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http://www.cdt.org
For more information on the effect of new computer and communications technologies on the constitutional
rights and liberties of Americans, go to the Center of Democracy and Technology.
http://w3.trib.com/FACT/
A home page for the First Amendment, sponsored by the Casper, Wyoming, Star-Tribune, and winner of a national
award for best on-line newspaper services. Links to many resources on different issues involving the First
Amendment, including freedom of the press, Internet censorship, state freedom of information laws, and
others. Links to Supreme Court decisions and original documents.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/rfreedom.htm
A link to a variety of sources on freedom of religion, historical and contemporary, from the Christian
Research Institute to the American Secular Union.
http://www.aclu.org/index.html
The home page of the American Civil Liberties Union, a group organized to protect civil liberties through
legal and political action. Links to information and position papers on many issues covered in this chapter,
including church and state, reproductive rights, flag burning, free speech, gay rights, and many others.
http://www.naral.org and http://www.prolifeinfo.org/
The first site is the home page of the National Abortion Rights Action League, a pro-choice group, and
the second site is a link to pro-life groups. Each provides perspectives on the conflict over abortion
rights.
http://www.cdt.org/
For information on the effect of new computer and communications technologies on the constitutional rights
and liberties of Americans, go to the Center for Democracy and Technology.
http://www.lc.org
A group named the Liberty Counsel calls itself a "nonprofit religious civil liberties education and
legal defense organization established to preserve religious freedom."
http://oyez.nwu.edu
Summaries and the full text of constitutional law decisions by the United States Supreme Court are included
at the following site:
http://www.vote-smart.org/issues/
At Project Vote Smart’s Web site, you can find discussions of major issues, including those involving
civil liberties, abortion, and crime.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Read historic Supreme Court decisions.
http://www.ala.org/sitemap.html
The statement by the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee concerning the use
of filtering software and other issues relating to free speech on the Internet.
http://www.epic.org/privacy
You can find current information on privacy issues relating to the Internet at the Electronic Privacy
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