Ch. 1. Colonial Heritage, 1352-1750. King Edward III's treason law (1352) Declaration which offenses shall be adjudged treason ; Authority to subjugate America's natives (1496) Letters patent of Henry VII to John Cabot ; "all Liberties, Franchises and Immunities" (1606) First charter of Virginia ; "combine ourselves together into a civil body politick" (1620) The Mayflower Compact ; We now have just cause to destroy them by all means (1622) Massacre upon the two and twentieth of March ; "to be drawn and hanged" (1630) Judicial proceedings of the Governor and Council of Virginia ; "Subversion of our fundamental frame" (1636) Capital laws of New Plimouth ; "to come adhere or confederate with the Indians (1638) Act for treasons [Maryland] ; Memory of Charles I in Virginia (1649) Act of a grand assembly ; Popular agitation in Virginia (1653) Laws of Virginia ; "subversion of the frame of policy" (1656) Capital laws of New Haven ; "rebelliously returning" (1660) Second sentence of Mary Dyer ; "illegal and clandestine purchases" (1663) Rhode Island Indian land purchases ; Beginnings of Black bondage (1664) Act concerning Negroes and other slaves [Maryland] ; Native Americans as rebels (1665) Act concerning Indians [Virginia] ; Removing "the guilt of blood from the land" (1672) Act for the well ordering of the Indians [Connecticut] ; Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion (1676-1677) Acts against wicked and desolute persons [Virginia] , Act of attainder , Act for the reliefe of loyall persons ; "seduced from their allegiance" (1680) Act of free and generall pardon, indennitie and oblivion [Virginia] ; "not to devour and destroy one another" (1681) William Penn's letter to the native Americans of Pennsylvania ; Tobacco treason (1684) Act for the better preservation of the peace of Virginia ; "against the traffic of men-body" (1688) Resolution of the Germantown, Pennsylvania, Mennonites ; No appearance of any domestic rebellion (1691) Act for the disabling of persons that did set up martial law [South Carolina] ; "burned with a hot iron on the most visible part of the left cheek" (1704) Act for regulating Negro, Indian, and Mulatto slaves in New Jersey ; "a convenient dwelling place in this their native country" (1704) Act for ascertaining the bounds of the land of the Nanticoke Indians [Maryland] ; Sunday arrests for treason (1705) Act prescribing the method of appointing sherriffs [Virginia] ; Any person may be outlawed and thereby attainted (1712) Act regulating trials in cases of treason [South Carolina] ; To acquaint Indians with the laws of government (1717) Act for the more effectual well ordering of the Indians [Connecticut] ; "publishing a false, scandalous, and seditious libel" (1735) Trial of John Peter Zenger [New York] ; "A riot, and insult upon the King's government" (1747) Letter by Governor William Shirley to the lords of trade regarding the Knowles riot ; "punishing their secret plots and dangerous combinations" (1748) Act directing the trial of slaves committing capital crimes and punishing insurrections [Virginia] ; "Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief" (1750) Jonathan Mayhew's discourse concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers -- Ch. 2. Revolutionary War, 1765-1781. "We can no longer forbear" (1765) Instructions of the Town of Braintree ; " 'you shall die then' " (1766) New York agrarian rebellion ; "The alarming cries of the oppressed" (1769) Petition of the inhabitants of Anson County, North Carolina ; "I heard the word 'fire' " (1770) The horrid massacre in Boston ; "enemy to the liberties of America" (1773-1774) The Boston Tea Party and its aftermath , Sons of Liberty resolutions on tea , Administration of Justice Act ; "our lawful and rightful sovereign" (1774) Instructions by the Virginia convention to their delegates in congress ; "whereas hostilities have actually been commenced" (1775) Articles of war for the continental army ; "We have pursued every temperate, every respectful measure" (1775) Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms ; "misled by dangerous and ill designing men" (1775) Proclamation by the King for suppressing rebellion and sedition ; Amendments to the articles of war (1775) Additions and alterations to the rules of the continental army ; "Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant" (1776) Common sense ; "required to take the following oath" (1776) Resolution of the provincial council of North Carolina ; "all persons abiding within any of the united colonies" (1776) Resolution on spies ; "the right of the people to alter or to abolish" forms of government (1776) Declaration of Independence ; Revolution in literature (1776-1777) Loyalists and patriots , Congress , Antidote against Toryism ; "dark and criminal designs of enslaving America" (1777) Act to punish certain crimes and prevent the growth of Toryism [Maryland] ; "Dangers which may arise from persons disaffected to the state" (1777-1780) All persons accused of treason , Act declaring what crimes shall be treason [North Carolina] , Act for the speedy trial of all persons accused of treason [North Carolina] ; To invite tribes to form a state (1778) United States treaty with the Delawares ; Treason of Malin (1778) Respublica v. Malin ; Execution of Abraham Carlisle (1778) Respublica v. Carlisle ; Treason of Benedict Arnold (1780) Corespondence of Washington ; Sentence to be served on a ship of war (1781) Act more effectually to punish adherence to the King [New York] -- Ch. 3. Dawn of the Republic, 1785-1815. "restore all prisoners taken" (1785) United States treaty with the Cherokees ; Shay's rebellion (1786) Communications regarding the insurrection , Address to the people of the County of Hampshire [Massachusetts] , To the printer of the Hampshire Herald ; Constitution and political crime (1787) United States Constitution ; "a general constitution, in subversion of that of the state" (1787) Letter from Robert Yates and John Lansing to the governor of New York ; "to put to death or capture the said Indians" (1787) Act for suppressing the violences of the Indians ; United States treason statute (1787) Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States ; Bill of Rights (1791) United States Constitution, Amendments I-X ; Fugitives from law and from slavery (1793) Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters ; Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794) United States v. Insurgents ; "combinations to defeat the execution of the laws" (1794) Proclamations of President Washington on the Whiskey Rebellion , August 7, 1794 , September 25, 1794 ; Treasons of Mitchell and Vigol (1795) A madman and a moron , United States v. Mitchell , United States v. Vigol ; "a full, free and entire pardon" (1795) Washington's Presidential Proclamation (July 10, 1795) ; "the doctrine of nonresistance is...slavish" (1797) New Hampshire Constitution, Article X ; "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" (1798) Alien and Sedition Laws , Act concerning aliens , Act respecting alien enemies , act for the punishment of certain crimes ; "blush and weep over our sedition law" (1798) Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor ; "ridicuous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice" (1798) Lyon's case ; "no rampart now remains against the passions and the power of a majority of Congress" (1798) Resolution of the Kentucky legislature ; Appeals to the federal judiciary─No suits against one of the states (1798) United States Constitution, Amendment XI ; John Fries' rebellion (1799-1800) Proclamations of President John Adams , March 12, 1799 , May 21, 1800 ; Greatest crime that any man can commit (1800) Case of Fries ; How should the Pennsylvania insurgents be treated? (1800) The offender, the President, and the cabinet , Petition of John Fries , To the heads of departments , Heads of departments to the president ; "lose the respect both of friends and foes" (1800) Letter from ALexander Hamilton opposing the Fries pardon ; "to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety" (1801) First inaugural address by Thomas Jefferson ; Not acting under the government's secret patronage (1807) Jefferson's message on the Burr conspiracy ; "conspiracy is not treason" (1807) Ex parte Bollman and Swartwout ; "obviously a miltary enterprise" (1807) United States v. Burr (April 1807) ; Marshall meets Burr in the courtroom a second time (1807) United States v. Burr (October 1807) ; Protecting America's neutrality (1809) Non-intercourse acts ; Winds of secession (1815) Report and resolutions of the Hartford Convention ; I humbled the insurgents at a trifling expense (1815) Letter from John Adams to James Lloyd --

Ch. 4. Consolidation and Schism: Suffrage, Citizenship, and the Right of Secession, 1821-1861. Bowing before "the idol of universal suffrage" (1821) Remarks of Chancellor Kent to the New York Constitutional Convention ; Crime of being Black (1823) Elkinson v. Deliesseline ; "the Indians...have retained their savage habits" (1829) Message from President Jackson on Indian removal ; School-houses as unlawful assembly (1831) Act prohibiting education of free Negroes and mulattoes [Virginia] ; Motives of the "late insurrection" (1831) Nat Turner's confession ; "to annihilate the Cherokee as a political society" (1831) Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ; "I will not retreat a single inch" (1831) The liberator ; Independent political communities (1832) Worcester v. Georgia ; Nullifying laws of South Carolina (1832) Proclamation by President Andrew Jackson ; "Slavery is contrary to the principles of natural justice (1833) Documents of the American Anti-Slavery Society , Constitution , Declaration of Sentiments ; Reward for laying violent hands (1835) Thompson, the abolitionist ; Removal of the "aboriginal people" (1835) A home in a country selected by their forefathers , President Jackson's seventh annual message on Indian removal , Treaty of New Echota with the Cherokees ; "acts and doings of certain fanatics (1835-1836) Opposition to abolition societies , South Carolina resolutions on abolition societies , Act to suppress incendiary publications [Virginia] ; Twenty journeymen tailors (1836) They formed themselves into a society , People v. Faulkner [New York] , Commonwealth v. Hunt [Massachusetts] ; "the encroachments of military despots (1836) Texas declaration of independence ; "prompted by the pure spirit of christianity (1837) State v. M'Donald [Alabama] ; Incendiary petition to Congress (1839) Commonwealth v. Barrett [Virginia] ; "the dreadful acts by which they asserted their liberty" (1841) United States v. Amistad ; Recognition of political crime (1843) Convention