TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackerman,Bruce A.
TI  - Before the next attack: preserving civil liberties in an age of terrorism 
SN  - 9780300112894 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - KF9430 AC182 2006
U1  - 342.73/062 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - United States
KW  - War and emergency legislation
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Law and legislation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; This is not a war -- This is not a crime -- This is an emergency -- The political constitution -- The role of judges -- American exceptionalism -- If Washington blows up? -- The morning after
N2  - Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents a practical alternative. He proposes an ʺemergency constitutionʺ that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while
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