The Constitution of the United States http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/const.html The Bill of Rights (Amendments 1 to 10) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.html Other Amendments to the Constitution (Amendments 11 to 27) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/amend.html
The Alien Act (1798) Passage gave the federal goverment the right to detain or deport non-naturalized aliens. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/alien.htm The Sedition Act (1798) This act threatened legal action against any individual or organization that spoke or wrote against the government. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/sedact.htm Kentucky Resolution (1799) The state's protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kenres.htm Virginia Resolution (1798) The state's protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/virres.htm
President Abraham Lincoln's July 4, 1861 speech to Congress The president offers his justification for a supsension of habeas corpus. http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/lincoln.htm
Espionage Act (1917) http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/dye/docs/espion.htm Sedition Act (1918) http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/usspy.html
Executive Order 9066 Issued by President Franklin Roosvelt, the order empowered the military to exclude persons from "military exclusion areas." http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/executiorder9066.html Kiyoshi Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943) In upholding internment, the Supreme Court cites military necessity. http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/hirabayashi.html | ||||||