between the United States and the king of the French ; "No union with slaveholders" (1844) Can abolitionists vote or take office under the Constitution? ; Franchise for men of color (1846) New York Constitution of 1846 ; Maintaining that "owners have not right of property in their slaves" (1848) Virginia slavery law ; "that all men and women are created equal" (1848) Declaration of the first women's rights convention ; Rhode Island's Dorr Rebellion (1849) Luther v. Borden ; "appeals to passion, and denunciations of the law" (1851) Charge to the grand jury-treason [Pennsylvania] ; Teaching colored children to read (1953) Sentencing of Mrs. Margaret Douglas ; Cutting the iron chain or collar of any runaway slave (1856) Louisiana Black Code ; "executors of the will of the majority of our citizens (1856) Constitution of the committee of vigilantes of San Francisco ; "a subordinate and inferior class of beings" (1857) Dred Scott v. Sanford ; "threats of assassination" (1858) President Buchanan's proclamation on the rebellion in Utah ; John Brown's Constitution (1858) Provisional Constitution for the people of the United States ; "guilty of a great wrong against God and humanity" (1859) John Brown's interview with southern leaders ; "remember them that are in bonds (1859) John Brown's last speech to the court ; On the right of secession (1860) Resolutions on secession , Floyd County, Georgia , South Carolina declaration of causes of secession ; New York as a free city (1861) Mayor Wood's recommendation for the secession of New York City -- Ch. 5. Civil War, 1861-1870. "the inviolability of the sovereign power" (1861) Charge to the grand jury-treason [Massachusetts] ; "affording aid and comfort to rebels" (1861-1864) President Lincoln's correspondence and proclamations suspending habeus corpus , April 27, 1861 , June 20, 1861 , September 24, 1862 , September 15, 1863 , July 5, 1864 ; "regal and absolute power" (1861) Ex parte Merryman ; "to resist force...by force" (1861) Lincoln's message to congress ; "a government that thus tramples on all principles of constitutional liberty" (1861) Jefferson Davis's message to the provisional congress ; "to overthrow...by force, the government of the United States" (1861) Conspiracies Act ; "aiding...insurrection or resistance to the laws" (1861) Act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes ; "furthering the work of disunion" (1862) Lincoln's executive order number one relating to political prisoners ; "denying our right to self-government" (1862) Jefferson Davis's inaugural address ; Freeing the slaves of those committing treason , Act to suppress insurrection and confiscate the property of rebels ; "no service can be more praiseworthy or honorable" (1863) Resistance to military conscription , Act for enrolling an calling out the national forces , Troops attacked by armed mob ; "Treating captured rebels as prisoners of war" (1863) Instructions for the government of armies of the United States inthe field ; "that he has never given any aid or comfort to the present rebellion" (1863) Act to provide for the collection of abandoned property ; "too few arrests rather than too many" (1863) Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and others ; Enemies or traitors (1863) United States v. Greathouse ; "They were terribly mutilated" (1864) Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians ; "[I] have never hated nor wronged any one" (1864-1865) Writings of John Wilkes Booth , Letter to the Philadelphia Enquirer , Booth's diary ; "The civil tribunals...can not rightfully interfere with the military" (1865) Opinion on the constitutional power of the military by Attorney General James Speed ; "The relation of husband and wife amongst persons of color" (1865) Southern Black codes , South Carolina Black Code , Black Code of Louisiana , Black Code of Mississippi ; "the late wicked rebellion" (1866) Ex parte Milligan ; "any office of honor, trust, or profit" (1867) The loyalty oath cases , Cummings v. Missouri , Ex parte Garland ; "until loyal and republican state governments can be legally established" (1867) Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states ; The caged eagle (1867-1871) On behalf of Jefferson Davis-seeking bail or parole ; "who...shall have engaged in insurrection (1868) United States Constitution, Amendment XIV ; "unconditionally, and without reservation,...a full pardon" (1868) President Andrew Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation ; "are you opposed to negro equality, both social and political?" (1868) The secret organizations of the reconstruction , Organization and principles of the Ku Klux Klan , Charge to initiates of the Knights of the White Camelia ; "citizens...of every race and color" (1866-1875) The Civil Rights Acts , Civil Rights Act of 1866 , Civil Rights Act of 1870 (Enforcement Act) , Civil Rights Act of 1871 , Civil Rights Act of 1875 ; Rebel property and due process (1870) Miller v. United States --

