Research Proposal help

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Here are my professor’s instructions: Describe in approximately 300 words, how you plan to go about your research. Back to what period or moment of history does your claim send you? How do you plan to go about examining that claim? (e.g., if you were looking at an abortion or birth control case, are you researching practices and scientific wisdom at the time of the decision? the time the Constitution was written? some time in between pointed to by the court?) What sources do you need to find to examine the claim (e.g., newspapers and magazines; medical literature; census statistics)? The bibliography is crucial:

Identify a body of specific primary sources: If I wanted to know how abortion was covered in a major American newspaper during the year before the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision to see whether the decision incorporated the debates and controversies of the time in a specific way, I could go to the “New York Times (Historical)” database. Put together a series of such database hits, and pretty soon you have a great bibliography and the basis for a very interesting historical analysis. In sum, identifying a small body of logically related primary sources is the goal here.

identify 2 key secondary sources: these are articles, books, or book chapters by scholars or professional journalist that will not so much answer your research question as give you relevant historical context; you are not looking for law review articles analyzing the legal technicalities of your case, but rather studies of the historical time and place you are researching (e.g. late 1960s feminism; law and medicine in the early republic); you will add to this list as needed, but these two are, as far as you can tell, indispensable to your project. Write a sentence or two about each source explaining its relevance and how you hope to use the source in your research.According to these instructions provide me with a research proposal and an annotated bibliography based on the following Supreme Court Case: Loving v. Virginia (1967). The historical claim i’m analyzing is the following: “The Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriage was overturned because it violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects an individual’s fundamental right to marry without state interference based on race.” Attached is some information on the corresponding case. Make sure you make the annotated bibliography according to the Chicago Manual of Style.