Study 1
Understanding Democracy: A Hip
Pocket Guide, page 45
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Do
wnloads/ACBooks/Understanding%20De
mocracy/Understanding%20Democracy.
pdf
• U.S. Constitution, Article III
http://www.justicelearning.org//justic
e_timeline/Articles.aspx?id=4
• Pages 1-8 from the “2007 Year End
Report on the Federal Judiciary (Chief
Justice’s Year End Reports on the
Federal Judiciary)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publici
nfo/year-end/2007year-endreport.pdf
• A History of Judicial Independence
http://www.uscourts.gov/outreach/reso
urces/judicialindependence/history.html
• The Pursuit of Justice, Epilogue: “We
are All Slaves of the Law”
http://sunnylandsclassroom.org/Downlo
ads/ACBooks/Pursuit%20of%20Justice/
Chapters/200-203_Epilogue.pdf
• Chief Justice Praises Judicial
Independence
http://www.uscourts.gov/newsroom/jud
icialindependence.html
Study 2
The Pursuit of Justice, Chapter 1: The
Rise of Judicial Review
http://sunnylandsclassroom.org/Dow
nloads/ACBooks/Pursuit%20of%20Ju
stice/Chapters/12-21_Ch.1.pdf
• Understanding Democracy: A Hip
Pocket Guide, pages 42-43, 45-51,
88-93
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Do
wnloads/ACBooks/Understanding%20De
mocracy/Understanding%20Democracy.
pdf
• U.S. Constitution, Article III
http://www.justicelearning.org//justice_
timeline/Articles.aspx?id=4
• Courts and the division of powers
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/As
set.aspx?Id=1323
• Americans Trust Courts but also
Believe them Biased, Surveys Find
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycente
r.org/NewsDetails.aspx?myId=13
• An Independent Judiciary
http://www.crfusa.
org/bria/bria14_2.html#an
Study 3
Understanding Democracy: A Hip
Pocket Guide, pages 42-43, 45-51,
88-93
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Do
wnloads/ACBooks/Understanding%20De
mocracy/Understanding%20Democracy.
pdf
• Our Constitution, Chapter 2: What
Kind of Government Did the
Constitution Create?
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Do
wnloads/ACBooks/Our%20Constitution/
Chapters/Chapter%202_Our%20Constit
ution.pdf
• The Role of the Courts in our System
of Checks and Balances
http://www.uscourts.gov/outreach/reso
urces/judicialindependence/checksandba
lances.html
• U.S. Constitution, Article III
http://www.justicelearning.org//justice_
timeline/Articles.aspx?id=4
Study 4
Our Constitution, Chapter 5: How is
the Constitution Interpreted?
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Do
wnloads/ACBooks/Our%20Constitution/
Chapters/Chapter%205_Our%20Constit
ution.pdf
• Pages 1-8 from the “2006 Year End
Report on the Federal Judiciary”
(Chief Justice’s Year End Reports on
the Federal Judiciary) written by Chief
Justice John Marshall
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publici
nfo/year-end/2006year-endreport.pdf
• Commentary by Sandra Day
O’Connor in the Wall Street Journal
“The Threat to Judicial Independence”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?i
d=110009019
• Justice for Sale
Frontline Interview: Justices Stephen
Breyer & Anthony Kennedy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontli
ne/shows/justice/interviews/supremo.ht
ml
• 2006 survey conducted for the
Annenberg Public Policy Center on the
election of judges
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycente
r.org/NewsDetails.aspx?myId=218
• 1998 survey conducted for American
Bar Association: Perceptions of the
U.S. Justice System
http://www.abanet.org/media/perceptio
n/perceptions.pdf