Research Journal Part 3

1. What is the current position of the United States regarding the use of mandatory national ID cards, as initiated in Great Britain, but previously rejected for use in the United States?

(U.S. OR "United States") AND law AND national AND identification
Using ProQuest

2. Magazine
Sundeen, M., and J. Meadows. "The REAL ID Rebellion." State Legislatures 1 Mar. 2008: Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.

I chose this article because it was one of the most current magazine articles on this matter. This article outlined the history of the use of identification cards in the U.S. and the need for updated standards especially for national security and transportation. It also described concern for privacy issues, costs to the states, and the rebellion that is apparent by state governments to implement the REAL ID Act of 2005; all issues related to how the government will decide current use.

3. Scholarly Journal
Charlotte Twight. "Limited Government: Ave Atque Vale." The Independent Review 10.4 (2006):485-510. Alt-Press Watch (APW), ProQuest. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.

This article was useful because it was written shortly after the time the REAL ID Act of 2005 was passed and introduced to the public. It questions the official purpose of a national ID card despite the assurances of the government. As a scholarly journal article, this report contained references in an extensive bibliography and the author is the Brandt Professor of Free Enterprise Capitalism at Boise State University. A search of the publication's web page described the quarterly journal as peer-reviewed without political affiliation with a goal of research, education, and the study of government policy.

4. Newspaper
Andrea Fuller. "Effort to Replace Federal Driver's License Mandate Gains:[National Desk]." New York Times 16 Jul 2009, Late Edition (East Coast): New York Times, ProQuest. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.

Since the deadlines imposed by the government in the REAL ID Act of 2005 have passed as reported in publications earlier than 2008, it was necessary to find out the current status of the law. This article described the new program called PASS ID, the anticipated reduced costs to the states, and the continued rebellion of state governments to both REAL ID and PASS ID.

5. My initial search statement worked quite well although I found I did not have to use "identification card" to achieve the results I wanted. The second search statement I proposed in our Boolean unit was more detailed and brought up articles more focused on transportation and immigration laws. Since I wanted a broader scope and hoped to find more journal articles, I went back to the original statement and removed the truncation. This proved successful in broadening the number of what was described as scholarly journal articles, although very few had references attached to the article or a mention of the author's credentials. I attempted to add "REAL ID" to the search, but again found a large number of immigration and transportation articles. I also tried several combinations of 'mandat*' and 'regulat*', but this did not yield more articles that applied to the broader issues of privacy, national security, and a current implementation of the law. Since the original search statement also brought up articles referring to the REAL ID Act of 2005 without this phrase in the search statement, I stayed with the search statement as indicated at the beginning of this assignment.