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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Tác giả chính: Ackerman, Bruce A.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187928
Mục lục:
  • 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.