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With this purchase, you will receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking is the premier textbook in the field for a historical approach to Constitutional Law that helps students understand the origins of current constitutional controversies. In this book, an extraordinary team of authors traces the historical, political, and social development of constitutional law. Students will consider constitutional questions in a broad historical context, with cutting-edge insights from contemporary scholars. This book has been updated to include all new developments in the field, and delivers strong chapters on the constitutional treatment of race, sex, sexual orientation, civil rights, separation of powers, and federalism. New to the Ninth Edition: - Trump v. United States (presidential immunity) - Trump v. Anderson (presidential disqualification) - Trump v. Wilcox (presidential removal and independent federal agencies) - Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (abortion) - SFFA v. Harvard (affirmative action) - United States v. Skrmetti (transgender rights) - New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (Second Amendment) - United States v. Rahimi (Second Amendment) - New materials on executive power - New coverage of State Action Doctrine - New Note on the Rights Revolution of the 1960s Benefits for instructors and students: - Traces the historical, political, and social development of constitutional law, and