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The Question of Implied Powers, Part VI: McCulloch v. Maryland, the Second Question
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The Question of Implied Powers, Part V: McCulloch v. Maryland, the First Question
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The Question of Implied Powers, Part IV: Enter John Marshall
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The Question of Implied Powers, Part III: Cabinet Battle #1 (Hamilton's Response)
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The Question of Implied Powers, Part II: Cabinet Battle #1 (Jefferson's Attack)
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The Question of Implied Powers, Part I: The First Question of Constitutional Law
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Constitutional Prehistory: The British Imperial Constitution
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Welcome to Level Two!
Hello and welcome to Level Two of Constitutional Perspectives! As I said in the introduction to the entire series, the concept for Constitutional Perspectives is a series of levels, each covering the same territory (roughly, the whole of constitutional law) but in increasing depth. Level One, which was meant to
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Coda: The Life and Times of the Second Republic
Welcome back to Constitutional Perspectives! Today it is time for the final chapter of Level One. Over the last several installments, I covered the story of slavery and the Constitution. Slavery defined what I call the First Republic, from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 through the Civil War
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Civil Rights Since the Civil War
Welcome back to Constitutional Perspectives! Last time, I talked all about how the Civil War transformed the Constitution, and how the Reconstruction Amendments reflected and formalized that transformation. But I left off on an ominous note: This was seen by many at the time as completing the work. Slavery had
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The Civil War and the Second Founding
Welcome back to Constitutional Perspectives! For the last few lessons, I've been telling the story of slavery and the American Constitution. Last time, our story finally reached the outset of the Civil War in 1861. Today, then, I'll be talking about how the war, and its