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Civil rights United States Constitutional law United States English language Grammar English language Grammar Problems, exercises, etc Freedom of speech Freedom of speech United States Judges United States Speeches, addresses, etc., American United States United States. Supreme Court Officials and employeesSummary: As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries. To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Ball, 19th-century slave Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each speaker's technique is examined within the context of why the speech is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kirby, David
Summary: "A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 KIRSummary: The U.S. is on orange alert, and the citizens of Midburgh are on the lookout for “suspicious activity.” What should they do when circumstantial evidence indicating a potential terrorist plot points to two people of Arab ethnicity? This Fred Friendly Seminar, produced as part of Columbia University’s 250th Anniversary, explores the balance between national security and civil liberties in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Tucker, Todd
Contents: Prologue, May 19, 1924 -- The antagonists : Matthew Walsh and D.C. Stephenson -- The unlikely rise of the University of Notre Dame -- The reincarnation of the Ku Klux Klan -- The rise of Notre Dame and the Indiana Klan -- The Klan takes over Indiana -- Notre Dame in the Klan's crosshairs -- D.C. Stephenson's grab for power -- The rally and the riot -- The ambush and Walsh's speech -- The ascent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.772 TUCRosenberg, Ian
Summary: "In this volume of the World Citizen Comics series, Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro create a practical framework for appreciating where our free speech protections have come from and how they may develop in the future. Freedom of speech is fiercely defended in America and has been since the First Amendment was written. But how does it work, and what laws shape it? Drawing on parallels between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7 ROSRosenberg, Ian
Summary: ""The Fight for Free Speech" explores ten cases that define First Amendment freedoms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 ROSMueller, Tom
Summary: The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 MUEBrettschneider, Corey Lang
Summary: Constitutional law scholar and political science professor Corey Brettschneider guides us through the Constitution and explains the powers--and limits--that it places on the presidency. From the document itself and from American history's most famous court cases, we learn why certain powers were granted to the presidency, how the Bill of Rights limits those powers, and what "the people" can do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 BRESchweikart, Larry.
Summary: Notable conservative historian Larry Schweikart takes an in-depth look at seven transformative moments in our nation's history and provides an analysis of how each of them spurred a trend that either confirmed or departed from the vision our Founding Fathers had for America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SCHWehle, Kim
Summary: "The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 WEHAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUESummary: What is the role of police in the United States? From their presence in individual communities, to their efforts to maintain order and curb crime, American police forces face the challenges of public scrutiny and government support. Today, those challenges extend to questions surrounding the technology police use for law enforcement purposes, from databases to drones. The urgent issues of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Times Educational Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363.2 POLForde, Patricia
Summary: Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORPiore, Adam
Summary: A tour of the current revolution in human augmentation explores how the world's most innovative engineers are helping people repair traumatic injuries while transcending physical and mental limitations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 PIOScalia, Antonin
Summary: "By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary life. A Supreme Court justice for three decades, he transformed the way that judges and lawyers think about the law. Married to his beloved Wife, Maureen, for more than fifty years, a father to nine children, and a grandfather to dozens, he was devoted to his family and his faith. He was gregarious, energetic, and a friend to people of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815 SCATimpf, Kat
Summary: In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong. We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should feel like we're all in this together. When someone says "you can't joke about that," what they really mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TIMGood, C. Edward.
Summary: This inviting book introduces readers anew to the eight parts of speech and common grammatical problems, the tension between nouns and verbs, the controversy of the active versus passive voice, and the power of a verb-based style.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Books 2002