How Rights Went Wrong Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
eBook - 2021
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a ...gun. Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that...
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File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9781328518149 |
Release Date | 2/27/2024 |
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ASIN | B08B3JM1CV |
Release Date | 2/27/2024 |
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ISBN | 9781328518149 |
Release Date | 2/27/2024 |