CALI for Constitutional Law: New Lesson on Same Sex Marriage, Windsor, and Perry

CALI has been updating its lessons this summer, including its Constitutional Law lessons.

There is an entirely new one "Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage in Constitutional Law" covering the basic constitutional issues and arguments in marriage with an emphasis on same-sex marriage litigation. It emphasizes understanding the Supreme Court's 2013 decisions in Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, involving the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), respectively. The last section includes questions concerning the arguments in the issue of state bans on same-sex marriage that will be reaching the Court soon.

 

Other ConLaw Lessons of interest:

Abortion

Contemporary Commerce Clause

The Early Commerce Clause

Eleventh Amendment

Marbury v. Madison

Ripeness and Mootness

Standing

State Action