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UNINA9910779753503321 |
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Collins Ronald K. L. |
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Titolo |
On dissent : its meaning in America / / Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-06476-7 |
1-139-88796-3 |
1-107-50268-3 |
1-107-05427-3 |
1-107-05873-2 |
1-139-02401-9 |
1-107-05525-3 |
1-107-05746-9 |
1-107-05636-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Government, Resistance to - United States |
Dissenting opinions - United States |
Judicial opinions - United States |
Dissenters - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Informationis personae -- Prologue -- 1: From judicial dissent to peaceful protest -- 2: From civil to uncivil disobedience -- 3: Vagaries of violence -- 4: Dissent, Inc -- 5: Dissent and law's parameters -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- About the Informationis personae -- Select and annotated bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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America values dissent. It tolerates, encourages and protects it. But what is this thing we value? That is a question never asked. 'Dissent' is treated as a known fact. For all that has been said about it - in books, articles, judicial opinions, and popular culture - it is remarkable that no one has devoted much, if any, ink to explaining what dissent is. No one |
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has attempted to sketch its philosophical, linguistic, legal or cultural meanings or usages. There is a need to develop some clarity about this phenomenon, for not every difference of opinion, symbolic gesture, public activity in opposition to government policy, incitement to direct action, revolutionary effort or political assassination need be tagged dissent. In essence, we have no conceptual yardstick. It is just that measure of meaning that On Dissent offers. |
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