Ch. 6. Social and Industrial Stress: The Struggles of Native Americans, Women, and Labor, 1871-1916. "no Indian nation...shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation" (1871) Act making appropriation for the Indian Department ; "grudging obedience to the most reasonable requirements of the government" (1872) Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs ; "The paramount destiny and mission of woman..." (1872) Bradwell v. Illinois ; Defendant is indicted for having voted (1873) United States v. Anthony ; "The court orders the prisoner to sit down" (1873) Susan B. Anthony's statement to the court ; "The government of the Confederate states...had no existence" (1874) Sprott v. United States ; "all citizens...were not invested with the right of suffrage" (1874) Minor v. Happersett ; "the rights of one citizen as against another" (1876) United States v. Cruikshank ; Rifle clubs (1876) Grant's proclamation of insurrection in South Carolina ; "insurrectionary forces too powerful to be resisted" (1877) Abdication of Governor D.H. Chamberlain , Letter from the heads of departments ; Correspondence between the governors ; Chamberlain's abdication address ; To secure to the toilers a proper share of the wealth (1878) Constitution of the Knights of Labor: Preamble ; "a removal and not an assassination" (1881) The account of Garfield's assassin ; "to solve the Indian problem" (1881) President Arthur's first annual message ; The fire of the mob (1884) The Cincinnati riot ; To be "let out of the state of pupilage" (1884) Elk v. Wilkins ; "Revenge! Workingmen! To arms!" (1886) The Haymarket conspiracy , The Spies circular , Merritt conspiracy act ; "even though you erect a gibbet on every street corner" (1886) Speeches of Michael Schwab and August Spies before the court ; The Indian soil is under United States political control (1886) United States v. Kagama ; "rights, privileges, and immunities" (1887) Act to provide for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians (Dawes Act) ; "combination...in restraint of trade (1890) Sherman anti-trust act ; "The President of the United States of America to Eugene V. Debs" (1894) Debs's rebellion , In re Debs injunction , United States v. Debs ; "keeping those highways of interstate commerce free from obstruction" (1894) In re Debs ; "this raid was part of 'a political movement' " (1896) Ornelas v. Ruiz ; "an invention of the devil" (1898) Clarence Darrow's argument to the jury in the Kidd case ; To establish "white supremacy" (1898) The Wilmington rebellion ; "a lifetime in the handling of dynamite" (1899-1900) ; Coeur D'Alene labor troubles report ; "that organized government should be overthrown" (1902) New York criminal anarchy law ; "person(s)...opposed to all organized government" (1903) Immigration Act of 1903 ; "undesirable additions to our population" (1904) Turner v. Williams ; The assassination of Governor Steunenberg (1905) The defense summation in the trial of William D. "Big Bill" Haywood ; Mother Earth (1906) The psychology of political violence (Emma Goldman) ; "desperate men are now securing dynamite" (1907) Correspondence between Nevada governor John Sparks and President Theodore Roosevelt ; Triple damages and the Danbury hatters union (1908) Loewe v. Lawlor ; Liability for imposing martial law (1909) Moyer v. Peabody ; "an instrument of tyranny" (1909) President Taft's inaugural address: the use of injunctions in labor disputes ; "unlawful obstructions" (1914) President Wilson and the labor wars , Suppressing insurrection in Colorado , Dispersion of unlawful assemblages in Arkansas ; "the labor of a human being is not a commodity" (1914) Clayton anti-trust act ; The execution of Joe Hill (1915) State v. Hillstrom ; This struggle will go on (1915) William Haywood: testimony before the Industrial Relations Committee ; "use a little direct action" (1916, 1918, 1927-1930) The San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing and the Mooney case , An anonymous warning , Excerpts from the police interrogation of Tom Mooney , Reports of President Wilson's Mediation Commission , Excerpts of letters to California governor Clement C. Young opposing proposed pardon for Tom Mooney -- Ch. 7. World War I and the Rise of Totalitarianism, 1917-1940. How long must women wait for liberty? (1917) Militant suffragists picket President Wilson ; Suffragists as political prisoners (1917) Suffragists, letters from prison ; "war is wrong" (1917) Statement to my people on the eve of war (John Haynes Holmes) ; "Extreme penalty for traitors (1917) Atlanta prison (Ammon Hennacy) ; "false reports or false statements" (1917) Espionage Act ; "I do not believe that I am seeking martyrdom" (1917-1918) Statements of conscientious objection , Carl Haessler , Maurice Hess , Roger N. Baldwin ; "any profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government" (1918) Espionage Act (as amended) ; "any unlawful method of terrorism" (1919) California Criminal Syndacalism Law ; "an aid ot propaganda" (1919) California Red Flag Law ; "falsely shouting fire" (1919) Schenck v. United States ; "There can be no peace" (1919) Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World ; The "cowardly silence about the intervention in Russia" (1919) Abrams v. United States ; "using the bullet, the assassin's dagger, the torch, or the bomb" (1919) Remarks of Representative Monahan on the seating of Victor L. Berger ; "Let our people go" (1920) United States v. Steene ; "There was no disorder save that of the raiders" (1920) Ex parte Jackson ; "make America safe for democracy first" (1920) Gilbert v. Minnesota ; "a so-called political conscience" (1921) Respect for law ; "The civil functions and processes...will not be interfered