Please write for each of the topics shown below, a short paragraph (minimum of 5-6 sentences each).
A complete answer will address and answer three questions: What's the topic about? Why? So what's so great about the topic? The "so what" part matters a great deal:
- Calder v. Bull (p. 142)
- Jefferson & Hamilton on the Bank of the US (p. 140)
- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (p. 134)
- Washington's farewell address (p. 132)
- Federalist, Number 78 (p. 123)
- Federalist, Number 10 (p. 120)
- Elbridge Gerry on the Constitution (p. 119)
- The Philadelphia Convention, Madison's notes:Slave trade debate (pp. 115-118)
- The Articles of Confederation (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/artconf.asp)
- Constitution, Article I, §§8-10 (pp. 686-688)
- Hamilton vs. Madison on Presidential Power (p. 131)
- McCulloch v. Maryland (p. 159)
- Gibbons v. Ogden (p. 155)
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward (p. 172)
- Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (p. 176)
- Barron v. Baltimore (p. 191)
- Marbury v. Madison (p. 143)
- Thomas Cobb, "An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery" (p. 221)
- State v. Mann AND State v. Hoover (p. 223, 226; note: same justice wrote both cases-- http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2955048?uid=3739920&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21106610181813)
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania (p. 233)
- Dred Scott v. Sandford (p. 238)
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (p. 255)