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By Nancy Chang
In her groundbreaking new publication, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional specialist Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's struggle opposed to terrorism is leading to a traumatic erosion of First modification rights and raise of govt power.
Chang's compelling research starts with a old evaluation of political repression and intolerance of dissent in the USA. From the Sedition Act of 1798, throughout the Smith Act of the Forties and the internment of eastern americans in international battle II, to the FBI's notorious COINTELPRO application of the Sixties, Chang recollects how during periods of hindrance and conflict, the U.S. executive has unjustly detained participants, invaded own privateness, and hampered the unfastened speech of Americans.
Chang's services as a senior constitutional lawyer shines via within the energy and readability of her argument. Meticulously researched and footnoted, Chang's e-book forces us to problem the govt whilst it truly is unpopular to take action, and to think about that maybe "our destiny safeguard lies within the growth, relatively the contraction, of the democratic values set forth within the Constitution."
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