USEFUL POLITICAL SCIENCE LINKS
Audio Recordings of Live Supreme Court Arguments
Use this website to download MP3 files of recent court arguments.
The Federalist Papers were documents written by Madison, Hamilton and Jay that provide insight into how our Constitution is supposed to work. This site allows you to search by number or topic.
A useful site that allows you to search a variety of documents and historic cases.
This is by far the most extensive collection of law related materials. The site includes every federal and state court decision. You may search by topic, time period, Amendment, and others. You also have access to law reviews, state and federal statutes and original resource documents.
This site has the financial reports for every House and Senate campaign.
Useful background material and relevant case law on the 11th Amendment. For exceptions to the Amendment, visit,
http://classes.lls.edu/archive/manheimk/fedcts/echarts/11th-t.htm#11thamd2_8
Copy of the Constitution
Analysis of the Patriot Act
If you're struggling with reading
the USA Patriot Act, here is some material to help.
One of the best treatments is the
analysis of the PATRIOT Act section by section by Charles Doyle for the Congressional
Research Service analysis, available at http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/011210crs.pdf.
But you might find another report by
the same analyst even more useful because he organizes his comments
thematically http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31377.pdf
A shorter summary of his analysis
can be found at http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21203.pdf
Some other analyses can be found as
follows:
The Center for Constitutional Rights
- analysis by Senior Attorney Nancy Chang
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/docs/USA_PATRIOT_ACT.pdf
The Federalist Society white paper
on the Patriot Act:
http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/Terrorism/TerrorCrimPro.pdf
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/
CATO institute analysis:
http://www.cato.org/current/terrorism/pubs/levy-martial-law.html