Constitutional Limits on Government: Resources

Resources

Essential Principles

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy. New Haven, CT: Yale Law School, 2008.
   Federalist Papers No. 47. "The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts."
   Federalist Papers No. 48. "How These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other."
   Federalist Papers No. 49. "Method of Guarding Against the Encroachments of Any One Department of Government."

King, Martin Luther, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963. Available at African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Paine, Thomas. Common Sense (1776). Available online at USHistory.org.

Rustin, Bayard, A Time on Two Crosses, Collected Writings (2003). San Francisco: Cleiss Press.

Wiesel, Elie. Night (1960). New York: Hill and Wang.

France

Economist magazine: Topics Index: France.

The New York Times: World: Times Topics: France. See, e.g.,
   “French Ban on Face Veils Upheld by European Human Rights Court” (July 1, 2014)
   “Beating of Roma Boy Exposes Tensions in France’s Underclass” (June 25, 2014).
   “For Hateful Comic in France, Muzzle Becomes a Megaphone” (Mar. 10, 2014).
   “France’s Highest Court Says Head Scarf No Cause for Dismissal” (Mar. 19, 2013).

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy. New Haven, CT: Yale Law School, 2008.
   Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789 (link).

Hacken, Richard. "EuroDocs—History of France: Primary Documents" (2006). Brigham Young University.

Jones, Colin. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for France).

Guatemala

Economist magazine: Topics Index: Guatemala. See e.g., 
     “A Former Dictator’s Conviction May Not Be the End of Tragic Story” (May 18, 2013).

The New York Times: World: Times Topics: Guatemala

Doyle, Kate. "The Guatemalan Police Archives" (Nov 21, 2005). National Security Archive.

Global Exchange: Guatemala Resources.

Human Rights Watch. World Report 2015: Guatemala.

International Crisis Group, “The [U.N.] International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala,” (Jan. 25, 2016).

Neier, Aryeh. “Guatemala: Will Justice Be Done.” New York Review of Books (June 20, 2013).

Open Society Justice Initiative
   A Comprehensive web site on the Trial of Efraim Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Guatemala).

Uzbekistan

Economist magazine: Topics Index: Uzbekistan. See, e.g.,
    “Intimations of Mortality: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan,” April 6, 2013.
    “Elections in Central Asia: No Choice,” April 4, 2015.

The New York Times: World: Times Topics: Uzbekistan.

International Press Institute
   Burkhardt, Paul. “Silencing the Press in Uzbekistan,” IPI Global Journalist, 3rd Quarter, 2005.

Human Rights Watch: World Report 2015: Uzbekistan.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
    “Uzbekistan’s Grounded Officials” (June 30, 2014)

Transparency International: Corruptions Perception Index: 2014.

The Washington Post
   “Uzbekistan Breaks Promise to End Child Labor in Cotton Fields” (Sept. 24, 2012).

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Uzbekistan).