The significantly revised fourth edition of Constitutional Law: A Context and Practice Casebook reflects important new developments in constitutional law, especially in the areas of executive power and freedom of religion. The authors have reduced the length of the casebook, even while including new cases and without cutting the explanatory essays and review questions that make the casebook a uniquely helpful learning experience for students. As in prior editions, the book offers comprehensive coverage and allows adopters to teach constitutional law in their own way, without having to fight the book. Using its unique electronic "Expansion Pack" system of supplemental modules available via a supplementary website maintained by the authors, adopters can customize their courses while still following the book's structure.

That structure is streamlined into five parts of two chapters each, which cover all the essential doctrines of constitutional law. The book can be used for any general constitutional law course, whether offered in the first semester or later, and whether it covers governmental structure, individual rights, or both.