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Neuborne, Burt, 1941- author.
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United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Constitutional history -- United States.
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Madison's music : on...
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Madison's music : on reading the First Amendment / Burt Neuborne.
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Neuborne, Burt, 1941- author.
New York ; London : The New Press, 2015.
Subjects
United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Constitutional history -- United States.
ISBN:
9781620970416 (hardback)
1620970414 (hardback)
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260 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Reading the First Amendment as a Poem -- Why Reading the First Amendment Isn't Easy -- Madison's Music : Lost and Found -- The First Amendment as a Narrative of Democracy -- Madison's Music Restored : Recovering Madison's Democracy-Friendly First Amendment -- The Democracy-Friendly First Amendment in Action -- Mr. Madison's Neighborhood -- Divine Madness : Hearing Madison's Music in the Religion Clauses -- The Costs of Ignoring Madison's Music : The Enigma of Judicial Review -- Madison, the Reluctant Poet : How the Great Poem Almost Didn't Get Written.
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"Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. 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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