with" (1921) Protection against domestic violence in West Virginia , President Harding's proclamation , Instructions to General H.H. Bandholtz ; "to foster a homogeneous people" (1923) Meyer v. Nebraska ; "The left wing manifesto" (1925) Gitlow v. New York ; Conduct of a nature to bring discredit uopn the military service (1925) Excerpts from the Billy Mitchell trial transcript ; No right to strike (1926) Dorchy v. Kansas ; "fight...for your rights" (1926) The final arguments in the Sweet murder trial ; Revolutionary class struggle (1927) Whitney v. California ; "violence...impelled by persecution and self-defense" (1923-1927) Bartolomeo Vanzetti's ideology , Vanzetti's letters , Vanzetti's last statement in court ; " 'peaceful and orderly opposition to government' " (1931) Stromberg v. California ; "jurisdiction to issue a restraining order" (1932) Norris-La Guardia Act ; "Government cannot be coerced by mob rule" (1932) The Bonus Army March on Washington , President Hoover's letter to Commissioner Reichelderfer , President Hoover's press conference (July 20, 1932) ; "oil and gas producers...in a state of insurrection" (1932) Sterling v. Constantin ; "The San Francisco débacle (1934) The revolutionary logic of the general strike ; "the right to organize for its common welfare" (1934) Indian Reorganization Act ; "strikes and other forms of industrial strife" (1935) National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) ; "combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state" (1936) Herndon v. Lowry ; " 'mob or riotous assemblage' " (1937) Gavagan Antilynching Bill ; "Obeying the rules" (1937) Sit down ; Peaceful assembly cannot be made a crime (1937) De Jonge v. Oregon ; "the prohibition of the export of arms" (1937) Neutrality Act ; "smashing...strike demonstrators" (1937) Memorial Day Massacre ; "cruel and inhuman punishment" (1938) United States ex rel. Weinberg v. Scholtfeldt ; Those inherent and fundamental rights that distinguish this country from all foreign nations (1938-1940) The Dies Committee on Un-American Activities , Debate on H.R. Res. No. 282 (1938) , H.R. Rep. No. 1476 (1940) --

Ch. 8. World War II Era, 1939-1946. "the overthrow of our constitutional form of government" (1939) Act to prevent pernicious political activities (Hatch Act) ; To "teach the...propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force" (1940) Act to prohibit certain subversive activities (Smith Act) ; "All alien enemies are enjoined to preserve the peace" (1941) President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation ; "every possible protection" (1942) President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 ; "offenders against the law of war" (1942) Ex parte Quirin ; Any act prescribed by the military commander (1942) Act to provide a penalty for violation of restrictions ; "An armed force which lacks loyalty, morale or discipline" (1943) Dunne v. United States ; Compulsory national unity (1943) Board of Education v. Barnette ; "there has been relatively little social intercourse" (1943) Hirabayashi v. United States ; "a fascist form of government should be established in the United States" (1943) United States v. McWilliams ; "imprisonment...in a concentration camp because of racial prejudice" (1944) Korematsu v. United States ; "a dangerously disorderly migration" (1944) Ex parte Endo ; A failure of good moral character (1945) In re Summers ; Exclusion of named employees (1945) United States v. Lovett ; " 'He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression' " (1945) Cramer v. United States ; "the military authorities took over the government of Hawaii" (1946) Duncan v. Kahanamoku ; "an uninterrupted record of economic aggression" (1946) The trial of Ezra Pound , Radio broadcast , Indictment , Letter of examining psychiatrists , Transcript of hearing , New York Herald Tribune account ; "a thoroughgoing Nazi" (1946) Knauer v. United States

Ch. 9. Cold War and the Battle against Subversion, 1947-1967. "complete and unswerving loyalty" (1947) President Truman's Executive Order 9835 on employees' loyalty program ; "It shall be unlawful for any individual employed by the United States...to participate in any strike" (1947) Taft-Hartley Act ; "termination [is] necessary or advisable in the interest of the national security" (1950) Act to protect the national security of the United States ; Whatever is authorized by Congress for an alien is due process (1950) Knauff v. Shaughnessy ; Removing from power those who would abuse it (1950) American Communications Association v. Douds ; "There exists a world Communist movement" (1950) Internal Security Act (McCarran Act) ; "Let us not...throw away the ideals which are the fundamental basis of our free society" (1950) Truman's veto of the McCarran Act ; "Anything that I had done [was] for the cause of liberty" (9150) Assassination attempt on Harry S. Truman ; Classes of aliens excluded (1950) Internal Security Act of 1950 ; "overthrow the government 'as speedily as circumstances would permit' " (1951) Dennis v. United States ; "a general regulation which merely provides standards of qualification...for employment" (1951) Garner v. Los Angeles Board ; "they had only the best of motives" (1952) United States v. Rosenberg ; "fitness to maintain the integrity of the schools" (1952) Adler v. Board of Education ; The fact of membership alone cannot disqualify (1952) Wieman v. Updegraff ; "he is treated as if stopped at the border" (1953) Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei ; "all persons privileged to be employed [by]...the government" (1953) President Eisenhower's security requirements for government employment ; To outlaw the Communist Party (1954) Communist Control Act of 1954 ; Potential threats to the machinery of government (1954) Nelson v. Wyman ; "My life I give for the freedom of my country" (1954) Lolita Lebron letter ; "a follower of the Communist line" (1955) United States v. Lattimore ; "the so-called 'sensitive' agencies" (1956) Cole v. Young ; "insurrection in any state against its government...or rebellion against the authority of the United States" (1956) Militia Act ; "summary dismissal...violates due process" (1956) Slochower v. United States ; "making his private life a matter of public record" (1957) Sweezy v. New Hampshire ; "advocacy and teaching of forcible overthrow as an abstract principle" (1957) Yates v. United States ; "one who has given his loyalties to [the Communist Party]...during a period of responsible adulthood" (1957) Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners ; Incompetency for refusal to refute information (1958) Beilan v. Board of Public Education ; "The right to travel is a part of...'liberty' " (1958) Kent v. Dulles ; "the...burden of bringing forth proof of nonadvocacy" (1958) Speiser v. Randall ; "war against the Constitution" (1958) Cooper v. Aaron ; "whether your name has been linked" (1959) Armed Forces security questionnaire ; Communists, murderers, arsonists, and rapists (1959) Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act ; "the names of all persons who attended the camp" (1959) Uphaus v. Wyman ; " 'Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?' " (1959) Barenblatt v. United States ; "employee insubordination" (1960) Nelson v. Los Angeles ; "questions having a substantial relevance to his qualifications" (1961) Konigsberg v. State Bar of California ; The great ends of the First Amendment (1961) Communist Party of the United States v. Subversive Activities Control Board ; "membership, when it constitutes a purposeful form of complicity" (1961) Scales v. United States ; "[an] overriding and compelling state interest" (1963) Gibson v. Florida ; " 'by...example promote respect for the flag' " (1964) Baggett v. Bullitt ; Travel is a constitutional liberty (1964) Aptheker v. Secretary of State ; "the weightiest considerations of national security" (1965) Zemel v. Rusk ; "The risks of incrimination...are obvious" (1965) Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board ; The prevention of political strikes (1965) United States v. Brown ; Textbooks, lobbyists, and summer camps (1965) State laws for the control of subversion and subversives ; "a list of all printing presses...owned" (1967) Communist Party of the United States v. United States ; "the phrase 'war power' cannot be invoked as a talismanic incantation" (1967) United States v. Robel ; "An attempt to overthrow the government of Kentucky" (1967) McSurely v. Ratliff

Ch. 10. Age of Protest: Civil Rights, Student, Urban, and Vietnam War Protests, 1961-1976. Who's been trying to register our niggers? (1961) Mississippi violence and intimidation , Chronology , Statement from Burgland High Scholl students , P.T.A. requests readmittance of students , statement by a student , Robert Moses, message from jail ; State officials unlawfully obstructing the laws of the United States (1962) President Kennedy and the Mississippi insurrection , Proclamation No. 3497 , Executive Order No. 11053 ; "creative tension" (1963) Letter from Birmingham City Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr.) ; "to fight back in self-defense" (1964) A declaration of independence (Malcolm X) ; "His urge to try to find a place in history...His avowed commitment to Marxism and communism, as he understood the terms" (1964) The Warren Commission's conclusions ; "American society...is simply no longer exciting" (1964-1965) Student protest , An end to history (Mario Savio) , Berkeley: what it demonstrates (Larry D. Spence) ; "fellow revolutionaries" (1965) President Lyndon B. Johnson's address to demonstators ; "Whoever kills any individual who is the President of the United States" (1965) Presidential assassination, kidnaping, and assault ; Opposition to the war from "a merely personal moral code" (1965) United States v. Seeger ; "a higher standard of loyalty" (1966) Bond v. Floyd ; "to reduce them under absolute despotism" (1966) Black Panther Party platform and program ; "no man can judge in his own case...however righteous his motives" (1967-1969) The Birmingham protest cases , Walker v. Birmingham , Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham ; The voice of the "Silent Majority" (197-1971) Writings of Spiro T. Agnew , There are proper ways to protest , The age of the gross , The root causes of Attica ; " 'It is not a constitutional principle that...the police must proceed against the crowd' " (1968) The crime of Dick Gregory , City of Chicago v. Gregory , Gregory v. City of Chicago ; He burned the certificate publicly to influence others (1968) United States v. O'Brien ; "conduct of a local board that is basically lawless" (1968) Oestereich v. Selective Service System ; Interstate rioting (1968) Riots (the "Rap" Brown Law) ; "in direct line with American democratic tradition" (1968) Excerpts from the trial of the Catonsville Nine ; "a lawful attempt to make a citizen's arrest" (1968) The trial of Reies Lopez Tijerina ;

