It identifies values the government has traditionally upheld and how the government of today continues to reflect those values, while simultaneously examining changes that the government has undergone since the nation’s founding.
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EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.
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The perfect primer for complex current event issues and countries…
Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® series offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries, spanning across popular topics and disciplines including Politics, Economics, Sciences, and Religion.
Available as an online resource since November 2020, WENTKs are written by leading experts in their fields and provide, in a straight-forward question-and-answer format, insight in such a way that students and scholars alike can stay up-to-date on the most important topics leading the discussion today in politics, health, global affairs, and more.
Covers important historical documents from the U.S. Supreme Court as well as other courts in American history.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases by Roy M. Mersky; Gary Hartman
Call Number: R 347.7326 HA
ISBN: 0816024529
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Provides an overview of landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court, including the topics of abortion, antitrust, civil rights, due process, executive privilege, taxation, and more.
Defines and explains each of the twenty-seven amendments, discussing each amendment's historical background, congressional debates, primary documents, biographies of significant individuals, and more.
The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court by David Schultz
Call Number: R 347.7326 SC
ISBN: 0816050864
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
An illustrated A-Z reference containing over 500 entries related to the history, important individuals, structure, and proceedings of the United States Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court by Lawrence Baum
Call Number: 347.7326 BA
ISBN: 9781568028156
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Contains a comprehensive guide to the Supreme Court, examines the Court as a political institution, describes how it operates, and offers explanations for its behavior.
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights by Michael J. Klarman
Call Number: 342.73 KL
ISBN: 0195129032
Publication Date: 2004-02-05
Contents: The Plessy era -- The progressive era -- The interwar period -- World War II era : context and cases -- World War II era : consequences -- School desegregation -- Brown and the civil rights movement.
New Jersey vs. T. L. O. by Deborah A. Persico
Call Number: Details the Supreme Court case that dealt with drug searches by public school employees and debated the Fourth Amendment rights of students.
ISBN: 089490969X
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Details the Supreme Court case that dealt with drug searches by public school employees and debated the Fourth Amendment rights of students.
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