech, freedom of

  First National Bank of Boston, 305–23, 306

  First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 310–23, 313, 324, 329, 335, 336, 337, 359, 365, 393, 402–3

  501(c)(3) and (4) organizations, 367–68, 372

  “527 committees,” 372

  fixed assets, 12

  flat income tax, 305

  Flintstones, The (TV show), 303–4

  Florida, 214, 338–40

  Florida Supreme Court, 338–40

  Flowers, B. O., 209–10

  Flying B (trucking company), 275–76

  Food and Drug Act (1907), 177

  food safety, 177, 280, 320–21

  Ford, Gerald R., 336

  Ford, Henry, 245–48, 246, 388

  Ford Motor Co., xxi, 245–48

  foreign nationals, 368

  Fort Sumter, 125

  Fortune, 122, 170, 285, 304, 308, 382

  Fortune 500, 170, 304, 382

  Foster, Vince, 327

  Founding Fathers, 3–5, 19, 31, 36, 38, 134, 164, 250, 267

  “Four Horsemen of Reaction,” 251, 252

  401(k) fund, 385

  Fourteenth Amendment, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xxiv, 113–15, 116, 117, 119, 120–36, 131, 141, 143–46, 149, 151–60, 180, 181, 183, 184, 240, 243, 244, 254, 266–67, 271, 339–40, 369, 388, 392, 400–401

  Fourth Amendment, xxiv, 162, 164, 171, 175, 176–80, 185, 187, 188, 189–90, 401

  Fox, Francis H., 310

  fracking, 389–94

  franchises, 22

  “Frankenstein monster,” 214

  Frankfurter, Felix, 308–9

  Franklin, Benjamin, 5

  fraud, 55, 67–68, 115, 243, 248

  freedmen, xiii, xiv, 35, 74, 108–10, 113, 114–15, 121, 128, 132–33, 144

  Freedom Riders, 257–58

  free enterprise, xix, 87, 88, 140, 163, 170–71, 251, 252–55, 281, 286, 288, 300, 301, 302, 316, 321, 352–53, 360–61, 383–84

  Free Speech for People, 375

  freight railroads, 142

  Frick, Henry C., 202

  Friedman, Milton, 247–48

  Fuller, Melville, 139, 155, 182

  Fundamental Orders (1639), 24

  Furman v. Georgia, 314

  gambling, 165, 166, 176, 299

  Gansley, Jacob, 224

  Garfield, James, 129

  gas industry, 389–94

  gay and lesbian rights, xvii, xxiv, 64, 182, 296, 347, 356, 362, 381

  General Assembly (Jamestown), 16, 18–19, 18

  General Electric (GE), 302, 304, 347, 386

  “general incorporation,” 92, 104

  General Motors (GM), xxi, 53, 270, 285–86

  genetically modified organisms, 320–21

  Georgia, 36–42, 53, 54, 59, 62, 67, 69, 125, 314

  Georgia, University of, 41, 125

  Gerry, Elbridge, 5

  Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (Gibson Dunn), 325, 344, 346, 348, 370

  Gilbert, Cass, 57, 246, 323

  Gilded Age, 118, 122, 140–41, 177, 179, 196–97, 223, 339, 355

  Gillen, Vincent, 285–86

  Gillette, 307

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, xxii, 73, 346, 358, 360, 363, 363, 366n, 381

  Gitlow, Benjamin, 240–41, 242

  Gitlow v. New York, 204–41, 242, 244, 254

  glass manufacturing, 178

  Godspeed, 9

  Golden Spike, 142

  Goodrich, Chauncey Allen, 79–80, 82, 84–85

  Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 333

  Gore, Al, 338–40

  Gould, Jay, 121–22, 181

  “government affairs” lobbyists, 302

  government employees, 367

  government limitations, 267–68, 321, 352–53

  governors, 11–13, 19–20, 21, 25, 31, 76, 77

  Graham, Howard Jay, 120, 135–36, 152

  grain warehouses, 148

  grand juries, 161, 166, 167, 170, 172–73, 175, 191

  Grant, Ulysses S., 121, 146, 147, 197

  grassroots organizations, 281, 303–4, 359–60

  Gray, Horace, 182

  Great Britain, 5, 6–7, 15, 17–18, 22–23, 25 27–28, 29, 30–31, 43, 62, 63, 85–86, 87, 88, 238, 253

  Great Depression, 235, 256, 344

  Greatest Show on Earth, The (film), 330

  Great Merger Movement, 163

  Great Migration, 260–61

  Great Recession (2008), 25, 26, 344, 359–60

  Great Wall Street Scandal (1905), 191–93, 205–6, 208, 210, 211, 213, 215–17, 219, 222, 226–28, 251, 286, 306, 314, 368–69, 385, 401

  Green, David and Barbara, 379, 381, 387

  Greenberg, Hyman, 220–21

  Greenfield, Kent, 247, 248

  Greenland, 45

  Grenville, George, 22–23

  Grosjean, Alice, 243–44

  Grosjean v. American Press Company, 250–55, 264, 269, 319–20, 360, 402

  guilds, 45

  Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., 268–72

  gun control, 189, 318

  Hadley, Arthur Twining, 158

  Hale, Edwin F., 161–66, 170, 173–76, 185–92, 226

  Hale v. Henkel, 185–88, 192, 401

  see also MacAndrews & Forbes Licorice Co.

