Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism

Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, 10th edition, by Christopher N. May, Allan Ides, and Simona Grossi, provides a clearly written, comprehensive examination of constitutional doctrine pertaining to national power and federalism. This problem-oriented study guide provides students and teachers with a highly readable and accessible study of constitutional law. Both this book and its companion volume, Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, combine detailed textual material with real-world examples and explanations that apply the relevant constitutional doctrine to specific fact patterns. The text operates as a readable and citable treatise on the topics covered, and the examples and explanations serve as an elaboration on that text. Its unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations pedagogy combines textual material with well-written, comprehensive and up-to-date examples, explanations and questions. A favorite among law school students, and often recommended by professors, this guide takes students through the principal doctrines of constitutional law covered in a typical course that covers the powers of the federal government and its constitutional relationship to the states.

New to the Tenth Edition:
Inclusion of more than 50 new Supreme Court cases, and over 15 new state and lower federal court decisions

• Nearly 200 Examples & Explanations, many of them new and updated
• Examination of the role of stare decisis, as exemplified in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. (2022), in overruling decisions like Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Discussion of the evolving “major questions doctrine” as a limitation on Congress’s power to delegate authority to federal agencies, as applied in West Virginia v. EPA (2022) and Biden v. Nebraska (2023)
• Expanded consideration of a President’s constitutional immunity from criminal prosecution, as delineated in Trump v. United States (2024)
• Exploration of the role that a state law’s extraterritorial effects may play, and when a balancing of its burdens and benefits is appropriate. under the dormant Commerce Clause, as set forth in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (2023)

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with structure and reasoning behind the corresponding analysis
• An alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures
• Straightforward, informal text that is never simplistic, and quickly gets to the point in conversational style laced with humor
• Adaptability with all major Constitutional Law casebooks
• Authors with over 75 years of combined experience teaching Constitutional Law

Summary of Contents

Contents 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Chapter 1 Judicial Review 
Chapter 2 Congressional Power to Limit the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and Inferior Federal Courts
Chapter 3 Justiciability
Chapter 4 Special Limitations on Judicial Review of State Laws
Chapter 5 The Powers of the National Government 
Chapter 6 The Supremacy Clause 
Chapter 7 The Separation of Powers 
Chapter 8 The Dormant Commerce Clause 
Chapter 9 The Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV 

Table of Cases 
Index