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The National Archives Experience: Constitution of the United States.
America's constitution : a biography / Akhil Reed Amar.
New York : Random House, c2005.
KF4541 .A87 2005
Civil peace and the quest for truth : the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutionalism / Murray Dry
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2004.
Contents: The American founding and the puritan origins -- Religious freedom and freedom of speech in the state constitutions of the confederation period -- The federal constitution and the Bill of Rights -- The postfounding debate on Freedom of Speech : the Sedition Act, the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and the Virginia report -- Ancient political philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides) -- Seventeenth century political philosophy (Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Spinoza) -- Montesquieu (the spirit of the laws) -- Mill (on liberty) -- Seditious libel and fifty years of "clear and present danger" : from Schenck to Brandenburg -- The preferred position doctrine and the categorical approach to freedom of speech : libel -- The increased protection for "fighting words" and other "Offensive speech", obscenity, pornography, and commercial speech -- Money and speech and the public forum (or time, place, and manner) doctrine -- Free exercise clause -- The establishment clause I -- The establishment clause II.
KF4783 .D79 2004
The Constitution of 1787 : a commentary / George Anastaplo.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1989.
On Exhibit: KF 4528 .A53 1989
The Constitutional Convention : a narrative history : from the notes of James Madison / Edward J. Larson and Michael P. Winship.
New York : Modern Library, 2005.
KF4510 .M33 2005
Key constitutional concepts [videorecording].
[Philadelphia, Pa.?] : Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, c2006.
Summary: DVD produced by the Annenber Foundation. Creating a constitution--One man changes the constitution, Gideon v. Wainwright--Checks and balances, Youngstown v. Sawyer.
Media Collection: DVD No. 31
Our Constitution : a conversation. [DVD]
[Philadelphia, Pa.?] : Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, c2005.
Summary: United States Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer talk about the Constitution with high school students and discuss why we have and need a constitution, what federalism is, how implicit and explicit rights are defined and how separation of powers ensures that no one branch of government obtains too much power.
Media Collection: DVD No. 30
Constitutional law stories / edited by Michael C. Dorf.
New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 2004.
Contents: Introduction. [Putting the people back in "We the people"] / Michael C. Dorf -- pt. I. The structural Constitution. The story of Marbury v. Madison: making defeat look like victory / Michael W. McConnell ; The story of McCulloch: banking on national power / Daniel A. Farber ; The story of Wickard v. Filburn: agriculture, aggregation, and Congressional power over commerce / Jim Chen ; The story of Clinton v. Jones: Presidential promiscuity and the paths of constitutional retribution / Michael J. Gerhardt -- pt. II. Equality and the Constitution. The story of Dred Scott: originalism's forgotten past / Christopher L. Eisgruber ; The story of Plessy v. Ferguson: the death and resurrection of racial formalism / Cheryl I. Harris ; The story of Brown v. City of Oneonta: the uncertain meaning of racially discriminatory policing under the Equal Protection Clause / R. Richard Banks ; The story of Korematsu: the Japanese-American cases / Neil Gotanda ; The story of Baker v. Carr / Stephen Ansolabehere and Samuel Issacharoff -- pt. III. Liberty and the Constitution. The story of Lochner v. New York: impediment to the growth of the regulatory state / David E. Bernstein ; The story of Roe v. Wade: from a garage sale for women's lib, to the Supreme Court, to political turmoil / Lucinda M. Finley ; The story of Whitney v. California: the power of ideas / Ashutosh A. Bhagwat ; The story of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette: the pledge of allegiance and the freedom of thought / Vincent Blasi and Seana V. Shiffrin ; The story of Al Smith: the First Amendment meets grandfather peyote / Garrett Epps -- Coda: the inter-connection of structure and rights. The story of City of Boerne v. Flores: federalism, rights, and judicial supremacy / Mark Tushnet.
KF4549 .C658 2004
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