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The
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The following are potential resources
that will assist you in your exploration of how the Bill of Rights
applies to contemporary society. Best search term=
"The Bill of Rights", United
States
Print Resources
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Students: Supreme Court Cases for and About Students
(344.73 PAT)
Examines Supreme Court cases that directly affect them. The cases
involve issues that are of high interest to students, such as drug
use, sex and censorship, and freedom of speech and thought. |
Constitutional Amendments: From Freedom of Speech to Flag Burning
(342.73 PEN)
Covering each of the 27
amendments, this 3-vol. resource provides the history and social
context of the amendment process. The introduction includes a
general essay on the Constitution and adopting new amendments,
followed by chapters highlighting each amendment.
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The Supreme Court and
Individual Rights (342.73)
Focusing primarily on the revolution in constitutional law over
the last century, the book provides full coverage of the freedoms
outlined in the Bill of Rights, the right to vote and to engage in
political participation, the individual’s right to due process
under the law, and modern equality issues such as affirmative
action and rights allowed illegal immigrants to the United States. |
Online Databases & Internet Directories
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Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a
one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues and features
viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal,
and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and
podcasts, and links to Websites. |
Best Bet:
Search [United
States Bill of Rights] in Opposing Viewpoints
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Student Resources in Context Contains thousands of online primary documents, biographies, topical
essays, background information. |
Best
Bet:
Search
[United States Bill of Rights]
Look
for Portal page called "Constitution and the Bill of Rights"
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Gale's Global Issues in Context This resource empowers users with the tools they need to
understand today’s world issues
from a global perspective. Issues and countries form the core
of this dynamic product, which uses a wealth of resources to explain the
historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global
issues, conflicts, and events. It
includes a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current
events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies,
women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more.
[Password required for at-home access.] |
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Bill of Rights Defense
Committee
This database provides access to the ongoing national
debate about civil liberties and antiterrorism legislation
that threaten liberties, such as the USA PATRIOT Act, Homeland
Security Act, and several federal executive orders |
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Legal Track
LegalTrac®
provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law
reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and
international legal journals. LegalTrac® also
contains law-related
articles from over 1,000 additional business and general
interest titles. |
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Multnomah County
Library - Social Issues
This Internet directory is an excellent resource for
researching
current social issues
from multiple perspectives." Arranged by topics, including
abortion, affirmative action, AIDS, animal rights, capital
punishment, censorship, civil rights, creation science vs.
evolution, drugs, euthanasia and assisted suicide, flag burning,
gimmigration, school prayer, |
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Internet
Resources
If
you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try
your
own keyword search using the following tips...
Internet Search Tips
- Type the URL (web site
address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex:
www.yahoo.com,
or
www.google.com,
etc.
- (Be sure to type the address
exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and
punctuation).
- Type in keyword(s). (If your
keyword has two parts such as: "search and seizure", be sure to
put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet
sites about search and seizure as opposed to all of the sites
containing the word search plus all of the sites containing the word
seizure.
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If you would like
to search for something specific about a search and seizure, try a
combined
keyword search by
adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For
instance; if I wanted to find out about search and seizure of school
lockers, I would enter the following:
"search and seizure", school, lockers
- Hit Enter on your keyboard, or
click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and
click on the links that sound best.
- Be sure to evaluate each
Internet site for the following:
- Authority: Can you tell if
the author is credible (believable)?
- Objectivity: Is the
information objective (honest and free of bias)?
- Currency: Is the information
recent and up-to-date?
- Design: Is the site designed
in a clear and user friendly way?
- Navigation: Is the site easy
to navigate through, and are all links current and usable?
- Remember: if you choose to use any information
(text or graphics) found on an Internet source,
you must include it in your
bibliography.
Remember:
YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU
USED to gather information on your
Works Cited (Bibliography) page. Use the
Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.
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