Civil liberties and the Bill of Rights

Part 1. Disc 1. lecture 1. What are civil liberties?

lecture 2. The Bill of Rights: an overview

lecture 3. The types of liberty: positive and negative

lecture 4. The court and constitutional interpretation

lecture 5. Marbury v. Madison and judicial review

lecture 6. Private property and the founding

Disc 2. lecture 7. Lochner v. New York and economic due process

lecture 8. The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment

lecture 9. Fundamental rights: privacy and personhood

lecture 10. Privacy: the early cases

lecture 11. Roe v. Wade and reproductive autonomy

lecture 12. Privacy and autonomy: from Roe to Casey.

Part 2. Disc 3. lecture 13. Other privacy interests: family

lecture 14. Other privacy interests: sexuality

lecture 15. Same-sex marriages and the Constitution

lecture 16. The right to die and the Constitution

lecture 17. Cruel and unusual?: the death penalty

lecture 18. The First Amendment: an overview

Disc 4. lecture 19. Internal security and the First Amendment

lecture 20. Symbolic speech and expressive conduct

lecture 21. Indecency and obscenity

lecture 22. Hate speech and fighting words

lecture 23. The right to silence

lecture 24. Why is freedom of religion so complex?

Part 3. Disc 5. lecture 25. School prayer and the establishment clause

lecture 26. Religion: strict separation or accommodation?

lecture 27. The free exercise clause: acting on beliefs

lecture 28. Free exercise and "the Peyote Case"

lecture 29. Two religion clauses: one definition?

lecture 30. Slavery and Dred Scott to equal protection

Disc 6. lecture 31. Brown v. Board of Education

lecture 32. Equality and affirmative action

lecture 33. Equality and gender discrimination

lecture 34. Gender discrimination as semi-suspect

lecture 35. The future of equal protection?

lecture 36. Citizens and civil liberties.