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Introduction and Fundamental Rights

SIDEBAR: The Unwritten Constitution Under Attack
Why America's informal rules matter more than ever
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14. The Shape-Shifting Shield
How “dignity” became constitutional law’s Swiss Army knife
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13. The Cracked Foundation
How Planned Parenthood v. Casey tried to save Roe by weakening it
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12. The Woman Who Wouldn’t Be Named
How Jane Roe built a house of privacy that’s been under siege ever since
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11. The Ninth Amendment: A Hidden Key?
How an overlooked clause helped unlock modern constitutional rights
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10. The Woman Who Opened Pandora’s Box
And why we’re still arguing about shadows sixty years later
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SIDEBAR: The Supreme Court Is In Uncharted Territory
Previous administrations may not have liked court rulings, but there was never a question about whether they would comply
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9. The Road to Privacy
How a German teacher, a nun, a “feeble-minded” girl, and a chicken thief laid the groundwork for a right the Constitution never named
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8. The Footnote That Refuses to Stay a Footnote
It still shapes our thinking about constitutional rights
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7. The Footnote That Changed Everything
On Carolene Products and constitutional hierarchy
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6. The Freedom to Starve
The spectacular crash of laissez-faire jurisprudence (and how a free loaf of bread changed everything)
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5. The Constitutional Bake-Off
Or: The Supreme Court recipe that went very, very wrong
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