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Rights, Liberties, and Justice

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Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center

Lee Epstein
Thomas G. Walker

Rights, Liberties, and Justice

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  • I. THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CONSTITUTION
  • 1. Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court
  • 2. The Judiciary: Institutional Powers and Constraints
  • 3. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
  • II. CIVIL LIBERTIES
  • 4. Religion: Exercise and Establishment
  • 5. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
  • 6. Freedom of the Press
  • 7. The Boundaries of Free Expression: Libel, Obscenity, and Emerging Areas of Government Regulation
  • 8. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 9. Privacy and Personal Liberty
  • III. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED
  • 10. Investigations and Evidence
  • 11. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
  • IV. CIVIL RIGHTS
  • 12. Discrimination
  • 13. Contemporary Approaches to Equal Protection
  • 14. Voting and Representation

Cases

Incorporation Through the Fourteenth Amendment: Early Interpretations

  • Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago 
  • Maxwell v. Dow 
  • Scott v. Sandford 
  • The Slaughterhouse Cases (Butchers' Benevolent Association v. Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughter House Company) 

 

A Standard Emerges

  • Twining v. New Jersey 

 

Incorporation in the Aftermath of Palko

  • Adamson v. California 
  • Ramos v. Louisiana
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