Primary Sources - United States: Constitution/Bill of Rights

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of civil liberties in America, focusing on issues such as due process, equal protection, freedom of speech, and privacy. It examines controversial topics like the USA PATRIOT Act, Ku Klux Klan free speech cases, and GPS surveillance, highlighting the tension between state authority and individual rights, especially post-9/11. Through historical and modern documents—including Supreme Court cases—the author provides contextual analysis that reveals the legal and societal impact of these pivotal developments.

Analysis of 45 documents, including articles, constitutional documents, court opinions, essays, laws, letters, political tracts, reports, speeches, and testimonies, as well as a checklist from the American with Disabilities Act, and an example naturalization test. These selections help define events surrounding the passionate and controversial history of voters' rights in the United States including important milestones and landmark court cases.

Appendices 1-3 contain primary documents.