Madison's music : on reading the First Amendment /

"Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the stru...

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Main Author: Neuborne, Burt, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, [2015]
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading the First Amendment as a Poem
  • Why Reading the First Amendment Isn't Easy
  • Madison's Music : Lost and Found
  • The First Amendment as a Narrative of Democracy
  • Madison's Music Restored : Recovering Madison's Democracy-Friendly First Amendment
  • The Democracy-Friendly First Amendment in Action
  • Mr. Madison's Neighborhood
  • Divine Madness : Hearing Madison's Music in the Religion Clauses
  • The Costs of Ignoring Madison's Music : The Enigma of Judicial Review
  • Madison, the Reluctant Poet : How the Great Poem Almost Didn't Get Written.