Peer Reviewed Journals

Hello Everyone!
This week was, how shall we say, a bit more productive research-wise. While my search was somewhat more direct and focused this week, I believe I actually found more articles of use to my research topic. There were certainly more relevant articles as opposed to books. I was little surprised by that this time around through the academic literature. This was not my first time going through that part of the library.

In my psychology class last term, many of the weekly posts were about doing some research on the question of the week. This was directed from the reading that week so the topic or an aspect of the mental disorder would nee to be researched in the library. Our restriction was that most sources had to be from an academic journal or other reliable source. Having the library handy for research was really quite convenient. Even if it was somewhat arduous in getting started using the proper database psychology research. It was also quite useful last term when I did a research paper for the same class.

This time finding articles in the academic journals has been a good deal easier as there isn't as limited a scope as there was previously. While most of the journals I have found to be mostly law review sorts of publications, there have been a couple of more social science or history related journals that have had some quite useful material.

Something I found quite revelatory in the reading of this selection of articles was more nuanced arguments for the different ways of interpreting the Constitution as far as what rights are actually granted by it specifically and inferred. On one hand, you have the historical and traditional aspect that reasons along the line of what id actually written, e.g. free speech, etc. and the justices are disinclined to expand beyond those. On the other, you have the more liberal justices that take the approach that rights are inherent to people and what makes them feel as their own person. It's termed the 'personhood' doctrine. I found that that concept has been quite instrumental in a number of rulings. The most important one is probably Roe vs. Wade.