Primary reading:
Jerome Agel and Mort Gerberg. The U.S. Constitution for Everyone. New York: Perigee Books, 19941. 64 p. Paper.
E. Alderman & C. Kennedy, In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. Avon Books, 1991. 420 p. Paper.
L. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 325 p. Paper.
*David G. Savage, The Supreme Court and Individual Rights. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 2004. 399 p. Paper. [Main text: selections]
Secondary reading:
David Cole and James X. Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution. Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. New York: The New Press, 2002.
E. Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, The Right to Privacy. New York: Vinatge Books, 1997.
R.E. Calvert, ed. The Constitution of the People: Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
M. Kammen, Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture. Jackson Miss.: Banner Books, 2001.
T. Hayden & J. Novik, Eds. Your Rights to Privacy. With sample form to obtain documents under the Freedom of Information Act. New York: Avon, 1980.
Herman Schwartz, Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts. N.Y.: Nations Books, 2004. 328 p.
L.H. Tribe and M. C. Dorf, On Reading the Constitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1991.
L.H. Tribe. Abortion: A Clash of Absolutes. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
W.M Wiecek, Liberty under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life. Baltimore/London: Josh Hopkins UP, 1988. Paper.
Web sites:
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html.
http://www.counsel.cua.edu/FEDLAW/A-Z.cfm.
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/
http://www.lifeintheusa.com/government/billofrights.htm
Supplementary reading:
Amnesty International. United States of America: Rights for All. 1998.
Laughlin McDonald and John A. Powell, eds. ACLU Handbook for Young Americans: The Rights of Racial Minorities. New York: Puffin Books, 1998.
F.S. Martin and R.U. Goelhlert. How to Research the Supreme Court. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1992.
Ole O. Moen. Race, Color, and Partial Blindness: Affirmative Action under the Law. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2001.
Bernard Schwartz. A History of the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
Girardeau A. Spann. Race against the Court: The Supreme Court & Minorities in Contemporary America. New York/London: New York Univ. Press, 1993.
Norman Vieira. Constitutional Civil Rights. Nutshell Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1990.
Charles F. Wilkinson. American Indians, Time, and the Law. New Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press, 1987.