| Description |
1 online resource (388 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Contents ; Reader's Guide to Related Documents and Sidebars ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Colonial and Founding Documents ; 2. Early Court Rulings on Due Process, Equal Protection, First Amendment, and Privacy ; 3. 20th-Century Statements and Enactments ; 4. 20th-Century Court Rulings ; 5. 21st-Century Enactments Concerning the War on Terror ; 6. 21st-Century Court Rulings ; 7. Arbitrary State Action and Politics ; Civil Liberties Resources ; Index |
| Summary |
What is the state of civil liberties in the United States today? Has anything actually changed since the end of the Bush administration? In February 2010, President Obama signed a one-year extension of the USA PATRIOT Act, legislation passed by Congress in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001Ña statute widely denounced by civil liberties advocates |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources
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Civil rights
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780313379352 |
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0313379351 |
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