You Can’t Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidisc

You Cant Say That The Growing brat to complaisant Liberties from Antidiscirmination Laws You Cant Say That is a truly important book, for it reminds us that no social revolution, even the most morally justified, is costless. The Civil Rights puzzle out of 1964 did indeed precipitate a social revolution, one that at pertinacious last began to deliver on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation. Over the intimately half-century since its passage much has changed in America, and for African-Americans that change has been both grievously overdue and remarkable in its sweep, although still very much a bailiwick in progress. However, this is not a book that catalogues the successes of the antidiscrimination movement that burgeoned in the energise of the 1964 Act, but rather an elegy to what must count on the other(a) side of the ledger, to what has been compromised in the noble quest for racial equality. In this liquid and accessible book, remarkably free from the lawyers propensity to show the laymen with a blizzard of case law, it is clear that the principal cost has been to runner Amendment values, sacrificed too cavalierly when they conflict with antidscrimination principles. One need only get word to the publisher of Bernsteins book, the Cato Institute, to see that the ideological landscape has been radically adapted since the 1960s, when New Deal liberals still dominated the left, and the First Amendment comprised the heart and somebody of their United States Constitution. Even earlier, before World War II, when Communists held sway on the left, the First Amendment was sacrosanct to Communists it was their second favorite native amendment, after the Fifth, prized as a stratagem to protect their freedom to subvert. For... ...orks most esteemed museums did not display enough art produced by women. Housing and urban Development officials used the Fair Housing Act amendments to intimidate region groups that sought to exerc ise their free speech rights to campaign against group homes for the disabled, speckle those charging discrimination have sometimes been allowed by courts to enter into evidence a defendants past political speech. These examples are the tip of Bernsteins iceberg. Even good causes can run amuck if fundamental constitutional principles are set aside noble ends can be compromised by hasty or tainted means. This book is a red flag, which we give the sack at our peril. Works CitedYou Cant Say That The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscirmination Laws by David E. Bernstein. Washington, DC CATO Institute, 2003, 197 pages, $20.00