A preliminary meeting agenda follows. University of California Press, 1999. The Constitution has never been short of acclaim. Unfortunately, people can be somewhat hazy on what is actually in there, and, just as importantly, how the courts have interpreted it. Numbered references to cases refer to an alphabetical table of cases, in which each case is given a number to avoid the plethora of footnotes that would result otherwise.
Page numbers following the cites indicate where the case is discussed.
This serves the dual purpose of locating all case cites in a single place, and providing an alphabetical index of cases, most of which do not receive their own entries, but rather are discussed in conjunction with the issues they cover. For those wanting to see what they've been reading about, a copy of the Constitution with an accompanying concordance aids analysis of the document itself. For currentness, the author added a chapter on the Court's 1997-98 term to include information that could not be incorporated into the alphabetical entries at press time. Written in the same readable style as the entries, these brief articles themselves answer many questions that would lead people to this book. I would not overlook them.