Inalienable Rights – serie
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HATE
Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship
Häftad, 2020
217 kr
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The updated paperback edition of HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. As "hate speech" has no generally accepted definition, we …
Constitutional Personae
Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes
Inbunden, 2015
308 kr
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Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge, points out, almost every one of …
The Future of Foreign Intelligence
Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age
Inbunden, 2016
400 kr
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Since the Revolutionary War, America's military and political leaders have recognized that U.S. national security depends upon the collection of intelligence. Absent information about foreign threats, the thinking went, the country and its citizens stood in great peril. To address this, the Courts …
The Religion Clauses
The Case for Separating Church and State
Av Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
Inbunden, 2020
267 kr
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Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided. And, with recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change dramatically in the years ahead. In The Religion …
HATE
Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship
Inbunden, 2018
279 kr
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HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about hate speech vs. free speech, showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that hate speech which has no generally accepted …
Democracy and Equality
The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court
Av Geoffrey R. Stone, David A. Strauss
Inbunden, 2020
344 kr
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From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize …
Saving the News
Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech
Av Martha Minow
Inbunden, 2021
285 kr
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A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. In The Changing Ecosystem of the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. She …
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open
A Free Press for a New Century
Inbunden, 2010
388 kr
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Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in …
Agreeing to Disagree
How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience
Av Nathan S. Chapman, Michael W. McConnell
Inbunden, 2023
260 kr
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In one of the most thorough accounts of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell provide an insightful overview of the legal history and meaning of the clause, as well as its value for promoting equal religious freedom and diversity in contemporary …
From Disgust to Humanity
Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
Inbunden, 2010
295 kr
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A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable …
The Living Constitution
Inbunden, 2010
295 kr
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, …
More Essential than Ever
The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century
Inbunden, 2012
654 kr
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When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course, "papers …
Liars
Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception
Inbunden, 2021
230 kr
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A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the problem.Lying has been with us from time immemorial. Yet today is different-and in many respects worse. All over the world, people are circulating …
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies
Av Aziz Z. Huq
Inbunden, 2022
387 kr
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An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation. Just recently, the Supreme Court rejected an argument by plaintiffs that police …
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
Av David Pozen
Inbunden, 2024
260 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.An authoritative and first-of-its-kind critical constitutional history of the war …
Why We Vote
Av Owen Fiss
Inbunden, 2024
260 kr
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In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that gives expression to the democratic aspirations of the US Constitution. Fiss argues that embedded within the Constitution is a commitment to democracy, and that over the course of the …
The Twilight of Human Rights Law
Av Eric Posner
Inbunden, 2014
387 kr
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In International Human Rights, acclaimed legal scholar Eric Posner seeks to explain a paradox: the language of human rights is now the dominant mode of international moral criticism of governments, and yet the evidence suggests that most countries flagrantly violate the human rights treaties that …
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Av Goodwin Liu, Pamela Karlan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
295 kr
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Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's …
Cosmic Constitutional Theory
Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance
Inbunden, 2012
654 kr
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American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential …
On Constitutional Disobedience
Inbunden, 2013
492 kr
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What would the Framers of the Constitution make of multinational corporations? Nuclear weapons? Gay marriage? They led a preindustrial country, much of it dependent on slave labor, huddled on the Atlantic seaboard. The Founders saw society as essentially hierarchical, led naturally by landed gentry …
