POLS 4030 - American Constitutional Law II: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Spring [Full Sem]

An introduction to many of the basic doctrines of American Constitutional Law relating to civil rights and civil liberties including: The process of selective incorporation - why and how the Bill of Rights applies to the states; property rights in the United States, those rights afforded to criminal defendants; First Amendment liberties – freedom of speech, press, and freedom of religion; the rights and liberties that have emerged from the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; and, finally, the controversial and evolving “right of privacy.”