* This is one of the few single volume Con Law texts on the market and is considered compact and accessible to a wide range of students and schools. * In a high-priced text market, the single volume price is a bargain compared to two-volume texts. * Offers the most thorough introductory essays of any text to each of it 15 substantive chapters. * Includes carefully selected and edited cases, keeping the length in check. * Provides a nice complement of end of chapter materials including Key Terms, Selected Readings, and-uniquely-Queries (Discussion Questions) for which the text is noted. * Supplemented by an author-written e-Resource that includes an Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, historical Court documents, noteworthy decisions and dissents, and cases from previous editions. The eighteenth edition of this revered text has been fully revised and updated to include: Discussion of the constitutional implications of the Trump impeachments and recent Supreme Court transitions including the fraught Kavanaugh hearings, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and the nomination process surrounding Amy Coney Barrett. Expands the book's longstanding account of all Supreme Court appointments since 1968. Highlights recent attacks on the Supreme Court, including comments by Trump both before and after the 2020 election. Reprints a brief excerpt from oral argument at the Supreme Court. Fourteen new cases carefully edited and excerpted, including Chifalo v. Washington (2020) on the Electoral College, Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018) on the conflict between gay rights and religion, three other new cases on religious freedom, plus three Trump cases as well. Thirty-one additional new cases discussed in chapter essays. Looks at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the context of "Security and Freedom in Wartime and Other Crises." Spotlights the US Constitution up front in the text with a prelude hearkening to the Constitutional Convention. Retains a summary of helpful hints on reading and understanding a decision by the Supreme Court.

* This is one of the few single volume Con Law texts on the market and is considered compact and accessible to a wide range of students and schools. * In a high-priced text market, the single volume price is a bargain compared to two-volume texts. * Offers the most thorough introductory essays of any text to each of it 15 substantive chapters. * Includes carefully selected and edited cases, keeping the length in check. * Provides a nice complement of end of chapter materials including Key Terms, Selected Readings, and-uniquely-Queries (Discussion Questions) for which the text is noted. * Supplemented by an author-written e-Resource that includes an Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, historical Court documents, noteworthy decisions and dissents, and cases from previous editions. The eighteenth edition of this revered text has been fully revised and updated to include: Discussion of the constitutional implications of the Trump impeachments and recent Supreme Court transitions including the fraught Kavanaugh hearings, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and the nomination process surrounding Amy Coney Barrett. Expands the book's longstanding account of all Supreme Court appointments since 1968. Highlights recent attacks on the Supreme Court, including comments by Trump both before and after the 2020 election. Reprints a brief excerpt from oral argument at the Supreme Court. Fourteen new cases carefully edited and excerpted, including Chifalo v. Washington (2020) on the Electoral College, Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018) on the conflict between gay rights and religion, three other new cases on religious freedom, plus three Trump cases as well. Thirty-one additional new cases discussed in chapter essays. Looks at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the context of "Security and Freedom in Wartime and Other Crises." Spotlights the US Constitution up front in the text with a prelude hearkening to the Constitutional Convention. Retains a summary of helpful hints on reading and understanding a decision by the Supreme Court.

Over two centuries of American history the Supreme Court has often become a significant issue in presidential elections, with voters acutely aware that the dominance of one party at the polls may translate into that party's dominance on the nation's highest court. Should Americans presume that votes at the ballot box will have an effect on votes at the Supreme Court on what our Constitution means?

Donald Grier Stephenson Jr. explores the periods when the Court has been an issue in elections -- and when it has not----investigating ten elections in which the Court was clearly an issue and looking also at the election of 1992, in which it could have become a major issue but did not. Drawing from four areas of political history -- party evolution, presidential campaigns, as well as judicial and constitutional development -- Stephenson presents a sophisticated inquiry into the relationship of the Supreme Court to the electoral process and considers whether this recurring electoral phenomenon is a beneficial feature of democratic politics -- or one that ought to be met with concern.