Constitutional Law Resources - Cheshire Katz

• 1 US Supreme Court Authority
  • 1.1 Constitutional Judicial Powers
  • 1.2 Judicial Review Powers
  • 1.3 Nonjusticiability Limitations
    • 1.3.1 Political Questions
    • 1.3.2 Case or Controversy
      • 1.3.2.1 Advisory Opinions
      • 1.3.2.2 Standing
      • 1.3.2.3 Mootness
      • 1.3.2.4 Ripeness
    • 1.3.3 Congressional Control of Court Jurisdiction
  • 1.4 Sovereign Immunity Limitations
    • 1.4.1 Presidential Immunity (Executive Privilege)
    • 1.4.2 State Immunity (11th Amendment)
• 2 Presidential Authority
  • 2.1 Constitutional Executive Powers
    • 2.1.1 Article 2 Powers
  • 2.2 From Congress
    • 2.2.1 Authorized Use of Military Force
  • 2.3 From U.S. Supreme Court
    • 2.3.1 Executive power cases
    • 2.3.2 Executive Discretion during War Time
• 3 Congressional Authority
  • 3.1 From U.S. Constitution
    • 3.1.1 Article 1 § 8 Powers
    • 3.1.2 Article 1 § 9 Limitations
    • 3.1.3 Bill of Rights Limitations
    • 3.1.4 14th Amendment § 5 Powers
  • 3.2 Commerce Clause Powers
    • 3.2.1 CC History
    • 3.2.2 CC Current
  • 3.3 Abrogation of State Immunity Powers
    • 3.3.1 Free Exercise
  • 3.4 Legislative Encroachment on Executive Power
  • 3.5 Congressional Control Over Executive Officers
  • 3.6 State Autonomy Limitations
    • 3.6.1 SA History
    • 3.6.2 SA Current
    • 3.6.3 Spending Power Exception
• 4 State Legislative Powers
  • 4.1 From U.S. Constitution
  • 4.2 Dormant Commerce Clause Limitations
    • 4.2.1 DCC History
    • 4.2.2 DCC Current
  • 4.3 Sovereign Immunity
    • 4.3.1 U.S. Constitution, Article III §2
  • 4.4 Equal Protection Clause
    • 4.4.1 Brown v. Board of Ed.
    • 4.4.2 Underinclusive & Overinclusive
    • 4.4.3 Race Discrimination
      • 4.4.3.1 Case Table
      • 4.4.3.2 Facially Discriminatory
      • 4.4.3.3 Disproportionate effect
      • 4.4.3.4 Non-invidious
      • 4.4.3.5 RBD Current
    • 4.4.4 Gender Discrimination
      • 4.4.4.1 Impermissible
      • 4.4.4.2 Permissible
    • 4.4.5 Other Suspect & Quasi-Suspect Classes
      • 4.4.5.1 Alienage
      • 4.4.5.2 Disability
      • 4.4.5.3 Homosexuality
      • 4.4.5.4 Non-suspect Groups
        • 4.4.5.4.1 Right to Vote
        • 4.4.5.4.2 Access to Courts
        • 4.4.5.4.3 Not Right to Education
  • 4.5 Bill of Rights Incorporation
  • 4.6 Substantive Due Process
    • 4.6.1 SDP History & Lochner
    • 4.6.2 Early Surviving SDP Rights
    • 4.6.3 Privacy
      • 4.6.3.1 Contraception
      • 4.6.3.2 Abortion
      • 4.6.3.3 Consensual sexual intimacy
      • 4.6.3.4 Right to Die
  • 4.7 First Amendment
    • 4.7.1 Subversive Speech
      • 4.7.1.1 Legislative History of Subversive Speech
      • 4.7.1.2 Early Convictions Under Sedition Act
      • 4.7.1.3 Dissenting Views on Sedition Act
      • 4.7.1.4 Modern Deferential Views on Sedition
    • 4.7.2 Restrictions
      • 4.7.2.1 Fighting Words
      • 4.7.2.2 Lewd & Indecent Speech
      • 4.7.2.3 Ancillary Free Speech
      • 4.7.2.4 Hostile Audiences
      • 4.7.2.5 Permits
      • 4.7.2.6 Libel
      • 4.7.2.7 Hate speech
      • 4.7.2.8 Lewdness
    • 4.7.3 Methods of restriction
      • 4.7.3.1 Overbreadth
      • 4.7.3.2 Vagueness
      • 4.7.3.3 Prior Restraint
    • 4.7.4 Content-Neutral Laws
    • 4.7.5 Symbolic Conduct
• 5 References