The Changing Constitution

Richard H. Fallon, Jr., is the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and an Affiliate Professor in the Harvard Government Department. A former Rhodes Scholar and Supreme Court law clerk, he is a prize-winning teacher and the author of numerous books and articles about constitutional law.

• Introduction; 1. The written constitution and the emergence of judicial supremacy; 2. Historical overview of constitutional adjudication by the Supreme Court; 3. The Supreme Court today; 4. Freedom of religion: the crumbling 'wall of separation' between church and state; 5. The freedom of speech: the ascent of 'the persuasion principle'; 6. The expanding and contested 'right to keep and bear arms'; 7. The equal protection of the laws: what it once meant and now means; 8. Substantive due process and unenumerated fundamental rights after the overruling of Roe v. Wade; 9. The shrinking yet still formidable powers of congress; 10. The powers of the president and the executive branch in a period of ferment; 11. Law and change in the Supreme Court.

'On American constitutional law, Richard Fallon is the best in the business. This is a masterful guide not only to the current situation, but also to the arc of constitutional history. Essential reading.' Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, and author of How to Interpret the Constitution