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• Chapter 1. The Judicial Power- Article III of the Constitution (~88 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Standing, Cases and Controversies and Advisory Opinions (~16 Minutes)
  • 2. Timing (Ripeness and Mootness) (~7 Minutes)
  • 3. Political Question Doctrine (~14 Minutes)
  • 4. Marbury v. Madison/Judicial Review (~3 Minutes)
  • 5. Requirements for Supreme Court to review a State Court Judgment (~9 Minutes)
  • 6. Adequate and Independent State Grounds (~3 Minutes)
  • 7. The Doctrine of Abstention (~0 Minutes)
  • 8. Untitled Concept (~0 Minutes)

• Chapter 2. Congress' Commerce Power (~35 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. What Congress can regulate under the Commerce Clause and Gibbons v. Ogden Case (~9 Minutes)
  • 2. Wickard v. Filburn (~6 Minutes)
  • 3. United States v. Lopez Explained (~0 Minutes)
  • 4. Dormant Commerce Clause (~0 Minutes)

• Chapter 3. Congress' Tax and Spend Powers (~48 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Explanation of the Tax and Spend Power (General Welfare Clause) (~0 Minutes)
  • 2. Untitled Concept (~0 Minutes)

• Chapter 4. The Civil War Amendments (~33 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Untitled Concept (~5 Minutes)
  • 2. Untitled Concept (~14 Minutes)
  • 3. Doctrine of Incorporation (~9 Minutes)
  • 4. Explanation of the 15th Amendment (~2 Minutes)

• Chapter 5. Executive Powers (~79 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Executive Agreements (~0 Minutes)
  • 2. Foreign Treaties (~0 Minutes)
  • 3. Appointment and Removal Powers (~0 Minutes)
  • 4. Immunity from Civil Suits (~7 Minutes)
  • 5. Executive Privilege (~4 Minutes)
  • 6. Presidential Pardon Power (~0 Minutes)
  • 7. War Powers and Korematsu v. United States (~7 Minutes)

• Chapter 6. Principles of Federalism (~15 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Supremacy Clause and Preemption (~3 Minutes)
  • 2. McCulloch v. Maryland (~4 Minutes)
  • 3. The Slaughter-House Cases and the Privileges and Immunities Clause (~3 Minutes)
  • 4. Full Faith and Credit Clause (~0 Minutes)

• Chapter 7. Equal Protection (~23 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Brown v. Board of Education (~5 Minutes)
  • 2. Explanation of Rational Basis Test (~6 Minutes)
  • 3. Scrutiny under the Equal Protection of the Law Clause (~10 Minutes)

• Chapter 8. Due Process (~44 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. Overview of Procedural Due Process (~14 Minutes)
  • 2. Abortion Rights (~10 Minutes)
  • 3. Takings Clause (~5 Minutes)
  • 4. Substantive Due Process (~0 Minutes)

• Chapter 9. First Amendment (~150 Minutes)

  Concepts:
  • 1. First Amendment Vagueness Doctrine and Overbreadth Doctrine (~0 Minutes)
  • 2. Symbolic Speech (~0 Minutes)
  • 3. Commercial Speech (~0 Minutes)
  • 4. Explanation of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Case (~0 Minutes)
  • 5. Defamation (~15 Minutes)
  • 6. Defamation of Public/Political Figures (~12 Minutes)
  • 7. Explanation of Obscene Materials (~0 Minutes)
  • 8. Freedom of Association Explanation (~35 Minutes)
  • 9. Free Exercise of Religion Clause (~13 Minutes)
  • 10. Establishment Clause for Religion (~7 Minutes)

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