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Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, Examples & Explanations, Second Edition (Examples & Explanations Series)

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I bought this book because I found the E & E Civil Procedure book extremely helpful. This one was good, but didn't have as many concrete problems as the civ pro book did. Because I needed help drawing out doctrine (my course was policy-heavy), I would have liked more of that. However, the summaries of various issues in Con Law were clear and concise, and it did a nice job of placing various cases within the different strands of the law and explaining what they had accomplished.

Also, the book is organized very differently from how my professor taught it - if you're covering separation of powers as its own unit later in the course, you might have the same problem, because the authors put some separation of powers stuff (but not all) in the section on Justiciability. You just have to kind of skip around it, but the section headings are clear, so it should be easy to recognize when you've fallen into uncovered material.

This book has helped me understand and make sense of [sometimes] the convoluted Constitutional Law cases. Con Law can be quite intimidating for first year students [like many things on campus] and having only the casebook does not help.

The "Examples and Explanations" series helped me gain another perspective on the ideas from the casebook; also, the problems and explanations after and during each chapter actually engage the reader in applying the material into problems, hoping the exam question will be similar (year, right!).

This study aide was extremely helpful for exam review. This book provides the student who has kept up in class with a succinct overview of the topic. When you are reading case after case during the semester, it is easy to miss the overall course ideology, unless you have a good professor who will tie it all together for you. This book is good at providing the appropriate level of detail to the student for a comprehensive review of the critical points in Con Law I.

Normally, I recommend Examples & Explanation series over any of the other commerical outlines out there. I was very disappointed with both Constitutional Law books however. The examples are unhelpful, especially when a lot of the answers depend on material you won't learn for several chapters! Some of the text is useful but much of it is the authors biased view of what cases mean or should mean. This isn't helpful if you are not taking the class from them!

Overall, I was extremely disappointed in these two books. Not worth the money.

The book arrived as promised and better than described. Would definitely deal with this purveyor in the future.