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Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century, 4th (American Casebooks)

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This book is useless. As a naive 1L I wasted my time diligently trying to read the cases. By the end of the semester I finally realized that Chemerinsky's treatise told me everything I needed to know in about 25% of the words.

I agree with the previous reviewer's point that the text between cases is NOT analysis. It is just filler that is unenlightening. Save your money. Buy Chemerinsky's treatise instead. Don'just take my word for it: check out the average Amazon rating and the number of reviews for his treatise.

This case book does a great job of presenting the cases and materials in an interesting manner that makes for easy reading.

I'm just trying to tell you how to save 100 bucks. Don't buy this book. It is nothing special, it's just a book full of Supreme Court cases.

Supreme Court cases are published everywhere, you can type the parties of almost any case into a search engine and get a complete text of a case online for FREE. Some textbooks are assembled in a manner that helps the student understand the most important aspects of a body of law. This book does not do this. All it does is present the cases in an unorganized form. The author doesn't even bother to sum up the current body of Constitutional Law. He just mechanically presents the cases and asks rhetorical questions.

There is no reason for you to dish out a bill to get this worthless book. The analysis between Supreme Court cases is NOT really analysis. The pathetic author just asks rhetorical questions about the ruling and they contribute NOTHING to understanding the body of Constitutional Law.

If you are a student on a budget, don't buy this book. Look at your Constitutional Law class syllabus, see which cases you are discussing, and pull them up on the web.

If you are a trust baby, then buy this book so you can look like part of the crowd. But if you'd rather spend the hundred bucks on something else, then don't waste your money.