"A declaration of war" (1968) From Sirhan Sirhan's notebook ; "Toleration of such conduct would not be democratic...but inevitably anarchic" (1969) United States v. Moylan ; "the word 'revolution' can[not] be avoided" (1969) Philip Berrigan, a priest in the resistance ; "violence has been one response offered to many...controversial issues" (1969) Assassinations and political violence , Deadly attacks upon public office-holders , The psychology of presidential assassins ; "the urgency of preparing for militant, armed struggle now" (1969) You do need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows ; "the likelihood of crime by concerted action" (1969) United States v. Spock ; A Ku Klux Klan rally: lawless action? (1969) Brandenburg v. Ohio ; "to turn American classrooms into political forums" (1970) The ultra-resistance (Francine du Plessix Gray) ; "we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy" (1970) Communiqués from the Weatherman Underground , Communiqué 1: A declaration of a state of war , Communiqué 2: Damage and injuries at this time─details later , Communiqué 3: Letter from the Underground , Communiqué 4: We are outlaws, we are free! ; "sabotage, jam the computer" (1970) Letter from Timothy Leary ; "the military error" (1970) New morning─changing weather: A declaration by Bernadine Dohrn and the Weather Underground ; "this country is getting tired of student demonstrations" (1970) A doctor's letter to his son ; To defend and enforce the rights of inhabitants (1970) Act defining the rights of inhabitants inducted or serving in the military forces of the United States [Massachusetts] ; "the state may constitutionally enjoin picketing" (1971) United Farm Workers Organizing Committee v. Superior Court ; "public employees as being in a different category" (1971) United Federation of Postal Clerks v.Blount ; "compounding [the government's] original violation of her privacy" (1971) In re Egan ; "seizing the bodies of those [who] stand in the way of restoring peace" (1971) Valdez v. Black ; Arrest and detention as a material witness (1971) In re Bacon ; "he embraced the principles of pacifism and nonviolence" (1971) United States v/. Kroncke ; Voice of resistance (1971) Political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation (Angela Davis) ; "jurors often reach 'conscience' verdicts" (1972) United States v. Simpson ; "Despite the fact that news gathering may be hampered" (1972) United States v. Caldwell ; "I am a Hamlet" (1972) From Arthur Bremer's diary ; "police aggression and excessive force" (1972) United States v. Dellinger ; Whether war crimes were being committed in Vietnam (1974) Levy v. Parker , The United States Court of Appeals , The United States Supreme Court ; "[our duty] is to see that the waters of justice are not polluted" (1974) United States v. Banks , 383 F.Supp. 368 (D.S.D. 1974) , 383 F.Supp. 389 (D.S.D. 1974) ; "the United States flag sewn to the seat of his trousers" (1974) Smith v. Grogan ; "the difference between a criminal act and a revolutionary act is shown by what the money is used for" (1974) Communiqués from the Symbionese Liberation Army , The goals of the Symbionese Liberation Army , Communiqué 3 , Communiqué 4 , Communiqué 5 , Communiqué of April 18, 1974 ; "national commitment to justice and mercy" (1974, 1977) Presidential clemency programs for Vietnam draft evaders and military deserters , Presidential Proclamation No. 4313 , Presidential Proclamation No. 4483 ; "to forge reconciliation" (1975) Executive clemency in American history ; "this entire nation has long recognized the outstanding virtues of courage, patriotism, and selfless devotion to duty" (1975) To restore full rights of citizenship to General R.E. Lee ; "be harmonious while struggling" (1976) Uniting the personal and the political (Jerry Rubin)

Ch. 11. Contemporary Political Conflicts and Domestic Security, 1948-1985. "Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information" (1948) Espionage law ; "we will meet the dangers that confront us" (1950) President Truman's declaration of a national emergency ; "Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates...to an unauthorized person" (1951) Disclosure of classified information ; "until six months after the termination of the national emergency" (1953) Temporary extension of ɞ 798 ; "Whoever...willfully uses any part of the army" (1956) Posse Comitatus Act ; "extensive wiretapping carried on without legal sanctions" (1968) Interception of wire or oral communications ; "domestic security surveillance involves different considerations from the surveillance of 'ordinary crime' " (1972) United States v. United States District Court ; " 'I do solemnly swear...that I will uphold and defend the Constitution' " (1972) Cole v. Richardson ; "military intrusion into civilian affairs" (1972) Laird v. Tatum ; "whenever...American citizens wish to meet and talk with an alien" (1972) Kleindeinst v. Mandel ; "states of national emergency" (1973) Emergency power statutes: extraordinary executive authority ; "to gather political information" (1975) United