Endnotes, Glossary & Key Terms

The complete back-matter apparatus, online

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The printed book does not carry its endnotes, glossary, and key-terms section. That material runs to 247 pages, and every endnote ends in a clickable source link. That count is the PDF’s, set on ordinary letter paper rather than the book’s 6×9 trim; nobody prints an apparatus this size at trim, so letter is the figure to go by. On the printed page those links are dead ink. Here they are live, and they are the point.

The argument in this book rests on what the cited authorities actually hold. The book carries no footnotes; this apparatus is its only citation vehicle, and the endnotes are where a reader checks the work — each citation follows Chicago style and closes with a working link to the original source, so any claim can be traced to its document in a single click. Whether you want to verify the case law, the cost figures, the patent lineages, or the historical record, this is where it lives.

The links are not the only advantage. Online, the whole section is searchable: a quick find (Ctrl-F, or Command-F on a Mac) jumps straight to the phrase, case name, or glossary term you have in mind, instead of paging through 247 pages to locate it.

What this section contains

• Apparatus Convention — how the citation apparatus is organized, and how to move between the endnotes, the commentary, the glossary, and the key terms.
• Endnotes Ordering — the ten rules that govern where an entry files: what counts as the headword, how leading articles and punctuation are treated, how numerals and case names sort, and what happens when several entries share a heading. Rules 2 through 5 govern the Glossary and Key Terms as well.
• Endnotes — a single alphabetical list covering the whole book, not a separate set per chapter. The running text carries no superscript numbers. Where a source is named on the page it appears in Chicago author-date form — Yandle (1983) named the pattern — and the full citation is found by looking up that name here. Cases, statutes, and organizations file the same way, under the name as it appears in the text. Every entry ends in a clickable source link.
• Endnote Commentary — longer notes on the sources that reward one: a passage quoted only in part, context the chapter left out for pace, related material worth having. Filed under the same heading as its endnote. Not every endnote has one, and an endnote that does says so.
• Appendix A: SCOTUS Case Master Table — every Supreme Court ruling cited anywhere in the book, more than eighty of them, from 1829 to 2024, sorted by decision year. Each row states what the case actually holds and why it appears. Inclusion is not endorsement: cases cited to concede a point, and cases a defender of the wall would cite in reply, are in the table too, and the notes say so.
• Appendix B: Note on AI-Assisted Authorship — a disclosure of how the manuscript was researched and assembled.
• Appendix C: LLM Responses to Prompt 7 — the full text of every model’s answer to Prompt 7 of the open-book examination chapter, with a link to each model’s complete session.
• Glossary — definitions of the technical and legal terms used throughout the book.
• Key Terms — a quick-reference list of the recurring terms of art and how this book uses them.

This same reference serves every reader; it is identical for all.

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