Individual Rights

Virgina Declaration of Rights

Bill of Rights

Amendments to the Constitution

Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen 1789

Substantive Due Process

 United Nations Treaty on Economic Rights 1966, ratified 1976

Pope John XXIII's Pacem in terris

Adler, Rights

Pennington, The History of Rights in Western Thought
Rights of Due Process:  The Individual and the State Federal Circuit Court of the District of Columbia Decision

Pennington, Presumption of Innocence

Mahler, Fear

In re Yamashita

Michael Scharf

 Lowry, Due Process Contra

Senator Jeff Bingaman Pro

Immigration and Due Process: American Bar Association,  Heather Mac Donald, Richard Freeman

Jefferson on Immigration

 

Economic Rights:  Rights of the Poor

Is Necessity the Answer?  Necessitas legem non habet (Necessity derogates law)

Southwark v. Williams (1971)

 Social Teachings of Papal Encyclicals 1891-1991

Mater et Magistra

Antinuous, 2nd Century AD, Bronze Statue (Berlin)

 Sexual Rights:  Sodomy

Right to Privacy

Griswold v. Connecticut

Lawrence et al. v. Texas

 Pope Paul VI's Humanum Vitae

Gay Marriage

Hillary Goodridge & others  vs. Department of Public Health & another   (Massachusetts' Decision)

Letters of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI): 1986    2003

Pope Benedict XVI:  Sacramentum caritatis