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The Rights of Free Men
Alan Barth
其他書名
An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties
出版Knopf, 1984
主題Law / Civil ProcedurePolitical Science / Political Freedom
ISBN03945271789780394527178
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yIQaAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋For nearly 30 years, in his role as editorial-page writer on the Washington Post, Alan Barth was a strong and eloquent voice in support of individual rights in America. This splendid collection shows Mr. Barth's undiminished force on such important issues as freedom of speech, desegration, gun control, law enforcement, and McCarthyism. He was a vocal opponent of the retrenchment of civil liberties at home in the name of Communism abroad. He critized government agencies for their wiretapping activities and their use of anonymous informers in loyalty-security cases. He was an articulate defender of the First Amendment, believing that the right to read or look at whatever material interested a citizen was an integral characteristic of intellectual freedom. And he upheld the primacy of individual rights when they came into conflict with the needs or wants of law enforcement or pubilc opinion. Alan Barth's shining belief in the power of real democracy, of common sense and fairness to all, of constitutional principles, impelled him to a deeply convincing expression of the classic American liberal faith- an inspiration for our own times. -- Publisher description.