Law's wars the fate of the rule of law in the US 'War on Terror'
"In the more than two centuries since the US was founded, the rule of law has been tested and compromised in numerous ways: the oppression of Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, labor struggles, the treatment of German-Americans in WW I, Japanese-Americans in WW II and radicals after both wars...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2018.
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Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in law and society. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39774569*spi |
Sumario: | "In the more than two centuries since the US was founded, the rule of law has been tested and compromised in numerous ways: the oppression of Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, labor struggles, the treatment of German-Americans in WW I, Japanese-Americans in WW II and radicals after both wars, the civil rights movement, protests against the Vietnam War, and more recently the distortion of the electoral process by money, gerrymandering, and disenfranchisement, and police responses to the Occupy movement and killings of young black man documented by Black Lives Matter. The "war on terror" has posed at least as great a danger"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 873-898) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9781108555302 |