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# Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights) ↠ PDF Download by * Richard A. Posner eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights) Not for the faint of heart To couch this review and Posner's argument, I paste a quote from Posner himself found the in The New Republic. "If torture is the only means of obtaining the information necessary to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Times Square, torture should be used--and will be used--to obtain the information. no one who doubts that this is the case should be in a position of r. Bertram Wooster said I expected better from Posner.. In another, perhaps better world, Judge
| Title | : | Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195304276 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
citizens--many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. Constitutional law must remain fluid, protean, and responsive to the pressure of contemporary events. 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. Posner argues that terrorist activity is suigeneris--it is neither "war" nor "crime"--and it demands a tailored response, one that gives terror suspects fewer constitutional rights than persons suspected of ordinary criminal activity. Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. Posner stresses the limits of law in regu
Not for the faint of heart To couch this review and Posner's argument, I paste a quote from Posner himself found the in The New Republic. "If torture is the only means of obtaining the information necessary to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Times Square, torture should be used--and will be used--to obtain the information. no one who doubts that this is the case should be in a position of r. Bertram Wooster said I expected better from Posner.. In another, perhaps better world, Judge Posner would have been a Republican nominee for the Supreme Court. His age reputedly barred him in this one.Unfortunately, for this book, you could probably stop at the title, and that would give you the gist.Judge Posner's thesis is that at a time of war, noone can be allowed to second judge the nation's security establishment. Moreover. "guide to living betwixt the world's latest maniacs" according to epic phlegm Hooha. The transition failures in times like Bob Dylan sings about in Ring Them Bells:It's rush hour now on the wheel and the plow,and the sun is going down upon the sacred cow .in the time that cries when innocense diessuggest that when life takes away being taken in, what have you got?Law exists for cases or controversies between sides that no longer maintain neutrality in a world
From Publishers Weekly Posner, who sits on the U.S. Saying we must balance the harm new security measures inflict on personal liberty against the increased security those measures provide, Posner comes down, in most but not quite all respects, on the side of increased government power. 18)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (Sept. He advocates that coercive and even brutal forms of interrogation should be allowed in proper circumstances, that all communications within the United States should be subject to interception, and that government should have authority to enjoin publication of classified information. All rights reserved. The series is intended to stimulate debate, and Posner's work will do exactly that, drilling energetically into a set of issues raised
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