Online Resources
First Amendment Center
Nashville, Tenn. : First Amendment Center, 2003-
Features comprehensive research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics, a First Amendment library and guest analyses by legal specialists and related news stories. Click on First Amendment Topics for backgrounders on school dress codes, campus speech codes, cameras in the courtroom, public religious displays, rating and labeling of entertainment, etc.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
Landmark Supreme Court cases
Washington, D.C. : Street Law & the Supreme Court Historical Society, c2002-
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases. While these activities are online, many of them can be adapted for use in a one-computer classroom or a classroom with no computer. The general teaching strategies include moot court, political cartoon analysis, continuum exercises, and Web site evaluation.
http://ww.landmarkcases.org/
Sienna College Political Science Website
http://www.siena.edu/lombardo/neweb/ampolitics/Constitution/constitution.htm
Reference Sources
100 Americans making constitutional history : a biographical history / edited by Melvin I. Urofsky.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2004.
“100 Americans Making Constitutional History: A Biographical History presents profiles of key people behind some of the most important U.S. Supreme Court cases. Each profile reveals the human side of these cases, from the early republic to the present.”–BOOK JACKET.
REFERENCE (MAIN) KF4549 .O54 2004
The Constitution and its amendments / Roger K. Newman, editor in chief.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1999.
REFERENCE (MAIN) KF4557 .C66 1999 v.1-4
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution / edited by Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.
REFERENCE (MAIN) KF4548 .E53 2000 v.1-6
Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court / Paul Finkelman, Melvin I. Urofsky.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2003.
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The U.S. Constitution A to Z / Robert Maddex
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2002.
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Constitutional rights sourcebook / Peter Renstrom
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999.
The Constitution and the Supreme Court: a brief introduction — The First Amendment –The Fourth Amendment — The Fifth Amendment — The Sixth Amendment — The Eighth Amendment — Equal protection and privacy — Legal words and phrases — Appendices: Constitution of the United States — Justices of the Supreme Court — Court composition since 1900.
REFERENCE (MAIN) KF4550.Z9 R463 1999
Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial legal issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by M. Ethan Katsh and William Rose.
Guilford, Conn. : McGraw Hill/Dushkin, c2002.
REFERENCE (MAIN) KF384.A2 T33 2002
Encyclopedia of constitutional amendments, proposed amendments, and amending issues, 1789-2002 / John R. Vile
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2003.
“This second edition has been expanded by more than a third and is the only reference work that tells the whole story of constitutional amendments: the rigorous ratification process, the significance of the amendments that made it, and the notable and sometimes preposterous topics of the thousands that didn’t.”–BOOK JACKET.
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Birth of the Bill of Rights : encyclopedia of the Antifederalists / Jon L. Wakelyn
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
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Circulating
A brilliant solution : inventing the American Constitution / Carol Berkin
New York : Harcourt, c2002.
The call for a convention — Making Mr. Madison wait — A gathering of demigods — The perils of power — Schisms, threats, and compromises — Debating the presidency once again — The convention ends — The battle for ratification — The inauguration of President George Washington.
“We know – and love – the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis’s defeat. We forget, though, that the Articles of Confederation and our first attempts at self-government were disasters; the post-revolutionary Confederation slipped quickly into factional bickering and economic crisis. In 1787, a group of lawyers and politicians, some famous and others just ordinary men, journeyed to Philadelphia, determined to create a more stable framework of government, hoping that it would last long enough to bring an end to the crisis.” “Delegates to the Constitutional Convention had no great expectations for the document they were fashioning. But somehow, in the amalgam of ideas, argument and compromise, a great thing happened: A constitution and a form of government were created that have served us well.” “Revealing that the story of that amazing summer in Philadelphia is more complicated and much more interesting than we have imagined, Carol Berkin makes you feel as if you were there, listening to the arguments, getting to know the framers, and appreciating the difficult and critical decisions being made. Using history as a kind of time travel, Berkin takes the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, explaining their mind-sets, their fears, and their very limited expectations.”–BOOK JACKET.
