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Nov 23, 2024
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POLI 033B PO - American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties
CrsNo POLI033B PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): A. Hollis-Brusky
This course examines the constitutional law and politics of civil liberties and individual rights in the United States through close reading of some of the landmark cases of the United States Supreme Court. The course focuses on the Bill of Rights and the Second Founding, with an emphasis on the First and Fourteenth amendments, paying close attention to the way in which judicial interpretation of the Constitution has shaped and influenced the political and legal struggle over issues such as privacy, segregation and desegregation, affirmative action, abortion, voting rights, free speech, religious liberty and marriage equality.
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