War and Civil Liberties

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies/Lesson Plans
  5. Endnotes
  6. Teacher References
  7. Student References

The Critical Balance Threatened: Personal Liberties and National Security in Time of War

Charles B. Avery

Published September 2005

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Teacher References

Bovard, James, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. New York, St.Martin's Griffin, 1994

This book will be useful in getting a taste of the encroaching ways government is seeing to become more powerful and to advance its own will, rather than the will of the people.

Bovard, James, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

This book deals with the way the US government has, in the view of the author, trampled the civil liberties of its citizens since 9/11.

Hugle, Linda, Civil Rights/Casualties of Wartime, http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst38.txt (Last accessed on 28 July 2005).

This site is good for a briefing on the way government infringed the civil liberties of its citizens. It goes back to the Roman era. More useful, of course, is the U. S. History section.

Rehnquist, William H., All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime. New York, Vintage Books, Random House. 1998.

This is a very enjoyable and readable book. The book deals with the suspension of Habeas Corpus throughout American history back to the Civil War. A vast majority of the book focuses on Abraham Lincoln.

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