Here is why so many of your colleagues rely on American Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties:
- brief but comprehensive coverage
- strong and effective teaching book
- minimal reliance on secondary materials
- carefully-crafted hypotheticals
- abundant author-written text
- flexibility and sensible organization
This Second Edition responds to both classroom experience and developments in the law:
- important new cases include Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (affirmative action), Virginia v. Black (hate speech and true threats), Tahoe-Sierra (conceptual severance in regulatory takings), Legal Services Corp v. Velasquez (government-sponsored speech), McConnell v. FEC (campaign finance speech restrictions), Republican Party v. White (restrictions on candidate speech), Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (school vouchers redeemable at religious schools), Locke v. Davey (marking the line between establishment and free exercise), Garrett and Hibbs (scope of the 14th Amendment's enforcement power), and Lawrence v. Texas
- updated or expanded hypotheticals and problems
- modest reorganization of some sections
- completely rewritten Teacher's Manual