Includes bibliography and glossary.

Contents: Establishment and development of judicial power: judicial review: basis of judicial power -- Exercise of judicial power -- Self-imposed limitations on the exercise of judicial power -- Sources and limits of congressional power: Power to investigate -- Commerce power -- Taxing and spending power -- Scope of executive power: Domestic affairs -- Foreign relations -- Distribution of power in the federal system: Shaping the federal system: constitutional theory and political practice -- State power to regulate commerce -- State taxing and spending power -- Interstate relations -- Scope of administrative: the burgeoning bureaucracy: delegation of legislative power -- Exercise of administrative power -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Table of cases.