Taming of Free Speech - Americas Civil Liberties Compromise

Informationen zum Autor Laura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Klappentext Laura Weinrib shows how a coalition of lawyers and activists made judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights a defining feature of American democracy. Protection of civil liberties was a calculated bargain between liberals and conservatives to save the courts from New Deal attack and secure free speech for both labor radicals and businesses. Zusammenfassung Laura Weinrib shows how a coalition of lawyers and activists made judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights a defining feature of American democracy. Protection of civil liberties was a calculated bargain between liberals and conservatives to save the courts from New Deal attack and secure free speech for both labor radicals and businesses.

Product details

• Authors: Weinrib, Laura Weinrib, Weinrib Laura
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2016
• EAN: 9780674545717
• ISBN: 978-0-674-54571-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Legal History, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties