Not a Suicide Pact The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency

Name: Not a Suicide Pact The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
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ISBN: 9780195304275

ISBN-10: 0195304276

ISBN-13: 9780195304275

Edition: 2006

Authors: Richard A. Posner

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Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens--many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. In Not a Suicide Pact, Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent and elegant response to these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with public safety in the face of grave national danger. Critical of civil libertarians who balk at any curtailment of their rights, even in the face of an unprecedented terrorist threat in an era of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Posner…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.79" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792

Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.




How are constitutional rights created?



How does national security shape constitutional rights?



Rights against detention



Rights against brutal interrogation, and against searches and seizures



The right of free speech, with a comment on profiling



Rights of privacy