Before the next attack : preserving civil liberties in an age of terrorism /
Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents a practical alternative. He proposes an ʺemergency consti...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2006.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187928 |
Table of Contents:
- This is not a war
- This is not a crime
- This is an emergency
- The political constitution
- The role of judges
- American exceptionalism
- If Washington blows up?
- The morning after.