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This book combines a detailed examination of the history of the Supremacy Clause with a comprehensive consideration of all aspects of Supremacy Clause Doctrine. It explores how the Supremacy Clause makes federal law the supreme Law of the Land, so that federal law overrides conflicting state law. This work also looks at how the Supreme Court frequently requires not supremacy but equality when applying the Supremacy Clause by invalidating state laws that discriminate against the federal government.||This volume gives a detailed history of the Supremacy Clause by tracing the origins of federal s

The background and purposes of the Constitution -- Article I : The Legislative Branch -- Article II : The Executive Branch -- Article III : The Judicial Branch -- Article IV : The Federal System -- Articles V-VII : The Amending Provision and Miscellaneous Matters -- The Bill of Rights - The First Amendment -- The Bill of Rights : Of Arms and Men - Amendments 2-3 -- The Bill of Rights and the Rights of the Accused and the Convicted - Amendments 4-8 -- The Bill of Rights, the Rights of the States (Amendments 9 - 10), and Amendments 11 and 12 -- The Post-civil War Amendments-Amendments 13-15 -- The Progressive Era Amendments - Amendments 16 - 19 -- The Recent Amendments - Amendments 20-27.

Constitutional critiques : the re-emergence of Jeffersonian constitutional angst -- The preamble, then and now : a more perfect union -- Governing institutions -- Amendments and interpretation

Philadelphia Heats Up -- A Special Document -- A Plan That Didn't Work -- Meeting For a Change -- The Framers -- Branches and Chambers -- Debating Slavery -- The Father of the Constitution -- The Plan is Approved! -- Washington Leads a New Government -- The Bill of Rights -- The Constitution Today.