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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric A Posner; Adrian Vermeule |
| ISBN: | 019531025X 9780195310252 |
| OCLC Number: | 487218360 |
| Description: | 319 s. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Table of contents only: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2006007848-t.html. |
| Responsibility: | Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule. |
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"Admirably clear and free of technical jargon, this is a relentlessly rational dissection of a topic confused by overstatement, opportunistic political posturing and just plain lack of common sense. If you are not convinced, you will be challenged to explain exactly why not."--Charles Fried, Harvard Law School
"It is conventional wisdom that during times of war and emergency, presidents overreact to threats and excessively violate civil liberties, and courts do too little to stop these developments. Terror in the Balance challenges this conventional wisdom from top to bottom. With its incisive and contrarian analyses of contemporary issues like coercive interrogation, military commissions, censorship laws, the PATRIOT Act, and ethnic profiling, Terror in the Balance is an enormously important contribution to the study of constitutional government during wartime. This book will cause civil libertarians to pull their hair out; it will also force them to improve their arguments."--
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