A recent Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Health Care for America Act underscores the timeliness of a new book co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point professor investigating how Supreme Court rulings have shaped the rights of states vs. the rights of the federal government.
John C. Blakeman, chair of the Political Science Department at UW-Stevens Point, co-authored “The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court” with Christopher P. Banks, associate professor of political science at Kent State University. The book was released in August by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
The research by Blakeman and Banks focuses on the political, legal and constitutional foundations of the court’s decisions that protect state sovereignty and set new constitutional limits on federal power. The two authors study a range of cases including those on federal regulations of businesses, state and local governments, environmental regulation, religious liberty and international trade.
“The research in the book is as current as it gets, and includes the court’s most recent decisions in the Arizona immigration case and the Affordable Health Care Act” said Blakeman. “I’m grateful for the support I received from UW-Stevens Point and the College of Letters and Science. While Point is known for its excellence in teaching, it’s also very supportive of faculty research and publication, which raises the university’s academic reputation among its peers.”
Blakeman also has authored “The Bible in the Park: Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum,” and co-authored a textbook, “The American Constitutional Experience: Selected Readings and Supreme Court Opinions,” now in its third edition.
Blakeman earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Virginia. He teaches courses in constitutional law, civil rights, religion and politics, and European politics, and his research focuses on constitutional law, religion and politics, and federalism.
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