Constitutional law stories / edited by Michael C. Dorf.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Putting the people back in "We the people" / Michael C. Dorf -- The story of Marbury v. Madison : making defeat look like victory / Michael W. McConnell -- The story of McCulloch : banking on national power / Daniel A. Farber -- The story of Wickard v. Filburn : agriculture, aggregation, and commerce / Jim Chen -- The story of Bush v. Gore : the paradox of judicial activism / Michael J. Gerhardt -- The story of Dred Scott : originalism's forgotten past / Christopher L. Eisgruber -- The story of Plessy v. Ferguson : the death and resurrection of racial formalism / Cheryl I. Harris -- The story of Korematsu : the Japanese-American cases / Neil Gotanda -- The story of Baker v. Carr / Stephen Ansolabehere and Samuel Issacharoff -- The story of Lochner v. New York : impediment to the growth of the regulatory state / David E. Bernstein -- Contested ground : the story of Roe v. Wade and its impact on American society / Lucinda M. Finley -- The story of Whitney v. California : the power of ideas / Ashutosh A. Bhagwat -- The story of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette : the pledge of allegiance and the freedom of thought / Vincent Blasi and Seana V. Shiffrin -- The story of Al Smith : the first amendment meets grandfather peyote / Garrett Epps -- The story of City of Boerne v. Flores : federalism, rights, and judicial supremacy / Mark Tushnet -- The story of the Guantánamo cases : Habeas Corpus, the reach of the court, and the War on Terror / Benjamin Wittes and Hannah Neprash.