Bill of wrongs : the executive branch's assault on America's fundamental rights

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Tác giả: Lou Dubose, Molly Ivins

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 1400062861

Ký hiệu phân loại: 323.490973 Specific civil rights; limitation and suspension of civil rights

Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Random House, 2007

Mô tả vật lý: xxi, 214 p. ; , 22 cm.

Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật

ID: 35285

"Molly Ivins got the idea for Bill if Wrongs while touring America to honor her promise to speak out, gratis, at least once a month in defense of free speech. In her travels Ivins met ordinary people going to extraordinary measures to safeguard our most precious liberties, and when she first started writing this book she intended it to be a joyous celebration of those heroes. But during the Bush years, the project's focus changed. Ivins became concerned about threats to our cherished freedoms - the Patriot Act, the weakening of habeas corpus - and she observed with anger how dissent in the defense of liberties was being characterized as treason by the Bush administration and its enablers." "From illegal wiretaps, the unlawful imprisonment of American citizens, and the undermining of freedom of the press to the creeping influence of religious extremism on our national agenda and the erosion of the checks and balances that prevent a president from seizing unitary powers, Ivins and her longtime collaborator, Lou Dubose, co-author of Shrub and Bushwhacked, describe the attacks on America's vital constitutional guarantees. With devastating humor and keen eyes for deceit and hypocrisy, they show just how severe these incursions have become, and they ask us all to take an active role in protecting the Bill of Rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-201) and index.
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