POLS 216: The Supreme Court (HC)

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The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

• privacy [Any Field] AND ("supreme court") [Any Field]         
• "griswold v connecticut" [Any Field]        
• (sex discrimination against women  law and legislation  united states [as a Subject Heading]  With newest titles listed first        
• (legal OR laws)  [Subjects] AND "supreme court" AND ("same sex" OR lesbian* OR gay OR queer OR homosex* OR lgbt*) AND "united states" [all Any Field]          
• politic* AND "united states supreme court" [Subjects] AND (protest OR protests OR activis*) [all Any Field]  Newest books first        
• "supreme court" [Subject] AND "public opinion" AND "united states" [Any Fields]         

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

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