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Civil liberties and the Bill of Rights [compact disc] / taught by John E. Finn.

by Finn, John E.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.

United States. Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments.

Civil rights -- United States.

1598031961 (set)

9781598031966 (set)

Great courses (Compact disc)

18 sound discs (18 hr.) in 3 containers : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 266 p. ; 19 cm.)

Pt. 1. Lecture 1. What are civil liberties? -- Lecture 2. The Bill of Rights: an overview -- Lecture 3. The types of liberty: positive and negative -- Lecture 4. The court and constitutional interpretation -- Lecture 5. Marbury v. Madison and judicial review -- Lecture 6. Private property and the founding -- Lecture 7. Lochner v. New York and economic due process -- Lecture 8. The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment -- Lecture 9. Fundamental rights: privacy and personhood -- Lecture 10. Privacy: the early cases -- Lecture 11. Roe v. Wade and reproductive autonomy -- Lecture 12. Privacy and autonomy: from Roe to Casey.

Pt. 2. Lecture 13. Other privacy interests: family -- Lecture 14. Other privacy interests: sexuality -- Lecture 15. Same-sex marriages and the Constitution -- Lecture 16. The right to die and the Constitution -- Lecture 17. Cruel and unusual?: the death penalty -- Lecture 18. The First Amendment: an overview -- Lecture 19. Internal security and the First Amendment -- Lecture 20. Symbolic speech and expressive conduct -- Lecture 21. Indecency and obscenity -- Lecture 22. Hate speech and fighting words -- Lecture 23. The right to silence -- Lecture 24. Why is freedom of religion so complex?

Pt. 3. Lecture 25. School prayer and the establishment clause -- Lecture 26. Religion: strict separation or accommodation? -- Lecture 27. The free exercise clause: acting on beliefs -- Lecture 28. Free exercise and "the Peyote Case" -- Lecture 29. Two religion clauses: one definition? -- Lecture 30. Slavery and Dred Scott to equal protection -- Lecture 31. Brown v. Board of Education -- Lecture 32. Equality and affirmative action -- Lecture 33. Equality and gender discrimination -- Lecture 34. Gender discrimination as semi-suspect -- Lecture 35. The future of equal protection? -- Lecture 36. Citizens and civil liberties.

Thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional order; the Bill of Rights; and the individual provisions of the Bill of Rights and the development of several other specific liberties.

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