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Author : Richard T. Middleton (IV)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1640201912
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Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459618053
Unequal Protection details the deeply destructive results. Corporations now enjoy extraordinary priveleges that make them virtually independent kingdoms. This new feudalism is not what our founders intended. Hartmann proposes specific legal remedies that could truly save the world from political, economic, and ecological disaster. It's time for we, the people to take back our lives. With huge corporations now benefiting from massive taxpayer-funded bailouts, Hartmann's hard-hitting critique of corporate personhood is more timely than ever. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and features Hartmann's analysis of two recent critical Supreme Court corporate speech cases.
Author : Robert Doyle Bullard
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173002156184
Sixteen contributions show how environmental laws have been inconsistently applied, so that low-income communities and people of color suffer disproportionately from public health hazards. The essays describe how abuses have flourished for lack of government action and organized resistance, and document the strategies of grassroots groups on building coalitions among traditional environmentalists and social justice groups. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Lois G. Forer
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0393309541
Argues that gender- and age-related bias are common in the American legal system, traces the system's history, and shows present-day problems in these areas
Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781605098395
“This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies.” —Paul Hawken, New York Times-bestselling author NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Unequal taxes, unequal accountability for crime, unequal influence, unequal control of the media, unequal access to natural resources—corporations have gained these privileges and more by exploiting their legal status as persons. How did something so illogical and unjust become the law of the land? Americans have been struggling with the role of corporations since before the birth of the republic. As Thom Hartmann shows, the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against the British East India Company—the first modern corporation. Unequal Protection tells the astonishing story of how, after decades of sensible limits on corporate power, an offhand, off-the-record comment by a Supreme Court justice led to the Fourteenth Amendment—originally passed to grant basic rights to freed slaves—becoming the justification for granting corporations the same rights as human beings. And Hartmann proposes specific legal remedies that will finally put an end to the bizarre farce of corporate personhood. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and features Hartmann’s analysis of two recent Supreme Court cases, including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which tossed out corporate campaign finance limits. “If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story.” —Jim Hightower, national radio commentator and New York Times-bestselling author “Tell[s] the grand story of corporate corruption and its consequences for society with the force and readability of a great novel. ”—David C. Korten, bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674984820
The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice. In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to fulfill their citizens’ most basic needs without forgetting to contain how much the rich could tower over the rest. In the wake of two world wars and the collapse of empires, new states tried to take welfare beyond its original European and American homelands and went so far as to challenge inequality on a global scale. But their plans were foiled as a neoliberal faith in markets triumphed instead. Moyn places the career of the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift from the egalitarian politics of yesterday to the neoliberal globalization of today. Exploring why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside enduring and exploding inequality, and why activists came to seek remedies for indigence without challenging wealth, Not Enough calls for more ambitious ideals and movements to achieve a humane and equitable world.
Author : Andrew Fede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0820366293
"A Degraded Caste of Society uses antebellum US appellate court options and statues to illuminate "two competing criminal law doctrines that applied" to free Black people: "equal protection and unequal protection based on perceptions of race." These doctrines, Fede argues, "reflect the broader social conflicts between two competing legal cultures and legal consciousnesses. The legacy of these laws "continued to live on" until 2009 legislation made this sort of violence a federal crime. The unequal protection doctrine, which has its roots in the antebellum US, has a "long but not always completely acknowledged" or understood influence on criminal law in the United States"--
Author : Orville Vernon Burton,Armand Derfner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674975644
In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme CourtÕs race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly accelerating retreat from racial justice. From the Cherokee Trail of Tears to Brown v. Board of Education to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner shine a powerful light on the CourtÕs race recordÑa legacy at times uplifting, but more often distressing and sometimes disgraceful. For nearly a century, the Court ensured that the nineteenth-century Reconstruction amendments would not truly free and enfranchise African Americans. And the twenty-first century has seen a steady erosion of commitments to enforcing hard-won rights. Justice Deferred is the first book that comprehensively charts the CourtÕs race jurisprudence. Addressing nearly two hundred cases involving AmericaÕs racial minorities, the authors probe the parties involved, the justicesÕ reasoning, and the impact of individual rulings. We learn of heroes such as Thurgood Marshall; villains, including Roger Taney; and enigmas like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hugo Black. Much of the fragility of civil rights in America is due to the Supreme Court, but as this sweeping history also reminds us, the justices still have the power to make good on the countryÕs promise of equal rights for all.
Author : Doris Marie Provine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226684789
Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship, Unequal under Law lays out how decades of both manifest and latent racism helped shape a punitive U.S. drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been willfully ignored by Congress and the courts. Doris Marie Provine’s engaging analysis traces the history of race in anti-drug efforts from the temperance movement of the early 1900s to the crack scare of the late twentieth century, showing how campaigns to criminalize drug use have always conjured images of feared minorities. Explaining how alarm over a threatening black drug trade fueled support in the 1980s for a mandatory minimum sentencing scheme of unprecedented severity, Provine contends that while our drug laws may no longer be racist by design, they remain racist in design. Moreover, their racial origins have long been ignored by every branch of government. This dangerous denial threatens our constitutional guarantee of equal protection of law and mutes a much-needed national discussion about institutionalized racism—a discussion that Unequal under Law promises to initiate.
Author : Paul Gowder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107136892
A pathbreaking theoretical and empirical study proposing social equality as a measure of the rule of law.
Author : Elena Drymiotou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351579735
While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interprets this right in a new way. Theories of the right to equal protection of the laws as the right to anti-subordination are the most influential theories on the theory suggested by Drymiotou. Elena Drymiotou suggests understanding the right to equal protection of the laws in terms of belonging. She goes on to identify certain criteria and she offers a general theory of the Right to Democratic Belonging. This book uses political theory, constitutional provisions and case law to suggest this new theory of the right to equal protection of the laws; the theory of the Right to Equal Belonging in a Democratic Society or in other words, the Right to Democratic Belonging. Human Rights and Equal Belonging in a Democratic Society is the starting point of a more comprehensive theory of the right to democratic belonging. It will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to human rights and equality and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and students in the fields of human rights law, constitutional law and legal theory.
Author : Adam Cohen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780735221512
“Meticulously researched and engagingly written . . . a comprehensive indictment of the court’s rulings in areas ranging from campaign finance and voting rights to poverty law and criminal justice.” —Financial Times A revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years. In Supreme Inequality, bestselling author Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and exposes how, contrary to what Americans like to believe, the Supreme Court does little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged; in fact, it has not been on their side for fifty years. Cohen proves beyond doubt that the modern Court has been one of the leading forces behind the nation’s soaring level of economic inequality, and that an institution revered as a source of fairness has been systematically making America less fair. A triumph of American legal, political, and social history, Supreme Inequality holds to account the highest court in the land and shows how much damage it has done to America’s ideals of equality, democracy, and justice for all.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1564322637
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Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605095608
"Hartmann tells a startling story of the rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights as corporations use the Fourteenth Amendment to further their own agendas"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Peter W. Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 0779896548