Protocols of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protocols of Liberty write by William B. Warner. This book was released on 2013-09-20. Protocols of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution, Protocols of Liberty shows how American patriots—the Whigs—used new forms of communication to challenge British authority before any shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. To understand the triumph of the Whigs over the Brit-friendly Tories, William B. Warner argues that it is essential to understand the communication systems that shaped pre-Revolution events in the background. He explains the shift in power by tracing the invention of a new political agency, the Committee of Correspondence; the development of a new genre for political expression, the popular declaration; and the emergence of networks for collective political action, with the Continental Congress at its center. From the establishment of town meetings to the creation of a new postal system and, finally, the Declaration of Independence, Protocols of Liberty reveals that communication innovations contributed decisively to nation-building and continued to be key tools in later American political movements, like abolition and women’s suffrage, to oppose local custom and state law.
Principles of Liberty
Principles of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Principles of Liberty write by William Ernest Bruges. This book was released on 1962. Principles of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cost of Counterterrorism
The Cost of Counterterrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cost of Counterterrorism write by Laura K. Donohue. This book was released on 2008-04-14. The Cost of Counterterrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack political stakes are high: legislators fear being seen as lenient or indifferent and often grant the executive broader authorities without thorough debate. The judiciary's role, too, is restricted: constitutional structure and cultural norms narrow the courts' ability to check the executive at all but the margins. The dominant 'Security or Freedom' framework for evaluating counterterrorist law thus fails to capture an important characteristic: increased executive power that shifts the balance between branches of government. This book re-calculates the cost of counterterrorist law to the United Kingdom and the United States, arguing that the damage caused is significantly greater than first appears. Donohue warns that the proliferation of biological and nuclear materials, together with willingness on the part of extremists to sacrifice themselves, may drive each country to take increasingly drastic measures with a resultant shift in the basic structure of both states.
The NSA Report
The NSA Report - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The NSA Report write by President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The. This book was released on 2014-03-31. The NSA Report available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.
Code
Code - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Code write by Director Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics and Roy L Furman Professorship of Law Lawrence Lessig. This book was released on 2016-08-31. Code available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of exquisitely oppressive control.If we miss this point, then we will miss how cyberspace is changing. Under the influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highly regulable space, where our behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space.But that's not inevitable either. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies.
