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Morgan asserts that during the 1960s and 1970s a "rights industry," consisting of interest group advocates, activist lawyers, law professors, and publicists, had become engaged in expanding, redefining, and manipulating the law of civil rights and liberties in order to create new rights against the claims of society, even when these ignored or distorted America's constitutional tradition. As a result, American institutions, both governmental and private,...
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The conservative majority that has dominated the Supreme Court for over a decade was engineered by presidents who claimed to have depoliticized the courts and promoted judicial restraint. Yet the result has been a steady stream of opinions that limit individual rights far more than is commonly understood. In With Liberty and Justice for Some, David Kairys presents a fascinating analysis of the changes brought about by the Reagan-Bush courts, changes...
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"Geoffrey R. Stone has now produced this condensed history of individual freedoms in six crucial periods of conflict - from the 1790s to the present day - along with an in-depth examination of how our constitutional rights have fared in the Bush era. This historical narrative offers a revealing introduction to our most essential constitutional rights."--Jacket.
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Surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America. This book delineates the shifting relationships between American law practice and women, both within the family and elsewhere, as Americans tried to implement republican constitutions in an emerging capitalist society.
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Ellis Sandoz reevaluates the traditional understanding of the philosophic and intellectual background of the American founding in light of an exhaustive assessment of Renaissance, medieval, and ancient political philosophy. He shows that the Founding Fathers were consciously and explicitly seeking to create a political order that would meet the demands of human nature and society. Central to Sandoz' analysis is the importance of American religious...
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"THE CONTINUITY OF CHANGE is a history of the Warren and Burger Courts. It examines the way the two Courts interpreted the meaning of certain basic rights between 1953, the year Earl Warren became Chief Justice, and 1986, when his successor, Warren Burger, resigned. Urofsky chose this period because the decisions of these two Courts marked one of the greatest expansions in the meaning of American liberties in our history. The central theme of this...
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"Islamophobia has long been a part of the problem of racism in the United States, and it has only gotten worse in the wake of shocking terror attacks, the ongoing refugee crisis, and calls from public figures like Donald Trump for drastic action. As a result, the number of hate crimes committed against Middle Eastern Americans of all origins and religions have increased, and civil rights advocates struggle to confront this striking reality. In Islamophobia...
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Published on the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, this is a sweeping chronicle of the struggle for political and economic justice. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns and Stewart Burns trace America's tenuous hold on freedom from the time of the 13 colonies' exclusionist voting practices to Ronald Reagan's campaign against the First Amendment reinforced by private "new right" groups and fundamentalists....
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This updated comprehensive history of the American Civil Liberties Union recounts the ACLU's stormy history since its founding in 1920 to fight for free speech and explores its involvement in some of the most famous causes in American history, including the Scopes "monkey trial," the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Cold War anti-Communist witch hunts, and the civil rights movement. The new introduction covers the history...
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The executive director of the ACLU takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines of the fight for civil liberties, this book examines the dangerous erosion of the Bill of Rights in the age of the War on Terror. Readers are taken behind the scenes of some important civil liberties cases, including: the National Security Agency's warrantless...
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Using the hot-button issues of privacy rights, race, and free speech, this book demonstrates how Kennedy forcefully articulates a libertarian constitutional vision. The Tie Goes to Freedom fills two voids--one examining the jurisprudence of the man at the ideological center of the Supreme Court, the other demonstrating the compatibility of an expansive judicial role with libertarian political theory. --from publisher description.
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