With Liberty And Justice For Some

Author : Glenn Greenwald
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466805765
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Liberty and Justice for Some written by Glenn Greenwald and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with Obama's shielding of Bush-era officials from prosecution, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else.

Author : David Kairys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565840591
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Liberty and Justice for Some written by David Kairys and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes some of the changes brought about by the Reagan-Bush Supreme Court, argues that the court is promoting an erosion of principles, and discusses the impact of Supreme Court decisions on life in the United States

Author : Susan K. Williams Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817018139
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Liberty & Justice for Some written by Susan K. Williams Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this provocative new book from prophetic preacher and pastor Susan Williams Smith, the author tackles the truths that the church in the United States has long held to be self-evident-that ours is one nation under God, that our U.S. Constitution is (almost) as infallible as the Holy Bible, and that democracy and its principles of justice for all are sacrosanct and protected by both God and government. Yet, history and headlines alike expose the fallacy of those assumptions, particularly when viewed in the light of a national culture of white supremacy and systemic racial injustice. In fact, Smith argues, the two texts we count as sacred have not been merely impotent in eliminating racism; they have been used to support and sustain white supremacy. This important work examines how our foundational documents have failed people of color and asks the question, Can those whom a nation has considered "we the problem" ever become "we the people" who are celebrated in the Preamble to the Constitution? What will it take to reclaim the transforming and affirming power of God and government to secure liberty and justice for all?"--

Author : Antony Flew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351311549
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Equality in Liberty and Justice written by Antony Flew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equality in Liberty and Justice is an integrated collection of essays in political philosophy, divided into two parts. The first examines (classically) liberal ideas-the ideas of the Founding Fathers of the American republic-and some of the applications and the rejections of such ideas in our contemporary world. Among other questions about liberty and responsibility it considers, in the context of the imprisonment and psychiatric treatment of dissidents in the psychiatric hospitals of the former Soviet Union, Plato's suggestion that all delinquency is an expression of mental disease.The second part examines the relations and the lack of relations between old fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice and what is called by its promoters social justice. It therefore presses such questions as "Equal outcomes or equal justice?" and "Enemies of poverty or of inequality?"Equality in Liberty and Justice was originally published before the winning of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. This second edition updates the arguments of the previous editor and draws present day moral conclusions. This book will appeal to those for whom the classical liberal and conservative debates still have great meaning. Flew might well be the most significant sunthesizer of Tocqueville and Mill.

Author : Kathleen G. Donohue
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 155849913X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Liberty and Justice for All? written by Kathleen G. Donohue and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the culture of American politics in the early decades of the Cold War

Author : Ray Cziczo
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412027756
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Liberty and Justice for All written by Ray Cziczo and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final words of the "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag", "With Liberty and Justice for All", are powerful words, as powerful as any words found in any of our national documents. Every day, millions of children say the "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag" in schools throughout the country. They are words that stir the emotions and inspire individuals to great acts of courage. They are words that inspire patriotism and national spirit. Liberty and Justice often seem elusive. Liberty and Justice mean different things to different people. Many people feel freedom gives them the absolute right to do what they choose without regard to other people. For many people, justice is considered a legal judgement rather than a moral judgement. In the courts, when a judgement has been rendered, the decision may be legally correct, but not "morally" correct. Justice and Liberty are like beauty; they are in the "eyes of the beholder". It is time to reexamine what these words mean and what they should mean.

Author : Scott Christianson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534684
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Liberty for Some written by Scott Christianson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Columbus' voyages to the New World through today's prison expansion movements, incarceration has played an important, yet disconcerting, role in American history. In this sweeping examination of imprisonment in the United States over five centuries, Scott Christianson exposes the hidden record of the nation's prison heritage, illuminating the forces underlying the paradox of a country that sanctifies individual liberty while it continues to build and maintain a growing complex of totalitarian institutions. Based on exhaustive research and the author's insider's knowledge of the criminal justice system, With Liberty for Some provides an absorbing, well-written chronicle of imprisonment in its many forms. Interweaving his narrative with the moving, often shocking, personal stories of the prisoners themselves and their keepers, Christianson considers convict transports to the colonies; the international trade in captive indentured servants, slaves, and military conscripts; life under slavery; the transition from colonial jails to model state prisons; the experience of domestic prisoners of war and political prisoners; the creation of the penitentiary; and the evolution of contemporary corrections. His penetrating study of this broad spectrum of confinement reveals that slavery and prisons have been inextricably linked throughout American history. He also examines imprisonment within the context of the larger society. With Liberty for Some is a thought-provoking work that will shed new light on the ways in which imprisonment has shaped the American experience. As the author writes, "Prison is the black flower of civilization -- a durable weed that refuses to die."

Author : Carrie Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1839080590
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Liberty & Justice for All written by Carrie Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two exceptional students face their ultimate test when they answer a call for help, in the first thrilling Xavier’s Institute novel, focused on the daring exploits of Marvel’s mutant heroes As part of their training at the New Charles Xavier Institute, Triage and Tempus are allowed to attempt their first solo flying mission. Some way into their mission, they pick up an urgent SOS message – Sentinels are attacking a superpowered mutant, who is struggling to protect an injured politician. When they abandon their lesson and answer the call, however, the identity of both will cause the two young X-Men far more problems than they bargained for.

Author : Kate Michelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Liberty and Justice for All written by Kate Michelman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares her own story as a reminder of the discriminatory practices that threatened women before Roe v. Wade, and identifies how proposed legislation restricting abortions compromises reproductive freedoms.

Author : Peter Mathews (Professor of political science)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dollar Democracy written by Peter Mathews (Professor of political science) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: