title:
Other title: Reclaiming our liberties ten years after 9/11
title:
A call to courage : reclaiming our liberties ten years after 9/11.
contributor:
American Civil Liberties Union
publisher:
American Civil Liberties Union
date:
Record modified: 2011-11-10
date:
Record created: 2011-11-10
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Modified: Wed Sep 07 02:49:06 EDT 2011
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Issued: 2011
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Harvested from https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/acalltocourage.pdf on November 10, 2011.
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Extent: 1 online resource (36 p.) : digital, PDF file.
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Contents: Introduction. -- Chapter I: An everywhere and forever war. -- Chapter II: A cancer on our legal system. -- Chapter III: Fracturing our "more perfect union". -- Chapter IV: A massive and unchecked surveillance society. -- Endnotes.
description:
Abstract: This report warns that a decade after the 9/11 attacks, the United States is at risk of enshrining a permanent state of emergency in which core values must be subordinated to ever-expanding claims of national security. The report explores how sacrificing America's values--including justice, individual liberty, and the rule of law--ultimately undermines safety. We have seen Congress and the courts, which are intended to act as checks on executive overreach, fail to perform their constitutional oversight, standing down rather than standing up to the exaggerated demands of an unchecked executive. Indeed, Congress has too often actively stoked the politics of fear, passing statutes that claim to be tough on terror but in fact make us less safe. Our nation can and must do better.
subject:
Civil rights--United States.; War and emergency powers--United States.
relation:
OCLC No.: 755909654
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Reader.
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application/pdf
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Text
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PDF-1.4
source:
https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/acalltocourage.pdf
language:
eng
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identifier:
acalltocourage