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Gentleman revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the rake who wrote the Constitution / Richard Brookhiser
New York : Free Press, c2003
“Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris.” “His story is one that should be known by every American – after all, he drafted the Constitution, and his hand lies behind many of its most important phrases. Yet he has been lost in the shadows of the Founders who became presidents and faces on our currency. As Brookhiser shows in this sparkling narrative, Morris’s story is not only crucial to the Founding, it is also one of the most entertaining and instructive of all. Gouverneur Morris, more than Washington, Jefferson, or even Franklin, is the Founding Father whose story can most readily touch our hearts, and whose character is most sorely needed today.” “He was a witty, peg-legged ladies’ man. He was an eyewitness to two revolutions (American and French) who joked with George Washington, shared a mistress with Talleyrand, and lost friends to the guillotine. In his spare time he gave New York City its street grid and New York State the Erie Canal. His keen mind and his light, sure touch helped make our Constitution the most enduring fundamental set of laws in the world. In his private life, he suited himself; pleased the ladies until, at age fifty-seven, he settled down with one lady (and pleased her); and lived the life of a gentleman, for whom grace and humanity were as important as birth. He kept his good humor through war, mobs, arson, death, and two accidents that burned the flesh from one of his arms and cut off one of his legs below the knee.” “Above all, he had the gift of a sunny disposition that allowed him to keep his head in any troubles. We have much to learn from him, and much pleasure to take in his company.”–BOOK JACKET.
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Constitutionalism and American culture : writing the new constitutional history / edited by Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Kermit L. Hall, and Robert J. Kaczorowski ; foreword by Stanley N. Katz.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2002.
Foreword / Stanley N. Katz — Pt. I. Constitutional Contexts. 1. Constitutional Contexts: The Theory of History and the Process of Constitutional Change in Revolutionary America / David Thomas Konig. 2. The Inverted Constitution: Enforcing Constitutional Rights in the Nineteenth Century / Robert J. Kaczorowski. 3. The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought: Preface to the Modern Constitution / William M. Wiecek — Pt. II. The Modern Constitutional Republic in Historical Perspective. 4. Free Speech and the Bifurcated Review Project: The “Preferred Position” Cases / G. Edward White. 5. The Roles of Lawyers in a Civil Liberties Crisis: Hawaii During World War II / Harry N. Scheiber and Jane L. Scheiber. 6. Constitutional Equality for Women: Losing the Battle but Winning the War / Cynthia Harrison. 7. The Warren Court and Equality / Michal R. Belknap. 8. The Overlooked Litigant in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) / John W. Johnson. 9. Cultural History and the First Amendment: New York Times v. Sullivan and Its Times / Kermit L. Hall — Pt. III. New Directions in American Constitutional History. 10. “Words as Hard as Cannon-Balls”: Women’s Rights Agitation and Liberty of Speech in Nineteenth-Century America / Sandra F. VanBurkleo. 11. Race, State, Market, and Civil Society in Constitutional History / Mark Tushnet. 12. Constitutional History and the “Cultural Turn”: Cross-Examining the Legal-Reelist Narratives of Henry Fonda / Norman L. Rosenberg.
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Corwin & Peltason’s understanding the constitution / Sue Davis, J.W. Peltason, Edward Corwin Samuel
Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004.
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How democratic is the American Constitution? / Robert Alan Dahl
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.
“In this book, one of our most eminent political scientists poses the question, “Why should we uphold our Constitution?” The vast majority of Americans venerate the American Constitution and the principles it embodies, but many also worry that the United States has fallen behind other nations on crucial democratic issues, including economic equality, racial integration, and women’s rights. Robert Dahl explores this vital tension between the belief of Americans in the legitimacy of their Constitution and their belief in the principles of democracy.”–BOOK JACKET.
Ch. 1. Introduction: Fundamental Questions — Ch. 2. What the Framers Couldn’t Know — Ch. 3. The Constitution as a Model: An American Illusion — Ch. 4. Electing the President — Ch. 5. How Well Does the Constitutional System Perform? — Ch. 6. Why Not a More Democratic Constitution? — Ch. 7. Some Reflections on the Prospects for a More Democratic Constitution — App. A. On the Terms “Democracy” and “Republic”
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The democratic constitution / Neal Devins and Louis Fisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Judicial supremacy as orthodoxy — Who participates? — Federalism — Separation of powers — The war power –Privacy — Race — Speech
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Courting disaster : the Supreme Court and the unmaking of American law / Martin Garbus
New York : Times Books, 2002.
1. The Unmaking of American Law — 2. The Right’s Twenty-Year Attack on the Federal Judiciary — 3. Crime and Punishment –4. Morality and Values: Sex, Abortion, and Women’s Rights — 5. Federalism and States’ Rights — 6. Capitalism and the Free Market: Rolling Back the Clock to the 1900s — 7. Race, Gender, and Ethnicity — 8. Affirmative Action: Putting the Nail in the Coffin — 9. Religion — 10. Conclusion: Courting Disaster.
