A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States - Vol. 1

Table of contents

• A March of Liberty i
• Title Page iii
• For Susan and Byrgen—yet Again v
• Contents vii
• Preface xiii
• A March of Liberty xv
• 1: From the Old World to the New 1
• 2: Law in Colonial America 17
• 3: The Road to Independence 39
• 4: The Revolutionary Era 61
• 5: The Crisis of Confederation 80
• 6: A More Perfect Union 93
• 7: Launching the Great Experiment 120
• 8: The Supreme Court: the First Decade 147
• 9: The Changing Face of the Law 165
• 10: Adams, Jefferson, and the Courts 181
• 11: The Marshall Court and National Power 207
• 12: The Marshall Court and Economic Development 229
• 13: A Law Made for the Times 248
• 14: Politics, Nationalism, and Competition 271
• 15: Jacksonian Democracy 296
• 16: The Taney Court: Change and Continuity 320
• 17: The Peculiar Laws of America's Peculiar Institution 337
• 18: A House Dividing 366
• 19: The Union Sundered 401
• 20: The Union Unrestored 429
• 21: Reconstruction 451
• 22: The Court and Civil Rights 479
• Appendixes - The Declaration of Independence 501
• Articles of Confederation 505
• Constitution of the United States 511
• Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court 528
• Case Index 537
• Subject Index 542

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