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University of Kentucky Discovery Seminar Program

DSP 110.002

"I Know My Rights:"

Civil Liberties in the United States

 

Prof. Robert S. Tannenbaum    

 


Related Sites:

This page contains URLs for related Web sites for use by students in the Discovery Seminar. All members of the seminar are invited to submit URLs to Prof. Tannenbaum to be shared with the group.

 

Information on the ballad Geordie as sung by Joan Baez and played in class
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/g/geordie.html

Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/locke/ (html version)
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/locke/government.pdf (pdf version)

U. S. Constitution materials:
http://www.usconstitution.net

Early Documents pertaining to U. S. Constitutional history:
http://memory.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html

More early U.S. documents:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/charters_of_freedom.html

Virginia Declaration of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/bill_of_rights/virginia_declaration_of_rights.html

A history of the creation of the U.S. Constitution:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/constitution/constitution_history.html

The Kentucky Constitution:
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/Legresou/Constitu/intro.htm

The Virginia Declaration of Rights
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/virginia.htm

United States Supreme Court Decisions
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

British Museum's Magna Carta site
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magna.html

American Civil Liberties Union:
http://www.aclu.org

American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky:
http://www.aclu-ky.org

American Civil Liberties Union of University of Kentucky
http://www.geocities.com/ukaclu

2nd Amendment materials from the National Rifle Association: 
http://www.nraila.org/SecondAmendment.asp 

American Civil Liberties Union Position on Gun Control
http://www.aclu.org/PolicePractices/PolicePractices.cfm?ID=9621&c=25

Second Amendment Decision by the United States Supreme Court
United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)

Duke Law Review article on the 2nd Amendment by Prof. Wm. Van Alstyne
http://www.guncite.com/journals/vanalful.html

Comments on Prof. Van Alstyne's 2nd Amendment article
http://www.uky.edu/~rst/A&S112/2nd amendment comments.html

Excellent list of law links prepared by Prof. Roy Moore:
http://www.uky.edu/~moore/jou531/links.html

McCreary County v. ACLU
6th Circuit Decision
6th Circuit Dissent
6th Circuit Dissent from Denial of Rehearing En Banc

Brief opposing the Writ of Certiorari
Brief for McCreary County

Brief for the ACLU
Decision in the Case

The ACLU Freedom Files a series of videos on important civil liberties subjects
http://www.aclu.tv

 

Last updated 8/9/06