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[Steven H. Shiffrin] ✓ Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America "Superb book; claims dissent is central meaning of 1st amend." according to A Customer. Although lots of speech serves valuable roles in people's lives, constitutional protection is only needed for speech that those with power may want to suppress. Primarily, that is speech that those with power consider harmful, whether harmful to their own interests, to other people, to the society, or maybe even to the speaker herself. Such speech is most often the speech of the dissenter who challenges some
| Title | : | Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.56 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691001421 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
"Superb book; claims dissent is central meaning of 1st amend." according to A Customer. Although lots of speech serves valuable roles in people's lives, constitutional protection is only needed for speech that those with power may want to suppress. Primarily, that is speech that those with power consider harmful, whether harmful to their own interests, to other people, to the society, or maybe even to the speaker herself. Such speech is most often the speech of the dissenter who challenges some aspect of the status quo. Those who like things as they are or who wants to maintain there current position often. Jack M. Balkin said A powerful argument from a distinguished scholar and teacher. Steve Shiffrin is one of the most important thinkers writing on First Amendment issues today. He has long held the view that the point of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech is to protect dissent. Shiffrin's dissent-based view constrasts both with libertarian defenses of freedom of speech and the familiar metaphor of truth emerging from the "marketplace of ideas." Dissent, Shiffrin argues, is a phenomenon closely tied to human beings' felt sense of injustice. Dissent involves ordinary people talking about and. A huge dissapointment brought on by hack politics A Customer I read this little volume expecting to find a detailing of the reasons free speech no longer exists in certain sectors of public life where they are neededs most -specifically the universities- and came out thinking "say what?"In a masterful twist of political showmanship, Shifrin avoids coming to the blunt conclusions necessary for underastanding political life in the universities- that the modern radical left has wipied out the free exhcange of ideas. Essentially, Shiffrin ignored this overpoweringly important subject
To ensure that more voices are heard, he argues, the country should take such steps as making defamation laws more hospitable to criticism of powerful people, loosening the grip of commercial interests on the media, and ensuring that young people are taught the importance of challenging injustice.Powerfully and clearly argued, Shiffrin's book is a major contribution to debate about one of the most important subjects in American public life.. He shows that a dissent-based approach would offer strong protection for free speech--he defends flag burning as a legitimate form of protest, for example--but argues that it wo
The freedom to dissent, he observes, is the basis for preventing tyranny, as outlined by such notable liberty theorists as John Stuart Mill. One is left wondering if he envisions a structure wherein some dissent is more protected than others. This is an academic work that will be appreciated by left-leaning legal scholarsAthose who will take the time to reread Shiffrin's informed but dense prose.ASteven Anderson, Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger & Hollander, BaltimoreCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Shiffrin (law, Cornell) analyzes contemporary First Amendment jurisprudence, paying special attention to problems created by various forms of "hate speech" legislation. Shiffrin's perspective also seems influenced by nontraditional intellectual strands, su
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