Constitutional Amendments/Supreme Court Cases

Pathfinder

Pathfinder created by Patti Rish, Library Media Specialist, Bowling Green High School

Workshop Location: Timberstone Middle School, Sylvania

Companion Action Plan Title: Constitutional Amendments/Supreme Court Cases

Grade: 9

Curriculum/Subject Area: History of Democracy class, Social Studies

Specific topic: Constitutional Amendments/Supreme Court

Brief Summary of the Pathfinder: The History of Democracy students will locate specific examples of Supreme Court cases that have challenged the Constitution and resulted in Constitutional Amendments.

Constitutional Supreme Court Cases/Resources

Infohio Electronic Resources:

Encyclopedia Britannica Annals of American History Infohio resource

Use links American Democracy and /or Government and Law

Search Supreme Court and/or Constitutional Amendments

http://www.infohio.org/ER/secure/America/nwoca.asp

Oxford Reference Online Infohio resource

Politics and Social Science link

Search Supreme Court and Constitutional Amendments

http://www.infohio.org/ER/secure/oxref.asp

Web Links:

United States Constitution Search—Emory School of Law

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconser.html

FirstGov: The US Government’s official web portal (judicial branch information)

http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/Judicial.shtml

Oyez, Oyez, Oyez US Supreme Court Multimedia

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

Findlaw US Supreme Court opinions

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/

Supreme court of the United States

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Touro Law Center Project P.A.T.C.H.: Summary Chart of Cases Reviewed

http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Chart.html

Landmark Supreme Court Cases by Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society

http://www.landmarkcases.org/

Federal Judicial Center

http://www.fjc.gov

Teaching about the United States Supreme Court

http://www.ericdigests.org/2002-2/court.htm

Books:

Monroe, Judy. The Nineteenth Amendment : women's right to vote.   Springfield, NJ : Enslow, c1998.    Traces the history of the women's rights movement in the United States which culminated in 1920 with the passage of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.  324.6 MON

The Bill of Rights: opposing viewpoints.    San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1994.    Does the Constitution need a Bill of Rights? -- Freedom of speech -- Separation of church and state -- National secuity -- The Warren court and the due process revolution -- Historians debate the Supreme Court's impact on the Bill of Rights.   A discussion from differing political persuasions on the value of the Bill of Rights and selected freedoms and rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Includes primary sources.  342.73 B

Constitutional amendments : 1789 to the present.    Detroit : Gale Group, c2000.    Examines all of the amendments that have become part of the U.S. Constitution, discussing the political and social forces and individuals that contributed to each amendment, and considering their influence once passed; and explores the failed amendments, including six passed by Congress but rejected by the states. 342.73 CON

Farish, Leah. The First Amendment : freedom of speech, religion, and the press.    Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1998.    Discusses the definition and history of the First Amendment and considers present day problems regarding the rights it guarantees.  342.73 F

Freedman, Russell. In defense of liberty : the story of America's Bill of Rights.    New York : Holiday House, c2003.    Describes the origins, applications of, and challenges to the ten amendments to the United States Constitution that comprise the Bill of Rights.  342.73 FRE

Hudson, David (David L.), 1969- The Bill of Rights : the first ten amendments of the Constitution.    Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2002.    Traces the history of the writing of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and examines each amendment's provisions and applications in detail.  342.73 HUD

Lindop, Edmund. The Bill of Rights and landmark cases. New York : F. Watts, 1989.    Discusses landmark cases regarding the Bill of Rights.  342.73 L

Schleichert, Elizabeth. The Thirteenth Amendment : ending slavery.    Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1998.    Presents an overview of the history of law concerning slavery in the United States, its abolition by constitutional amendment in 1865, and the Reconstruction and its aftermath.  342.73 SCH

Lucas, Eileen. The Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments : alcohol, prohibition, and repeal.    Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1998.    Discusses the political and social aspects of the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages, as well as the repeal of that law with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment.  344.73 LUC

Wormser, Richard, 1933- The rise & fall of Jim Crow : the African-American struggle against discrimination, 1865-1954.    New York : Franklin Watts, c1999.    Discusses the laws and practices that supported discrimination against African Americans from Reconstruction to the Supreme Court decision that found segregation to be illegal. 305.896073 WOR

