Prologue
Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Creating Context
The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment, with annotations • The Incorporation Doctrine • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: How Would Society Be Different Without the First Amendment?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating Arguments
- The First Amendment (primary source)
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- George Washington and the Touro Synagogue (letters)
- Moses Seixas and George Washington
- Jefferson and the “Wall of Separation” (letter)
- Thomas Jefferson
- Banning the Veil (editorial)
- Linda Chavez
- Declaration of Conscience (speech)
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Irregular Verbs (poem)
- Aquiles Nazoa
- Thoughts That We Hate (book)
- Anthony Lewis
- Are Violent Video Games Protected as Free Speech (oral arguments)
Cluster Two: How Well Does Federalism Protect Individual Rights?
Thinking Skill: Defining Key Words and Phrases
- The Spirit of Liberty (speech)
- Judge Learned Hand
- The Doll Test and the Fourteenth Amendment (book)
- Nat Hentoff
- The Courage of Their Convictions: Fannie Lou Hamer (book)
- Linda R. Monk
- Privacy and the Ninth Amendment (Supreme Court opinion)
- Justice Arthur Goldberg
- The Rights of Americans with Disabilities (web archives)
- Atlanta Legal Aid Society
- You Get Proud by Practicing (poem)
- Laura Hershey
- Putting the Second Amendment Second (web commentary)
- Akhil Reed Amar
Cluster Three: Why Are Suspects’ Rights Important?
Thinking Skill: Integrating Multimedia Information
- Atoms vs. Bits: Your Phone in the Eyes of the Law (article)
- Alexis Madrigal
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (novel)
- George Orwell
- The Work of Brothers (poem)
- Dale Wisely
- The Civil Rights of American Muslims After 9/11 (book)
- Abdus Sattar Ghazali
- In Defense of the Patriot Act (editorial)
- Heather Mac Donald
- Miranda for Juveniles (Supreme Court opinion)
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- Impartial Jurors, Impartial Juries (speech)
- Newton R. Minow
- Emmett Till (poem)
- James A. Emanuel
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Integrating Sources of Information
Students and Free Speech
- Tinker Case Guides Court as Student’s Parody of Principal Is Ruled Protected Speech (news story)
- Beth Hawkins
- Student Speech Can Be Restricted (Supreme Court opinion)
- Chief Justice John Roberts
Students and Privacy
- 'Webcamgate' Shows Youth Are Not Apathetic About Privacy (blog)
- Mario Rodriguez
- Safe Schools, Cell Phones, and the Fourth Amendment (article)
- Bernard James
Students and Criminal Justice
- Adult Time for Adult Crimes (report)
- Charles D. Stimson and Andrew M. Grossman
- Juvenile Justice (website)
- Frontline
