Individual Rights

Click on image for the manuscript of the American Bill of Rights in the National Archives, Washington, DC

Virgina Declaration of Rights

Bill of Rights

Amendments to the Constitution

Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen 1789

English Bill of Rights 1689

Vermont Declaration of Rights

Pope John XXIII's Pacem in terris

Adler, Rights

Pennington, The History of Rights in Western Thought

Economic Rights:  Rights of the Poor

Is Necessity the Answer?   

Southwark v. Williams (1971)

Noah Feldman on the Supreme Court and Foreign Law

Mater et Magistra

Antinuous, 2nd Century A.D. Bronze Statue (Berlin)

Warren and Brandeis, Right to Privacy (1890)

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 

Lawrence et al. v. Texas (2003)

Privacy a Constitutional Right?

Courts v. Legislature

Church v. State

Gay Marriage

Hillary Goodridge & others  vs. Department of Public Health & another  (2003) (Massachusetts Decision)

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

Pope Benedict XVI:  Sacramentum caritatis

Pew Foundation Study of Gay Marriage