POL 300, Constitution During Wartime
Mr.Marston, Spring 2003

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Handouts

• Syllabus
• Paper #1 Topic
• Midterm (72KB PDF)
• Midterm (HTML)

Web Readings -- Required

• Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
• The Espionage Act (1918) (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
• Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (Judge Hand's District Court opinion,) (Ward's Circuit Court opinion)
• Stromberg v. California
• DeJonge v. Oregon
• Schneiderman v. U.S.
• War Powers Resolution (1973) (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
• Pentagon Papers Case (from Prof. Altschuler's casebook)
• Cohen v. California
• Ian Mylchreest, "Mr. Ashcroft, Meet Mr. Palmer"
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (courtesy of Prof. Segal, SUNY-Stonybrook)

Web Readings -- Recommended

• "The Gulf War and the Constitution," Michael J. Glennon, Foreign Affairs (1991)
• "Suit Challenges Right to Wage War," Boston Globe, 2/14/2003 (update here)
• "Revisiting the American Japanese Relocation of WWII," Ken Masugi, Claremont Institute
• Emancipation Proclamation of 1 Jan. 1863, courtesy of the National Archives
• Sanford Levison presents the 2001 David Baum Memorial Lecture at the University of Illinois College of Law, "Was the Emancipation Proclamation Constitutional? Do We - Should We -- Care What the Answer Is?" (Watch video here, 96 minutes-- also available on Lexis-Nexis through Penfield Library)
• National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, February 2003 (follow links to PDF versions of the document)
• Patriotwatch (weblog)
• "Fortress America", Matthew Brzezinski, NYT Magazine, 2/23/03
• U.S. v. O'Brien (1968) (draft card burning case)
• David Cole, Patriot Act's Big Brother, The Nation, 3/17/03

Research Links

• Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
• Findlaw
• Lexis-Nexis (through Penfield)
• Medill School of Journalism, On the Docket