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. (Selections)
David G. Savage, The Supreme Court and Individual Rights. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 2004. 399 p. Paper. ( Selections)
Harold J. Sullivan. Civil Rights and Liberties: Provocative Questions and Evolving Answers. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2005. 200 p. Paper
Secondary reading: E. Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, The Right to Privacy. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. L. Baum, American Courts: Process & Policy. 2nd Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. R.E. Calvert, ed. The Constitution of the People: Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991 Robert A. Dahl, How Democratic Is the American Constitution? New Haven, Conn.: Yale Nota Bene S., 2003. L. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 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. M. Kammen, Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture. Jackson Miss.: Banner Books, 2001). 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: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988. David A. Yalof. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Web sites: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html. http://www.counsel.cua.edu/FEDLAW/A-Z.cfm. http://www.lists.asu.edu/archives/fedlaw.html http://www.lifeintheusa.com/government/billofrights.htm
Supplementary reading: Amnesty International. United States of America: Rights for All. London: Amnesty International Publications, 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.