LibGuides: LAW405 v1: Module 3 Resources

Module 3 Required Resources

Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric by Frank Boardman; Nancy M. Cavender; Howard Kahane
ISBN: 9781305956025
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Boardman, F., Cavender, N., & Kahane, H. (2017). Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life (13th ed.). Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
This book introduces sound reasoning using current, relevant, and stimulating examples in a witty and invigorating writing style. Combining examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and our nation's political dialogue, this text brings the concepts to life and puts critical-thinking skills into a context you will retain and use throughout your life.

Required Reading for this module:
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

Your course textbook can be accessed via the DART eBook link in the Getting Started module.

New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen: The Relevance of Common Law Restrictions on Exercise of a Right
Hardy, D. T. (2023). New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen: The Relevance of Common Law Restrictions on Exercise of a Right. Charleston L. Rev., 18, 155.
Re-read the Bruen Excerpt. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court related to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Griswold v Connecticut, 381 US 479 (1965) (Excerpt)
Skelton, C. (2019). Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965). Justia Law. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/
Appellants, the Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and its medical director, a licensed physician, were convicted as accessories for giving married persons information and medical advice on how to prevent conception and, following examination, prescribing a contraceptive device or material for the wife's use. A Connecticut statute makes it a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent conception. Appellants claimed that the accessory statute, as applied, violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

Griswold v Connecticut, 381 US 479 (1965)
Skelton, C. (2019). Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965). Justia Law. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/
Read the entire opinion. Appellants, the Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and its medical director, a licensed physician, were convicted as accessories for giving married persons information and medical advice on how to prevent conception and, following examination, prescribing a contraceptive device or material for the wife's use. A Connecticut statute makes it a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent conception. Appellants claimed that the accessory statute, as applied, violated the Fourteenth Amendment.