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The Constitution Goes to College : Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University.

American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Colum...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smolla, Rodney A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Five constitutional ideas that have influenced the identity of American universities
  • Academic freedom and the living constitution
  • The public and the private sphere
  • Rights and privileges
  • Ordered liberty
  • Competing conceptions of equality.