Jumpstart Constitutional Law: Reading and Understanding Constitutional Law Cases

Jumpstart Constitutional Law: Reading and Understanding Constitutional Law Cases, sheds light on the threshold issues and substantive questions common to all constitutional law cases thus bringing everything into focus for the student. Key to constructing cogent answers on a Constitutional Law exam, Jethro K. Lieberman s straightforward approach teaches students how to spot the issues and respond to the relevant questions in any constitutional law case.

Features:

• Perspective A tour of the American Constitution from a bird s-eye view.
  • Understanding threshold issues:
    • Who may decide constitutional disputes?
    • Under what circumstances may a court decide a case? Must the court take and answer a constitutional question in a property case?

• Identifying substantive issues:
  • determining the scope of govenmental powers;
  • federalism, and the relationship between federal and state powers; and,
  • constitutional restraints that limit the exercise of governmental power.

• Interpreting the Constitution:
  • using tests to determin the limits of power and the extent of rights;
  • tools of analysis for interpreting the Constitution; and
  • the role of precedent and change.

• Training real preparation for taking the Constitutional Law exam:
  • a program for effective studying;
  • sample constitutional law exam questions and answers; and
  • exam-taking strategies.