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Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America /
Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country'...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country's major institutions--including the Supreme Court and the mass media--wrongly limit dissent. And he reflects on how society and the law should change to encourage nonconformity. Shiffrin is one of the country's leading first-amendment theorists. He advances his dissent-based theory of free spee. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400822966 |