American Constitutional Law. First edition. Mineola, 1978

1978. Tribe, Laurence H. American Constitutional Law. Mineola, New York: The Foundation Press, 1978. First edition. lxix, 1204 pp. Original red buckram with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Light shelfwear. A former owner's name on the fore-edge. A former owner's inscription "Alice Washington/ Washington College of Law/ American University" to front free endpaper, else a very good copy. $150. * First edition. Contents: Approaches to Constitutional Analysis; Model I-The Model of Separated and Divided Powers; Federal Judicial Power; Federal Executive Power; Federal Legislative Power: Congressional Authority and the Implications of State Sovereignty; Federalism-based Limits on State and Local Power: Regulation and Taxation of Commerce, Federal Supremacy, and Problems of Interstate Discriminatioin; Direct Protectioin of Individuals and Groups: Models Beyond the Separation and Division of Power; Model II-The Model of Implied Limitations on Government: The Rise and Fall of Contractual Liberty; Model III-The Model of Settled Expectations: Uncompensated Takings and Contract Impairments; Model IV-The Model of Governmental Regularity: Ex Post Facto Laws, Bills of Attainder, and Procedural Due Process; Model V-The Model of Preferred Rights: Liberty Beyond Contract; Rights of Communication and Expression; Rights of Political Participation; Rights of Religious Autonomy; Rights of Privacy and Personhood; Model VI-The Model of Equal Protection; Model VII-Toward a Model of Structural Justice?; The Problem of State Action. The work which made Tribe's name and led Erwin Griswold to say "[I]t may well be that no book, and no lawyer not a member of the Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law.