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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans invoking symbolic events of the founding era to frame calls for change. Most observers have been critical of such "rights talk." Scholars on the left...
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An encyclopedia of past and present events associated with civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. 686 alphabetically arranged entries cover changes in civil rights and liberties in the last decade; covers the latest events and controversies surrounding civil liberties issues in America; explores the scope and limitations of Constitutional rights; includes primary documents with contextual headnotes; and provides sources for further...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Let the Students Speak! details the rich history and growth of the First Amendment in public schools, from the early nineteenth-century's failed student free-expression claims to the development of protection for students by the U.S. Supreme Court. David Hudson brings this history vividly alive by drawing from interviews with key student litigants in famous cases, including John Tinker of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District and Joe Frederick...
Pub. Date
2020
Description
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century...
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