Primary reading:
Jerome Agel and Mort Gerberg. The U.S. Constitution for Everyone. New York: Perigee Books, 1991. 64 p. Paper.
Court Decisions: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html. Selections.
Mack C. Shelley, et al. Readings in American Government. 4th ed. London: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003. 218 p. Selections. Paper.
W. M. Wiecek. Liberty under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988. 200 p. Paper.
Robert A. Dahl, How Democratic is the American Constitution? New Haven, Conn.: Yale Nota Bene S., 2003. 198 p. Paper.
Compendium ENG2573: American Society and the Law: Documents. Unipub/Akademika, 2004. Reprinted from: Richard B. Morris, ed. Basic Documents in American History. New York: D. Van Norstrand Co., Inc., 1956 (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
- Doc. 1: The Mayflower Compact, 1620
- Doc. 2: The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
- Doc. 3: The Declaration of Independence, 1776
- Doc. 4: The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, 1786
- Doc. 5: The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
- Doc. 6: The Dred Scott Case, 1857
- Doc. 7: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
- Doc. 8: The Gettysburg Address, 1863
- Doc. 9: The Platt Amendment, 1901
- Doc.10: The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 1904
- Doc.11: The Atlantic Charter, 1941
- Doc.12: The Truman Doctrine, 1947
- Doc.13: The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949
Compendium ENG2573: American Society and the Law, No.2 (Available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
- 'How our Government Works', Washington D.C.: U.S.News & World Report, Jan 28, 1985 (16 p.).
Compendium ENG2573: American Society and the Law, No.3 (Available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
- 'American Justice: ABC's of How it Really Works', Washington D.C.: U.S.News & World Report, Nov 1, 1982 (24p.).
Secondary reading:
Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy. The Right to Privacy. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. Paper.
Amnesty International. United States of America: Rights for All. 1998
Trudy Hayden & Jack Novik, Eds. Your Rights to Privacy. With sample form to obtain documents under the Freedom of Information Act. New York: Avon, 1980. Paper.
Ole O. Moen. Race, Color, and Partial Blindness: Affirmative Action under the Law. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2001. Paper.
Herman Schwartz. Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts. N.Y.: Nations Books, 2004. 328 p.
Girardeau A. Spann. Race against the Court: The Supreme Court & Minorities in Contemporary America. New York/London: New York Univ. Press, 1993.
Verney, Kevern. Black Civil Rights in America. London/New York: Routledge, 2000. 120 p. Paper.
Norman Vieira. Constitutional Civil Rights. Nutshell Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1990. Paper.
Charles F. Wilkinson. American Indians, Time, and the Law. New Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press, 1988. Paper.
Web sites:
http://www.counsel.cua.edu/FEDLAW/A-Z.cfm