PLS 4143 - American Constitutionalism: Rights and Liberties

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course examines the protection of individual rights and liberties under the U.S. Constitution. The course begins by reviewing the origin, purpose, and structure of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights and the Due Process Clause. The next focus of the class will be on the First Amendment’s protections of speech, the press, and religious exercise. The course will then focus, in turn, on the rights of the accused, privacy rights, property and economic rights, the right to bear arms, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as these have been interpreted by the Supreme Court.

Availability: WPB: Even Springs

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