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  • Losing the News

    The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy

    par Alex Jones ...
    Collections series Institutions of American Democracy
    In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones says that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over government, holds the ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Kindly Inquisitors

    The New Attacks on Free Thought

    par Jonathan Rauch ...
    The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • There is No Such Thing as a Free Press

    ...and we need one more than ever

    par Mick Hume ...
    Collections Livre 31 - Societas
    The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel and privacy laws, the power of the Murdoch empire, and the future of the BBC, the media has become the ... En savoir plus

    $10.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Freedom of Speech

    par Eric Barendt ...
    This is a fully revised and updated new edition of the classic work first published in 1985. There have been many important developments since the first edition, including enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada in 1982, the impact of the European Human Rights Convention, and the consideration by English courts of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Social and ... En savoir plus

    $70.39 CAD

  • The End of Obscenity

    The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer & Fanny Hill by the Lawyer Who Defended Them

    par Charles Rembar ...
    George Polk Award Winner: This account of American book banning and the battles against it is "a tour de force to fascinate lawyers and laymen alike" ( The New York Times Book Review).Up until the 1960s, depending on your state of residence, your copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer might be seized by the US Postal Service before reaching your mailbox. Selling copies of Cleland's Fanny Hill in ... En savoir plus

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  • Terms of Engagement

    How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government

    par Clark M. Neily III ...
    The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America’s judges have largely abdicated that responsibility. All too often, instead of judging the constitutionality of government action, courts simply ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD

  • Attempt to Impeach Donald Trump - Declassified Government Documents, Investigation of Russian Election Interference & Legislative Procedures for the Impeachment

    Overview of Constitutional Provisions for President Impeachment, Russian Cyber Activities, Russian Intelligence Activities, Calls for Trump Impeachment, Testimony of James Comey and other Documents

    par White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, U.S. Congress, National Intelligence Council, Elizabeth B. Bazan ...
    Since the beginning of his presidential term president Donald Trump is faced with constant criticism for his business projects in Russia and his connections with the Russian authorities. On June 12th 2017 US Congressman Brad Sherman submitted the Resolution for Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. This book presents the latest ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lessons in Censorship

    How Schools and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights

    par Catherine J. Ross ...
    American public schools often censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Lessons in Censorship brings clarity to a bewildering array of court rulings that define the speech rights of young citizens in the school setting. Catherine J. Ross examines disputes that have erupted in our schools and courts over the civil rights movement, war and peace, rights for LGBTs, abortion, ... En savoir plus

    $53.29 CAD

  • Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open

    A Free Press for a New Century

    par Lee C. Bollinger ...
    Collections series Inalienable Rights
    Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of press ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free

    Stories of Free Expression in America

    par Ronald K.L. Collins, Sam Chaltain ...
    In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "We must not be afraid to be free." Black saw the First Amendment as the foundation of American freedom--the guarantor of all other Constitutional rights. Yet since free ... En savoir plus

    $46.39 CAD

  • The Tea Party

    Three Principles

    par Elizabeth Price Foley ...
    In The Tea Party: Three Principles, constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement, asserting that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America's future. Foley sees the Tea Party as a movement of principles over politics. She identifies three ... En savoir plus

    $39.19 CAD

  • Obscenity Rules

    Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression

    par Whitney Strub ...
    Collections series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    For some, he was “America’s leading smut king,” hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American society and constitutional law for longer than he had been in business. For while the facts of Roth v. ... En savoir plus

    $33.59 CAD