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Contents: Civil liberties: court help or self-help, by Grenville Clark; The two 14th amendments, by F. L. Windolph; Full faith and credit, by B. F. Cataldo; Public price fixing and due process, by Charles Bunn; Supreme court protection of private rights against state action, by O. P. Field; Equal protection of the laws, by N. T. Dowling; Present importance of the first amendment; by E. P. Cheyney; The impairment of obligation of contracts, by J. G. Hervey.

Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press are three of the core American values outlined in the Constitution. Constitutional Rightsexplains these and other rights contained in one of America's key founding documents. Clear text, helpful sidebars, and color photographs give readers a compelling overview of this important subject. Features include fast facts, a table of contents, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO

We present an instructional strategy called Challenging Constitutional Rights, in which high school civics students critically interacted with, and interpreted, constitutional rights. As an alternative assessment project, students used technologies to make visual and oral presentations on the relationship between a current event and a right detailed in an amendment to the U.S. constitution. In this article, we describe the process of the project, detail the strengths of the project organized around the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Vision of powerful teaching and learning, and conclude with reflections from the teacher who designed and implemented this project. Exemplars of student work are included.

"This book is the first collection of its kind exploring common law constitutional rights. It offers a detailed and comparative analysis of the content and role of individual common law constitutional rights in judicial decision-making; and a series of essays offering a range of perspectives on the constitutional significance and rights implications of this development. There is a developing body of legal reasoning in the United Kingdom Supreme Court that has championed common law constitutional rights. Indeed various members of the senior judiciary have asserted the primary role of common law constitutional rights and critiqued legal arguments based first and foremost on the Human Rights Act 1998. This shift in legal reasoning has created a sense amongst both scholars and the judiciary that something significant is happening here, and was recently described by Lady Hale as 'UK constitutionalism on the march'. This collection brings together leading constitutional scholars to analyse this significant development for the first time"--

Part One: Constitutionalism beyond the State -- 1: Constitutionalism in an Age of Globalisation -- 2: Globalisation and the Reconfiguration of Political Power -- Part Two: Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism -- 3: The Paradigmatic Debate: Liberal Legalism and Legal Pluralism -- 4: Internal Legal Pluralism and the Interpretive Question -- 5: External Legal Pluralism and the Instrumental Question -- Part Three: Constitutional Rights in an Age of Globalisation: Towards a Legal Pluralist Theory of Constitutionalism -- 6: Legal Pluralism and the Politics of Constitutional Definition -- 7: Rights Constitutionalism and the Counterhegemonic Difficulty -- Conclusion: Towards a Legal Pluralist Constitutionalism