17.245 Constitutional Law: Structures of Power and Individual Rights, Spring 2013

This course examines American constitutional law in historical and modern context. It focuses closely on the constitutional text and Supreme Court case law. It explores the allocation of decision-making authority among government institutions, including the distribution of power across the branches...

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Main Author: Warshaw, Christopher
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spelling mit-1721.1/1483682025-02-21T18:52:24Z 17.245 Constitutional Law: Structures of Power and Individual Rights, Spring 2013 Constitutional Law: Structures of Power and Individual Rights Warshaw, Christopher Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science federal and state government Supreme Court constitutional law judicial review judicial interpretation nation-state relations commerce clause Congress taxing and spending power due process economic liberty right to privacy personal liberty abortion racial discrimination affirmative action gender discrimination economic discrimination sexual orientation same-sex marriage voting 220203 This course examines American constitutional law in historical and modern context. It focuses closely on the constitutional text and Supreme Court case law. It explores the allocation of decision-making authority among government institutions, including the distribution of power across the branches of the federal government and between the federal and state governments. The course also examines the guarantees of individual rights and liberties stemming from the due process, equal protection, and other clauses in the Bill of Rights and post Civil War amendments.AcknowledgmentsProfessor Warshaw would like to acknowledge the training in Constitutional Law he received from Gary J. Jacobsohn, Kathleen Sullivan, and Norman Spaulding.   2023-03-06T17:42:49Z 2023-03-06T17:42:49Z 2013-06 2023-03-06T17:42:56Z Learning Object 17.245-Spring2013 17.245 IMSCP-MD5-564e32b4d859768630901edaa6169793 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148368 en-US http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84611 This site (c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023. Content within individual courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. 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nation-state relations
commerce clause
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taxing and spending power
due process
economic liberty
right to privacy
personal liberty
abortion
racial discrimination
affirmative action
gender discrimination
economic discrimination
sexual orientation
same-sex marriage
voting
220203
Warshaw, Christopher
17.245 Constitutional Law: Structures of Power and Individual Rights, Spring 2013
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topic federal and state government
Supreme Court
constitutional law
judicial review
judicial interpretation
nation-state relations
commerce clause
Congress
taxing and spending power
due process
economic liberty
right to privacy
personal liberty
abortion
racial discrimination
affirmative action
gender discrimination
economic discrimination
sexual orientation
same-sex marriage
voting
220203
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