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National League of Cities v. Usery

Further Readings



  • Biskupic, Joan, and Elder Witt. Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, third edition. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1997.
  • Goldstein, Joseph. The Intelligible Constitution: The Supreme Court's Obligation to Maintain the Constitution as Something We the People Can Understand. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Gordon, Susan L. "New York v. United States: On the Road Back to National League of Cities and Substantive Limits on Congress's Commerce Clause Power." Journal of Energy, Natural Resources & Environmental Law, Vol. 14, 1994, pp. 83- 111.
  • Hall, Kermit L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Kurland, Philip B., ed. The Supreme Court Review. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
  • Levy, Leonard W., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
  • Tushnet, Mark V. "Why the Supreme Court Overruled National League of Cities." Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 47, October 1994, pp. 1623-55.
  • Witt, Elder. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the Supreme Court, second edition. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1990.
  • Witt, Elder, advisory editor. The Supreme Court A to Z. CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government, revised edition. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1994.

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Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1973 to 1980National League of Cities v. Usery - Significance, A Violation Of The Tenth Amendment, The Court Affirms, Dissent: The Tenth As A "truism"