POL 529 - Civil Liberties and the Constitution

Graduate standing. (3)

Civil liberty issues confronting American society. Rights of freedom of speech, assembly, and press; the religion clauses of the First Amendment; the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as it is concerned with rights of minorities. Students deliver oral arguments and prepare briefs of pending and simulated court cases. Not open to students with credit for POL 329. Graded ABCDE