  Hamilton, Alexander, xxi, xxiii, 3, 35, 36, 38–39, 42, 44, 52, 62, 63, 64, 68, 71, 90

  Hamilton, Walton H., 134–35

  handbills, 292–93

  Handlin, Oscar and Mary, 78

  hanging chads, 338–40

  Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 198–202, 199, 204, 208, 227–28, 320, 401

  Hanna-Barbera Studios, 303–4

  Hanson, Elisha, 249

  Harlan, John Marshall, 151, 182, 273

  Harlan, John Marshall, II, 272–75, 273

  Harlow, Bryce, 304

  Hart, Alfred Bushnell, 134

  Harvard College, 4, 29, 38, 52–53, 399

  Harvard Law Review, 211

  Harvard Law School, 211, 285, 290, 347, 358

  Hasty Pudding Club, 38, 52–53

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 148

  headnotes, 150–53, 157, 177–78

  health care issues, xvi–xvii, 289–300, 304, 310, 318, 322–23, 378–82

  Henkel, William, 175

  Henry, Patrick, 27, 29

  Heritage Foundation, 302

  highways, 99

  Hill, James J., 200–201

  Hill, Richard, 305–10, 306, 311, 316

  Hill, Sarah Althea, 137

  Hillary: The Movie,
327–29, 334, 337–38, 341–42, 342, 351–54, 355, 362, 370

  “hired guns,” 347, 361

  Hispanic Americans, 276

  Hitler, Adolf, 249, 253

  Hobbes, Thomas, 8

  Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., xvi–xvii, 76, 379–82, 383, 384, 387, 395, 403

  Hogan & Hartson, 346

  Hollywood, 330–32

  Holmes, John, 80

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 238–41, 239

  Home Insurance Building, 141

  Hoover, Herbert, 251

  Hope Insurance v. Boardman, 58–59, 61–62, 64

  horse racing, 220–21, 259

  Horton, Willie, 327

  Horwitz, Morton, 145

  Hotel Earlington, 166

  House of Commons, British, 23, 28

  House of Representatives, US, 109, 114, 121, 327

  housing prices, 344

  Houston, Charles Hamilton, 262

  Howard Law School, 262

  Hudson River Palisades, 194

  Hudson’s Bay Company, 19

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 192–96, 193, 203, 204, 204, 206–11, 217, 219, 226–28, 251, 252, 286, 306, 315, 320, 329, 368–69, 385

  human trafficking, 17

  Huntington, Collis P., 119

  Hurricane Katrina, 127

  Hutchinson, Thomas, 29

  Hyde, James Hazen, 194–95

  hysterectomies, 290–91

  identity-based distinctions, 367–68

  identity politics, 277–78

  impeachment, 59, 242

  imprisonment, 51, 179

  income levels, 349

  income tax, 305–23, 359–60, 385

  indentured servants, 9, 21

  Independent, 210

  “independent expenditures,” 309

  India, 26

  Indiana, 347

  individual mandate, 379

  individual rights, xx, 5, 19–21, 24, 28, 31, 47–48, 62, 92, 184, 187–90, 192, 213–14, 231, 252–53, 256, 274–75, 360

  Ingersoll, Charles, 101

  Ingersoll, Jared, 59, 101

  Ingham County, Mich., 224

  In re Neagle, 138

  inspections, government, 189–90

  insurance industry, 131–32, 183

  Internal Revenue Code, US, 367–68

  interracial marriage, 64, 159, 260

  interstate commerce, 97–103, 107, 115, 146, 155, 177, 181, 189

  Interstate Commerce Act (1887), 177

  Iowa, 156, 200, 377–78, 378

  Iowa State Fair, 377–78, 378

  “issue-oriented” speech, 343

  Jackson, Andrew, 89–95, 91, 103, 104, 119, 142, 163, 164, 234, 265, 298, 398

  Jackson, Robert, 298

  J. A. Croson Co., 277–78

  James I, King of England, 6, 7, 8, 15, 18

  James River, 12, 17, 281

  Jamestown, 9–19, 12, 18, 22, 391, 393, 399

  Jamestown Church, 16

  Jay, John, 3

  Jefferson, John, 16

  Jefferson, Thomas, xxiii, 4, 16, 36, 40, 43, 44, 47, 53, 62, 68, 69, 90, 92, 119, 142, 163, 164, 198, 213, 214, 234, 265, 390

 

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