States v. Barker ; "a continuing study of dissident activity" (1975) CIA surveillance of domestic dissidents ; "[to] protect intelligence sources, methods, and analytical procedures" (1978) The United States' foreign intelligence activities ; "Notwithstanding any other law" (1978) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ; " 'different rules of constitutional law' " (1978) Church of Scientology of California v. Simon ; "the right to exercise exclusive jurisdiction within [the] Indian territory" (1979) Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act ; "citizens...in open defiance" (1979) United States v. Edelson ; Proletarian revolution requires the armed seizure of power (1980) Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States ; "the barbed-wire enclosure" (1980) Testimony regarding the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Act , Statement by Senator Spark Matsunaga , Statement by Hiroko Kamikawa Omata , Statement by Jerry J. Enomoto for the Japanese American Citizens League ; "no governmental interest is more compelling than the security of the nation" (1981) Haig v. Agee ; "resistance against a plan to force nuclear power upon the American people" (1981) San Luis Obispo calls for Diablo blockade ; Radicalizing public opinion (1981) Dynamics of non-violence ; "Shut down Selective Service" (1982) Affirm life-resist war , A call to resistance , Draft protest results in sixty arrests ; " 'there's a victory whenever you follow your conscience' " (1982) The sentencing of draft registration resister Enten Eller , College senior placed on probation in draft case , Draft registration resister given alternative sentence ; "the 'political demonstrators' and the 'opportunists' " (1982) Just hell-bent on crime , Klan foes rampage, loot, battle police , Crowd turns confrontational , Police stunned by crowd violence ; " 'They have chosen to be lawbreakers' " (1983) State-church showdown , Jailings in Nebraska , Fight to keep open church school ; " 'God is great. God is good' " (1984) Prayer in many schoolrooms continues ; To provide redress for victims (1984) Hobson v. Wilson ; " 'intent to do something wrong clearly is not there' " (1984-1985) Americans protesting South Africa's apartheid , Charges in embassy sit-in dropped , First senator held in embassy protest ; No choice but to trespass (1984) Protesters' unusual defense ends in victory ; Religious fervor and political naïveté (1984-1985) God v. Caesar: the issue of abortion , Antiabortionists share religious fervor, political naïveté , Abortion clinic bombings , Pro-life terrorism subverts own goal ; " 'the United States government has been breaking the law' " (1985) Political refugees or economic migrants? Activists vow to continue , Not guilty to smuggling aliens ; The unconstitutional enforcement of draft registration (1985) Wayte v. United States

Ch. 12. International Terrorism and Human Rights, 1961-1985.

"aircraft piracy" (1961) Amendments to the Federal Aviation Act ; Acts which jeopardize the safety of aircraft or persons (1963) Tokyo Convention ; "fear of being persecuted" (1968) United Nations convention relating to the status of refugees ; Acts which "undermine the confidence of the peoples of the world in the safety of civil aviation" (1970) The Hague Convention ; "for the purpose of deterring such acts" (1971) Montreal Convention ; "acts of terrorism" (1971) Convention of the Organization of American States ; Interference with the conduct of foreign affairs (1972) Act for the protection of foreign officials and official guests of the United States ; "crimes against diplomatic agents" (1973) United Nations convention on crimes against internationally protected persons ; Sanctuaries for terrorists quarantined (1974) Antihijacking Act ; "Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms" (1975) Helsinki Accord ; "internationally protected persons" (1976) Act for the prevention and punishment of crimes against internationally protected persons ; Prohibition of assistance (1976-1977) Amendments to the foreign assistance and foreign military sales act , Amendment of 1976 , Amendment of 1977 ; "In no case shall capital punishment be inflicted for political offenses" (1977) Organization of the American States convention on human rights ; International terrorism, 1968-1978 (1979) A research paper of the National Foreign Assessment Center ; " 'assisted the enemy in persecuting civil[ians]' " (1981) Fedorenko v. United States ; Random and indiscriminate violence (1981) Eain v. Wilkes ; Seeking political asylum (1982) Haitian Refugee Center v. Smith ; "warrantless electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency" (1982) Jabara v. Webster ; "neither claimed nor shown to have any mercenary motive" (1983) United States v. Ivic ; "causing evacuation of a building" (1978-1983) Domestic antiterrorist legislation , Terrorist-specific legislation , Terrorism-incorporated legislation ; "if patriotic sacrifices [make] a terrorist, 'then I'm the greatest terrorist in the world' " (1984) Judge sentences Omega 7 leader to life in prison ; State terrorism accounts for murders and assassinations (1984-1985) Recent United States legislation to combat international terrorism , A time of remembrance , 1984 act to combat international terrorism , International terrorism and foreign airport security (1985).