“Martin Garbus, one of the country’s most celebrated trial lawyers and First Amendment attorneys, has been watching the Court closely for decades, and in Courting Disaster, he argues that it’s time to acknowledge that the Court has been a political hotbed for years. For more than a generation, the Supreme Court has been quietly but aggressively rolling back legislation that has been fundamental to our justice system and economy since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. Although they may remain on the books, laws concerning everything from abortion to the rights of suspects have been all but eviscerated.”
“Courting Disaster offers a cogent analysis of the recent history of the Court, as well as the entire federal judiciary, and explains the complex workings of the different courts. Garbus examines and evaluates each of the nine current justices, and shows us, case by case, how critically important the vote of a single justice can be.”–BOOK JACKET.
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Same sex marriage and the Constitution / Evan Gerstmann
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Pt. I. The Challenge of Same-Sex Marriage — 1. Introduction — 2. Reason and Prejudice: Is the Heterosexual Monopoly on Marriage Rational? — 3. Looking for Stricter Scrutiny: Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class-Based Equal Protection — Pt. II. Marriage as a Fundamental Constitutional Right — 4. The Fundamental Right to Marry — 5. Same-Sex Marriage and the Fundamental Right to Marry — Pt. III. Rights and Equality — 6. Should Courts Create New Rights? — 7. Identifying Fundamental Rights — Pt. IV. Rights in a Democratic Society — 8. Democracy, Neutrality, and Consistency of Principle — 9. Principles and Practicalities.
(LOWER LEVEL) KF539 .G47 2004
GENDER RESOURCE CENT GLBTQ-33 HOLMES HOUSE
May it amuse the court : editorial cartoons of the Supreme Court and the Constitution / by Michael A. Kahn and Harry Pohlman
Athens, Ga. : Hill Street Press, c2005.
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Original sin : Clarence Thomas and the failure of the constitutional conservatives / Samuel A. Marcosson
New York : New York University Press, c2002.
Ch. 1. I Never Lie — Ch. 2. Multitudes in Me — Ch. 3. Hypothesis Testing — Ch. 4. States of Grace? — Ch. 5. The Smoking Gun — Ch. 6. A Bridge over Troubled Waters? — Ch. 7. Any More Such Victories… — Ch. 8. Legitimation.
“Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers’ and ratifiers’ intent. Original Sin argues that the “jurisprudence of original intent,” represented on the current Supreme Court by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, has failed on its own terms. Attempts to determine the framers’ intent have not brought greater determinacy and legitimacy to the process of constitutional interpretation. Instead, the method has been marked by the very flaws – including self-interested reasoning and the manipulation of doctrine – that originalists argue marred the jurisprudence of the judicial “activists” of the Warren Court.”–BOOK JACKET.
(LOWER LEVEL) KF8742 .M27 2002
Cruel and unusual : Bush/Cheney’s new world order / Mark Crispin Miller
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2004.
“But as Mark Crispin Miller argues that we are living in a state that would appall the Founding Fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more “conservative” than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans’ unprecedented lawlessness, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet, their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness, and, above all, their long campaign against American democracy.”–BOOK JACKET.
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The Bill of Rights : a user’s guide / Linda R. Monk
Alexandria, VA : Close Up Pub., 2004.
(LOWER LEVEL) KF4750 .M66 2004 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
On two wings : humble faith and common sense at the American founding / Michael Novak
San Francisco, CA : Encounter Books, 2002.
Preface: The Forgotten One Hundred — Ch. 1. Jewish Metaphysics at the Founding — Ch. 2. Two Beat as One: Plain Reason, Humble Faith — Ch. 3. Immoral Man, Moral Society, Religious Liberty — Ch. 4. A Religious Theory of Rights — Ch. 5. Ten Questions About the Founding. 1. You Wouldn’t Pray to “Nature’s God,” Would You? 2. Wasn’t the Religion of the Founders Merely Utilitarian? 3. “Common Sense” and “Faith” Have Many Meanings, No? 4. When and Why Did Legal Elites Become Hostile to Religion? 5. Does the Logic of the Founding Lead Inexorably to Relativism? 6. Is “Faith” the Same as “Natural Theology”? 7. Does America Subordinate Religion? 8. Why Do Scholars Today Clip “The Second Wing”? 9. If Aquinas Was the First Whig, Why Did a Regime of Religious Liberty Appear So Late? 10. What Is Your Favorite Story from the Founding? — App. The Forgotten Founders.
