law and constitution.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index.

table of contents.

1. Common law and constitution:Original understanding,Republican Synthesis,and modern transformation;
2. fighting words: common law and liberalism in the American doctrine of free speech;
3. Religious liberty and common law: free exercise exemptions and American courts;
4. Common law and constitutionalism in the abortion case;
5. The common law of the family and the constitutional law of the self;
6. Peremptory Challenge: African Americans, the Jury, and the Constitutionalism of common law;
7. The judicial science of politics: Or why taxation without representation is constitutional and party discipline is not;
8. commerce property, and police;
9. common law, constitution, and world order;