[PDF] Constructing Civil Liberties eBook

Author : Ken I. Kersch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521010559

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This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.

Author : Ken I. Kersch
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781107144330

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This book is a revisionist account of the development of the Supreme Court's modern civil liberties and civil rights jurisprudence. It explains that jurisprudence is the outgrowth of a sequence of highly particular progressive-reformist ideological currents, that formed the modern American state.

Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191029602

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Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the `moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others. George shows that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a `pluralistic perfectionist' political theory of civil liberties and public morality.

Author : Beth Bulgeron
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1480878332

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Students in the United States benefit greatly from studying legal history and constitutional law. Doing so can help them build reasoning and critical thinking skills, learn to assess facts from multiple viewpoints, and develop and refine persuasive writing skills. Constitutional Law and Student Civil Liberties uses situations close to students’ experiences to examine and analyze constitutional law. It both explains laws and concepts and provides numerous examples and exercises to help students absorb, engage with, and master the material. Through critical analysis of Supreme Court cases and the application of legal precedent to new facts and hypotheticals, students can gain a deep understanding of very complex areas of law and grapple with legal questions such as the following: • Does a principal of a school need a warrant to search a student’s purse? • Can school officials drug-test students who want to play a sport? • Can a sixteen-year-old get the death penalty for committing murder? • Can a college use race as a factor when deciding which students to admit? Intended for high school students, this textbook provides an in-depth introduction to constitutional law, building such skills as analytical reading, critical thinking, and persuasive writing through the study of constitutional protection of civil liberties.

Author : Judy Kutulas
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807830364

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Judy Kutulas traces the history of the ACLU between 1930 and 1960, as the organization shifted from the fringe to the liberal mainstream of American society. --from publisher description.

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107033063

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Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Author : Megan Ming Francis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139992546

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Did the civil rights movement impact the development of the American state? Despite extensive accounts of civil rights mobilization and narratives of state building, there has been surprisingly little research that explicitly examines the importance and consequence that civil rights activism has had for the process of state building in American political and constitutional development. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, and secured the support of Congress. In the NAACP's most far-reaching victory, the Supreme Court ruled that the constitutional rights of black defendants were violated by a white mob in the landmark criminal procedure decision Moore v. Dempsey. This book demonstrates the importance of citizen agency in the making of new constitutional law in a period unexplored by previous scholarship.

Author : Stephen L. Wasby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780809308170

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And Kaye M. Wright.

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2013
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781107031845

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An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe.