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American rights : the Constitution in action / Walter Gellhorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gellhorn, Walter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages)
- Other Title:
- American Rights
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1961.
- Contents:
- Military control over civilians
- Habeas corpus and criminal procedure
- The right to counsel
- The use of confessions
- Search and seizure
- The prosecutor as the servant of justice
- Licensing of speech
- The hostile audience
- Labor union picketing
- The Smith Act: illegal advocacy
- The Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act)
- The Communist Control Act of 1954
- The right not to say what one does not believe
- The right not to say what one does believe
- The right not to say what one knows
- Movement within the United States
- Entrance into the United States
- Freedom to leave
- The course of past decisions
- Are Negroes different?
- A guess about the future.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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