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Making Our Democracy Work
- A Judge’s View
- De: Justice Stephen Breyer
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America’s highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique approach - certain to be admired for years to come - to interpreting the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely
- De Don en 05-17-17
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Sex and the Constitution
- Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
- De: Geoffrey R. Stone
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today's fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Divisive Issues
- De Joanne en 06-28-17
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We the People
- A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative Supreme Court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the US Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hypocritical evaluation of the constitution
- De surya en 03-23-19
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Free Speech on Campus
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for understanding the 1st Amendment!
- De Kimberly Finnegan en 12-27-18
De: Erwin Chemerinsky, y otros
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Sisters in Law
- How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
- De: Linda Hirshman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 527
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 524
The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and thought-provoking
- De Jean en 09-08-15
De: Linda Hirshman
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HATE
- Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
- De: Nadine Strossen
- Narrado por: Nadine Strossen, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech", showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" - which has no generally accepted definition - is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, US law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory speech in specific contexts when it directly causes imminent serious harm.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Important Message But Repetitive Execution
- De ReaderTeacher en 08-19-18
De: Nadine Strossen
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Imbeciles
- The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Concept, Aggravating Execution
- De Gillian en 04-05-16
De: Adam Cohen
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Impossible Subjects
- Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
- De: Mae M. Ngai
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent introduction to USA immigration
- De David en 03-17-23
De: Mae M. Ngai
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The Post-American Presidency
- The Obama Administration's War on America
- De: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Widely popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer team up for this battle cry about the damage being done by the current administration's policies to the institution of the American presidency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The real truth behind the Obama administration
- De Joyce Blue en 04-10-16
De: Pamela Geller, y otros
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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
- De: Michael Vinson Williams
- Narrado por: Brandon Church
- Duración: 19 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
This biography of a seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Myrlie Evers-Williams (Evers's widow), his two remaining siblings, friends, grade-school-to-college schoolmates, and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. Extensive archival work in the Evers Papers, the NAACP Papers, oral history collections, FBI files, Citizen Council collections, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Papers, to list a few, provides a detailed account of Evers's NAACP work and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible Narration
- De Estella Owoimaha en 10-02-17
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How Rights Went Wrong
- Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
- De: Jamal Greene
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they were an afterthought for the Framers. Only as a result of the racial strife that exploded during the Civil War—and a series of resulting missteps by the Supreme Court—did rights gain such outsized power. Over and again, courts have treated rights conflicts as zero-sum games in which awarding rights to one side means denying rights to others. As eminent legal scholar Jamal Greene shows in How Rights Went Wrong, we need to recouple rights with justice—before they tear society apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A different way to look at rights.
- De Nicolas Pabon en 07-11-23
De: Jamal Greene
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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
- A Biography of the First Amendment
- De: Anthony Lewis
- Narrado por: Stow Lovejoy
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just 14 words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Freedom of Expression: 163 years of Solitude
- De Dudley H. Williams en 12-21-11
De: Anthony Lewis
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Policing the Black Man
- Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
- De: Angela J. Davis - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 79
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. Essays range from an explication of the historical roots of racism in the criminal justice system to an examination of modern-day police killings of unarmed black men.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Book Every Young White Male Should Read
- De danielwead en 08-04-17
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Scorpions
- The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
- De: Noah Feldman
- Narrado por: Cotter Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MOST HONOURABLE SWANSONG
- De Dudley H. Williams en 05-27-12
De: Noah Feldman