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This book addresses a major problem in contemporary American higher education: deprivations of free speech, due process, and other basic civil liberties in the name of favored political causes. Downs begins by analyzing the nature and evolution of the problem, and discusses how these betrayals of liberty have harmed the truth seeking mission of universities. Rather than promoting equal respect and tolerance of diversity, policies restricting academic...
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Part of Gale's "American Civil Rights Reference Library," "American Civil Rights: Primary Sources" allows students and researchers to review approximately 19 full or excerpted speeches, memoirs, and other documents arranged in broad subject chapters for easy comparison. Each entry features an historical overview, a document excerpt, an in-text glossary, sidebars detailing related events and selections for further reading
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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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From teenage protests against McCarthyism and organizing demonstrations against racial segregation on the streets of Baltimore, to Distinguished Professor and founder of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers Law School and General Counsel of the ACLU, Frank Askin has spent a lifetime battling for political and civil rights in the USA. In these pages Askin tells his own story; of his time on the streets, in the courts, in the legislative...
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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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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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