Before the next attack : preserving civil liberties in an age of terrorism / Bruce A Ackerman
By: Ackerman, Bruce A.
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TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006Description: 227 p.ISBN: 9780300112894.Subject(s): War and emergency legislation | TerrorismDDC classification: 342.73062 A182B 2006 Summary: Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents a practical alternative. He proposes an ʺemergency constitutionʺ that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while
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Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents a practical alternative. He proposes an ʺemergency constitutionʺ that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while
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