Constitutional Law Resources

Constitutional Law Resources

	Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Dictionaries
Ref KF4548 E53	*Encyclopedia of the American Constitution*. 6 v. 2000. Doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, people, judicial decisions, public acts, and historical periods.
Ref KF4550 Z9.R463	*Constitutional Rights Sourcebook.* 1999. Arranged by amendment and common legal phrases within, and decisions addressing these issues. Overview of amendment and significance of decisions.
Ref KF4557 C665	*Constitutional Amendments 1789 to the Present*. 2000. Arranged by amendment, including overview, origins and chronological development, citing significant cases through the centuries.
Ref KF4550 N6	*Constitutional Law*. 2004. (West Group Hornbook Series) "detailed and comprehensive treatment of basic rules, principles and issues relating to constitutional law."
Ref KF4550 Z9.B35	*Constitutional Law in a Nutshell*. 1999. Sections on Allocation of Powers and Individual Rights and Liberties, including due process, equal protection, freedoms of expression and religion, as shaped by past and recent decisions.
Ref KF4747.5 C47 v. 2	*The Constitutional Law Dictionary: Government Powers*.1987. Focuses on concepts of constitutionalism and American constitutional law, biographical sketches of leading Supreme Court justices and landmark Supreme Court cases.
	*Constitutional Law: An Overview*. [Legal Information Institute at Cornell] http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/constitutional.html
	Text of the Constitution
	*Charters of Freedom: The Constitution of the United States of America* http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/constitution/constitution.html Full text of the US Constitution from NARA.
Ref KF4527 J39	*Constitution of the United States of America*. 1973.
	*LexisNexis Academic* Access Cook Library home page at http://cooklibrary.towson.edu Click on Article Databases A to Z List. Search the full text of the Constitution. Click on Legal Research, then on Federal Code. Change Source: from U.S. Code to Constitution.
	Articles on Constitutional Issues
	Begin on the Cook Library home page at http://cooklibrary.towson.edu Click on Article Databases A to Z List. Select the following databases:
	*LexisNexis Academic* Click on Legal Research. Click on Law Reviews.
	*Academic Search Elite* [Ebsco] Search for abstracts and some full text articles on Constitutional issues from magazines and journals in various disciplines including Political Science, Law and History.
	*America: History and Life* Search for abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in History.
	A Few Resources on the First Amendment
	*First Amendment: An Overview* [Legal Information Institute at Cornell] http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/first_amendment.html
	*U.S. Constitution: First Amendment* [FindLaw] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/
	*Free Expression Network: A Guide to Free Speech and the First Amendment* http://www.freeexpression.org/
	A Few Resources on Criminal Law
Ref KF9219 L38	*Criminal Law*. 2000. (West Group Hornbook Series) Textual treatment of the rules, principles, and issues pertaining to criminal law.
	*Criminal Law: An Overview*. [Legal Information Institute at Cornell] http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/criminal.html
	*Death Penalty: An Overview*. [Legal Information Institute at Cornell] http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html
	*Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project* http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/death/default.htm

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