History 375 - US Constitutional History II

The history of American constitutional law from the Reconstruction to the present. Not a casebook course. Major legal constitutional developments, especially the 14th Amendmentoits evolving character and its application. In the 20th century, civil liberties issues and cases; litigation involving nation-state relations, the commerce clause, apportionment, criminal justice cases, etc. Survey course in post-Civil War America to the present helpful.