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History 401, US Constitution I
History 402, US Constitution II

Acts of Congress Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court (PDF)

American Constitution

Americans with Disability Act

An End to Executing the Mentally Retarded?

Antifederalist Papers

Articles Of Confederation

Assize of Clarendon (1166)—Defined rights and duties of courts and people in criminal cases.  (PDF)

Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties Balancing Act

CNN's Supreme Court Coverage

Code of Hammurabi (1780 BCE)—Early Mesopotamian legal code laid basis for later Hebraic and European law. (PDF)

Constitutional Interpretation

Constitutional Topics

Constitutions of Clarendon (1164)—Established rights of laymen and the church in England. (PDF)

Court TV

C-Span American Courts

Declaration of Arbroath (1320)—Scotland's declaration of independence from England. (PDF)

Due Process

Election 2000:  Waiting on the Supreme Court

Exploring Constitutional Law

Federalist Papers

Historical Note-on Formation of the Constitution (PDF)

HUD v. Rucker

Judicial Review

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Magna Carta (1215)—Established the principle that no one, not even the king or a lawmaker, is above the law.  (PDF)

Mayflower Compact (1620)—One of the first expressions of the social contract in written form.  (PDF)

National Archives Experience

New Doubts on the Death Penalty

Oyez (Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court)

Presidential Pardons and Clemency Statistics

Proposed Amendments Not Ratified By the States (PDF)

Public Domain on the Stand

Rolling Back the Blue Laws

Sex Crimes and the 5th Amendment

Short Treatise on Political Power, John Ponet (1556) (PDF)

Simplified Constitution (PDF)

Sodomy

State of the Statute of Limitations

Suicide or Accident:  Self-Killing in Medieval England (PDF)

Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975)

Supreme Court Justices

The Civil Rights of Nobody's Friends (sex offenders)

The Election and the Supreme Court

The New Face of the ACLU

The Smoking Gun

The Supreme Court Historical Society

Us and Them (Bill of Rights)

War Powers, Congress and the President

 

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