Description: Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights―such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections―but to guarantee that the process of democracy continues without disenfranchisement, oppression, or injustice. Neuborne, who was the legal director of the ACLU and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, invites us to hear the “music” within the form and content of Madison’s carefully formulated text. When we hear Madison’s music, a democratic ideal flowers in front of us, and we can see that the First Amendment gives us the tools to fight for campaign finance reform, the right to vote, equal rights in the military, the right to be full citizens, and the right to prevent corporations from riding roughshod over the weakest among us. Neuborne gives us an eloquent lesson in democracy that informs and inspires.
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Book Title: Madison's Music : on Reading the First Amendment
Item Length: 8.5 in
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket
Topic: Civics & Citizenship, Civil Rights, Constitutional, Constitutions, Music
Item Width: 5.8 in
Signed: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: The New Press
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Novel
Era: 2010s
Author: Burt. Neuborne
Genre: Law, Political Science
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 15 oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages