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Free speech should be restricted / Mark Y. Herring -- Free speech should not be restricted / Mark Turiano -- Hate speech should be restricted / Richard Delgado and David Yun -- Hate speech should not be restricted / American Civil Liberties Union -- Flag burning as political speech should be restricted / Richard Parker -- Flag burning as political speech should not be restricted / Part I: Roger Pilon, Part II: Carole Shields -- The government should legislate against pornography / Catherine Itzin -- Pornography should not be restricted / Nadine Strossen -- A loss of privacy benefits society / Amitai Etzioni -- A loss of privacy harms society / Joseph S. Fulda -- More laws are needed to protect privacy / Cass R. Sunstein -- More laws are not needed to protect privacy / Jane E. Kirtley -- Random drug tests on student-athletes do not violate the right to privacy / Antonin Scalia ... [et al.] -- Random drug tests on student-athletes violate the right to privacy / Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens, and David Souter -- Wiretaps violate the right to privacy / Laura W. Murphy -- Wiretaps are necessary to fight crime / David Gelernter -- The Constitution's framers intended strict separation of church and state / Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs -- The Constitution's framers did not intend strict separation of church and state / M. Stanton Evans -- School prayer threatens religious liberty / Roger Simon -- Prohibiting school prayer threatens religious liberty / Linda Bowles -- Tax dollars should not fund religious schools / Bob Peterson -- Tax dollars should fund religious schools / Denis P. Doyle -- The Internet threatens the right to privacy / Nathaniel Sheppard Jr. -- The Internet's invasion of privacy is exaggerated / Joseph Burns -- Indecent material on the Internet should be censored / Shyla Welch -- Censoring indecent material on the Internet violates free speech / American Civil Liberties Union -- Computer encryption threatens public safety / Robert S. Litt -- Computer encryption codes are necessary to protect privacy / Part I: Peter Wayner, Part II: James P. Lucier.

Presents opposing viewpoints on issues relating to civil liberties, including privacy, freedom of the press, and censorship.