The Table of Contents of “Unprecedented”

December 30th, 2012

Here is how the TOC of my in-progress book stands now, but it is likely subject to change.

Author’s Note
Introduction 


Part I. The Once and Future Mandate (1989 – January 20, 2009)

  1. The Individual Mandate’s Heritage
  2. Hillarycare 1.0
  3. Hillarycare 2.0 v. Obamacare 1.0
  4. Obamacare 2.0 v. McCainCare
  5. Health and Change

Part II. Unprecedented (January 21 2009 – March 23, 2010)

  1. Obamacare 3.0
  2. The Constitutional Debate Begins
  3. The Tea Party
  4. The Mayflower Compact
  5. “It’s Unprecedented”
  6. The Senate
  7. The 40th Vote
  8. “Not True”
  9. The House
  10. The President

Part III. Regulating Inactivity (March 23, 2010 – January 31, 2011)

  1. Of Wheat and Weed
  2. Lawsuits Filed Before The Ink Dried
  3. Broccoli & Limiting Principles
  4. “Not a tax increase.”
  5. Virginia and Florida

Part IV. Coercing the States (February 1, 2011-November 13, 2011)

  1. Strings Attached
  2. New Faces
  3. Healthcare Is Unique
  4. Challenges Dismissed
  5. No Limiting Principle
  6. Judicial Restraint

Part V. “Secure the blessings of Liberty” (November 14, 2011 – March 28, 2012)

  1. Baking Freedom
  2. Changing of the Generals
  3. Certiorari is Granted
  4. The Nine
  5. The Stage Is Set
  6. Day One: Tomorrow it’s a tax, but today it’s not
  7. Day Two: He Choked
  8. Day Three, The Morning: A Hollow Shell
  9. Day Three, The Afternoon: Gun To The Head
  10. The Eagle Has Landed

Part VI. Outside The Supreme Court (March 29, 2012 – June 27, 2012)

  1. Thursday Morning Quarterbacks
  2. The Court’s Legitimacy
  3. “False Equivalency”
  4. “Wobbly”
  5. The end of the term.

Part VII. The Power to Tax – June 28, 2012

  1. The Anticipation
  2. The Handdown
  3. “The Saving Construction”
  4. “Invalid In Its Entirety”
  5. “Survives Relatively Unscathed”
  6. The Court is in recess

Part VIII. The Switch In Time That Saved Nine (June 29, 2012 – November 6, 2012)

  1. Immediate Reactions
  2. The Leak
  3. The Court’s Legitimacy
  4. Repeal Obamacare
  5. Romneycare v. Obamacare
  6. The Election

Epilogue

  1. Obamacare is here to stay
  2. Limits on Medicaid
  3. Other challenges