Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620970414 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ken Warner said A New Perspective on the First Amendment, and a Great Read. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the excitement of gaining a new perspective on things we hear and read about all the time, in this case the First Amendment and the fundamental rights it assures us -- freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly and of the right to petition. Richard D. Emery said UNDERSTANDING OUR ORIGINS. Legal training drives intelligence towards the norm: smart people are required to think within the legal paradigm, as are the less intelligent. Creativity is stifled in rich thinkers and mundane thinkers are given tools to allow them to, at least, sound some what learned. The truly brilliant--lik. "Burt Neuborne's MADISON'S MUSIC hits all the right notes when it comes to understanding the power of words" according to Cyrus Webb. I love learning new things, and when I went into Burt Neuborne's book MADISON'S MUSIC I was hoping that I would learn more about the Founding Fathers of the United States and the writing of the Constitution. I can say that I go so much more than that.What Neuborne does for ordinary folks like mys
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. For too long, we’ve been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. 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. Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. Neuborne gives us an eloquent lesson in democracy that informs and inspires.
"In the dark art of lawyering, Neuborne has always been considered a white knight."—New York