Module 6: Civil Liberties - POL 101 - American Government - Textbook - LibGuides at Hostos Community College Library

Learning Outcomes

To identify and define the civil liberties in the Bill of Rights
To understand the slow process of selective incorporation, extending the Bill of Rights to states
To dissect the meaning of the 8th amendment in terms of cruel and unusual punishment

Chapter 4, American Government
READ Pages 114-137 and pages 144-148 (start with the section extending the Bill of Rights)

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American Government 2E. Project: OpenStax, Rice University. Located at: https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-2e?Book%20details License: CC BY 4.0
Civil Liberties. Authored by: Thomas Patterson. Project: HarvardXEdX. Located at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/thomaspatterson/teaching. License: Copyright 2020 Harvard University.
Second Chance Kids, May 2, 2017. Authored by: Frontline/PBS. Located at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/second-chance-kids/ License: Copyright 2020 PBS.