Lawson, Don. Landmark Supreme Court cases. Hillside, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, c1987.    Discusses nine landmark Supreme Court cases, addressing such issues as desegregation of schools and the Miranda case, and considers the future of the Supreme Court.  342.73 L

Reference Books:

Pendergast, Tom. Constitutional amendments. from freedom of speech to flag burning.    Detroit : UXL, c2001.    Contains chronologically arranged entries that examine the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States, examining the background of each amendment, ratification facts, and related court cases; and includes a general discussion of the amendment process.  REF 342.73 PEN

Lively, Donald E., 1947- Landmark Supreme Court cases : a reference guide.    Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.    The power of judicial review -- The power of the president -- The power of Congress -- Federal power to regulate interstate commerce -- State police power and the dormant commerce clause -- Federal preemption of state law -- Economic regulation -- Racial issues -- Gender issues -- Fundamental rights -- The First Amendment : freedom of speech -- The First Amendment : freedom of association -- The First Amendment : freedom of the press -- The First Amendment : freedom of religion -- The Fourth Amendment : search and seizure -- The Fifth Amendment : self-incrimination -- The Sixth Amendment : the right to counsel -- The Eighth Amendment : cruel and unusual punishment -- The Fourteenth Amendment.   Profiles seventy-four landmark Supreme Court cases that have had a profound impact on American history and society; each case summary features information to assist in identification of the issue, year of decision, outcome, vote, and author of the opinion.  342.73 LIV

Mauro, Tony. Illustrated great decisions of the Supreme Court.    Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2000.    Agostini v. Felton -- Baker v. Carr -- Bob Jones University v. United States -- Bowers v. Hadwick -- Brandenburg v. Ohio -- Branzburg v. Hayes -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -- Buckley v. Valeo -- Buck v. Bell -- Cantwell v. Connecticut -- Chandler v. Florida -- Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire -- City of Boerne v. Flores -- Civil rights cases -- Clinton v. Jones -- Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health -- Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education -- Dennis v. United States -- Edwards v. Aguillard -- Furman v. Georgia -- Gault, In re -- Gibbons v. Ogden -- Gideon v. Wainwright --Goldberg v. Kelly -- Griggs v. Duke Power Co. -- Griswold v. Connecticut -- Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier -- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States -- Humphrey's executor v. United States -- Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha -- Katz v. United States -- Korematsu v. United States -- Lee v. Weisman -- Lemon v. Kurtzman -- Lochner v. New York -- Loving v. Virginia --  Mapp v. Ohio -- Marbury v. Madison -- McCulloch v. Maryland -- Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson -- Miller v. California -- Milligan, Ex parte -- Miranda v. Arizona -- Muller v. Oregon -- NAACP v. Button -- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. -- Near v. Minnesota -- New Jersey v. T.L.O. -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan -- New York Times Times Co. v. United States -- Oregon v. Mitchell -- Pierce v. Society of Sisters -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Plyler v. Doe -- Powell v. Alabama -- Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge -- Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission --Regents of the University of California v. Bakke -- Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union -- Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia -- Roberts v. United States Jaycees -- Roe v. Wade -- Romer v. Evans -- Rosenberg v. United States --  Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States -- Schenck v. United States -- School District of Abington Township v. Schempp -- Scott v. Sandford -- Shaw v. Reno -- Shelley v. Kraemer -- Sierra Club v. Morton -- Slaughterhouse cases -- Smith v. Allwright -- Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States -- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education -- Terry v. Ohio -- Texas v. Johnston -- Thompson v. Oklahoma -- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District -- United States v. Lopez -- United States v. Nixon -- United States v. The Schooner Amistad -- United States v. Virginia -- Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton -- Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. -- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette -- Yick Wo v. Hopkins -- Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer.  347.73 MAU

The Oxford guide to United States Supreme Court decisions.    New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.    Contains accounts of more than four hundred of the most important cases that have been argued before the Supreme Court.  348.73 OXF

Media:

The U.S. Supreme Court.    Tarrytown, NY : Prentice-Hall Media, 1981, c1982.    Part one describes the structure and function of the Court as it developed from its first session in 1790 to the present. Part two shows how the Supreme Court does not only interpret the law, but actually helps to mold and influence national social policy.  NP 347.73 UNI

Landmark documents in American history.    New York : Facts on File, Inc., 1998.    More than 1,200 speeches, Supreme Court decisions, legislation, treaties, essays, and letters are augmented with portraits, illustrations, photographs, video clips and over 200 biographies.  NP 973 LAN