This new, Fifth Edition features updated material throughout, including:
- Significant attention given to developments in law since publication of previous edition
- New material on standing, congressional power, presidential power and the war on terror; preemption, school desegregation; abortion rights and voting rights
- Covers First Amendment issues concerning speech and religion
- Includes recent and significant cases: Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation; Boumediene v. Bush; Hamdan v. Rumsfeld; Wyeth v. Levine; Philip Morris USA v. Williams