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What kind of nation : Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the epic struggle to create a United States / James F. Simon
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.
“Swindling propositions” — “The reign of witches” — A sense of duty — Defending the President — Prelude to a revolution — “The fangs of Jefferson” — “The least dangerous” branch — Mr. Marbury’s missing commission — A “bungling way” to remove judges — Treason against the United States — Final battles.
“What Kind of Nation is an account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary. The clash between fellow Virginians (and second cousins) Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall remains the most decisive confrontation between a president and a chief justice in American history. Fought in private as well as in full public view, their struggle defined basic constitutional relationships in the early days of the republic and resonates still in debates over the role of the federal government vis-a-vis the states and the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret laws.” “More than 150 years after Jefferson’s and Marshall’s deaths, their words and achievements still reverberate in constitutional debate and political battle. What Kind of Nation is a dramatic rendering of a bitter struggle between two shrewd politicians and powerful statesmen that helped create a United States.”–BOOK JACKET.
(LOWER LEVEL) KF4541 .S53 2002
A Court divided : the Rehnquist court and the future of constitutional law / Mark V. Tushnet
New York : W.W. Norton Co., c2005.
William Rehnquist’s court — Two kinds of Republican — Clarence Thomas’s constitution — Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s equal protection clause — Antonin Scalia’s First Amendment — Anthony Kennedy and gay rights — The religious right’s agenda : symbols and money — Holding the line on abortion — Race, affirmative action, and crime — The federalism revolution — The takings project — Big business’s constitution — A Supreme Court united?
BROWSING (MAIN) KF8742 .T87 2005
Women and the United States Constitution : history, interpretation, and practice / edited by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
1. Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship / Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach — The Founding Period — 2. Representation of Women in the Constitution / Jan Lewis — 3. Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic / Norma Basch — 4. The Explanation Lies in Property: Gender and Its Connection to Economic Considerations / Carol Berkin — Reconstruction — 5. Women, Bondage, and the Reconstructed Constitution / Peggy Cooper Davis — 6. The Unkept Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment: A Call for Reparations / Adjoa Aiyetoro — Women and the Welfare State — 7. The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy / Frances Fox Piven — 8. The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty / Patricia Smith — The U.S. Constitution in Comparative Context — 9. Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution / Judith Resnik — 10. What’s Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique / Martha C. Nussbaum — 11. Women’s Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue / Carol C. Gould — Privacy and Family Law — 12. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy, and Equality / Elizabeth M. Schneider — 13. Infringements of Women’s Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion / Lucinda Joy Peach — 14. What Place for Family Privacy? / Martha Albertson Fineman — 15. The Right to Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition / David A. J. Richards — Women and Work — 16. The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment / Eileen Boris — 17. Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach / Susan Sturm — 18. Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited / Joan Williams — Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment — 19. Women and Citizenship: The Virginia Military Institute Case/ Philippa Strum — 20. “Heightened Scrutiny”: An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women / Cynthia Harrison — 21. Whatever Happened to the ERA? / Jane Mansbridge.
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Children’s Literature and Curriculum Material
We the kids : the preamble to the Constitution of the United States / illustrations and foreword by David Catrow
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2002.
OVERSIZE CHILD LIT 342.73 C367w
In defense of liberty : the story of America’s Bill of Rights / Russell Freedman
New York : Holiday House, c2003.
Describes the origins, applications of, and challenges to the ten
amendments to the United States Constitution that comprise the Bill of Rights.
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 342.73 F853i
Constitution study guide
Needham, Mass. : Prentice Hall, c2001.
Presents background material on how the United States Constitution came to be written, how it can be amended to reflect changes in American society, and how it is interpreted by the Supreme Court. Includes an annotated text of the document.
K-12 CURRICULUM Hs.41 P927c 2001
K-12 CURRICULUM Hs.41 P927c 2001 Teach
Being an American : exploring the ideals that unite us / a program of the Bill of Rights Institute
Arlington, VA : Bill of Rights Institute, c2005.
“Provides teachers with five consecutive days of core lesson ideas as well as extension activities that create a context for students to understand the importance of the American experiment … focusing on the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and America’s civic values, as well as on the American heroes who embodied these values.”–Pref.
Appropriate for Middle School and High School.
K-12 CURRICULUM Hs.41 B. . . . . 2005
Compiled by Alice Staples, Fall 2005
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