The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights write by . This book was released on 1978. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Freedom to Read
The Freedom to Read - 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 Freedom to Read write by American Library Association. This book was released on 1953. The Freedom to Read available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America - 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 Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America write by Ellis Cose. This book was released on 2020-09-15. The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of Newsweek’s "25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020" The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet powerful and timely book. Free speech has long been one of American's most revered freedoms. Yet now, more than ever, free speech is reshaping America’s social and political landscape even as it is coming under attack. Bestselling author and critically acclaimed journalist Ellis Cose wades into the debate to reveal how this Constitutional right has been coopted by the wealthy and politically corrupt. It is no coincidence that historically huge disparities in income have occurred at times when moneyed interests increasingly control political dialogue. Over the past four years, Donald Trump’s accusations of “fake news,” the free use of negative language against minority groups, “cancel culture,” and blatant xenophobia have caused Americans to question how far First Amendment protections can—and should—go. Cose offers an eye-opening wholly original examination of the state of free speech in America today, litigating ideas that touch on every American’s life. Social media meant to bring us closer, has become a widespread disseminator of false information keeping people of differing opinions and political parties at odds. The nation—and world—watches in shock as white nationalism rises, race and gender-based violence spreads, and voter suppression widens. The problem, Cose makes clear, is that ordinary individuals have virtually no voice at all. He looks at the danger of hyper-partisanship and how the discriminatory structures that determine representation in the Senate and the electoral college threaten the very concept of democracy. He argues that the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect free speech and democracy have instead become instruments of suppression by an unfairly empowered political minority. But we can take our rights back, he reminds us. Analyzing the experiences of other countries, weaving landmark court cases together with a critical look at contemporary applications, and invoking the lessons of history, including the Great Migration, Cose sheds much-needed light on this cornerstone of American culture and offers a clarion call for activism and change.
The Right to Free Life
The Right to Free Life - 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 Right to Free Life write by Alexander Abrams. This book was released on 2018-03-05. The Right to Free Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a human race, people from the day of Adam and Eve never consider the consequence of their actions. This book should teach you on how to cope with every aspect of life, from the loss of a pet, a friend, a family member; paying respects to the dead; mourning and praying for everlasting life; forgiveness; or just talking to someone, who is always listing by the way! That man is God, not the government! This book contains my views on how we still let the government control our lives and pay for military action and supply for war and not looking after the little people in the food chain. Drugs, from mary jane (cannabis) to pharmaceutical ones, to alcoholthis is the good, bad, and ugly from usage abuse. Its a good idea to take these drugs or other substances for any reason such as to talk out your problems instead of being depressed, bottling up or holding on to themyour emotions. Using a substance to sustain an unstable mind or to control anger depression or to feel mixed feeling such as happiness or contempt and every other emotion that goes with that or different concept. My aim in this book is to prove to the world that as a close-minded, irrational, undignified race, there is a god who loves everything and everyone who is there and close by smelling (your farts), watching (having sex, masturbating, eating, and everything else you and I do), listening (thoughts, prayers, and conversations), and feeling (your emotions, souls, hearts, minds and bodies desires). But he can only forgive to a certain extent; thats why the devil is burning in hell, and me, as the antidevil, I call myself, but my sins caused me to turn back on the one who loved me more than life (the holy family). Thats why God told Jesus to tell the apostle John to call me the Antichrist in the Bible and say he is the son of Satan, and my penalty is hell as well, if not obscure darkness, but I hope to repent somehow someday. I feel with the power of God, nothing is impossible. This book is about my theories; problems; thoughts; judgments; politics; history; science; business; the world in past, present, and future; at home on the streets; the rest of society and socializing; and everything that was and is created for a purpose in and around life living and loving. Also if it has no purpose, it could be disused.
The Free Speech Century
The Free Speech Century - 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 Free Speech Century write by Lee C. Bollinger. This book was released on 2019. The Free Speech Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present danger." Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual for criticizing the draft during World War I, it also laid the foundation for our nation's robust protection of free speech. Over time, the standard Holmes devised made freedom of speech in America a reality rather than merely an ideal. In The Free Speech Century, two of America's leading First Amendment scholars, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, have gathered a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars--Cass Sunstein, Lawrence Lessig, Laurence Tribe, Kathleen Sullivan, Catherine McKinnon, among others--to evaluate the evolution of free speech doctrine since Schenk and to assess where it might be headed in the future. Since 1919, First Amendment jurisprudence in America has been a signal development in the history of constitutional democracies--remarkable for its level of doctrinal refinement, remarkable for its lateness in coming (in relation to the adoption of the First Amendment), and remarkable for the scope of protection it has afforded since the 1960s. Over the course of The First Amendment Century, judicial engagement with these fundamental rights has grown exponentially. We now have an elaborate set of free speech laws and norms, but as Stone and Bollinger stress, the context is always shifting. New societal threats like terrorism, and new technologies of communication continually reshape our understanding of what speech should be allowed. Publishing on the one hundredth anniversary of the decision that laid the foundation for America's free speech tradition, The Free Speech Century will serve as an essential resource for anyone interested in how our understanding of the First Amendment transformed over time and why it is so critical both for the United States and for the world today.
