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| examples of dissent in history: Dissent Ralph Young, 2015-04-24 Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, emphasizing the way Americans responded to injustices Dissent: The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time: from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan in the seventeenth century, to the Occupy and Tea Party movements in the twenty-first century. The emphasis is on the way Americans, celebrated figures and anonymous ordinary citizens, responded to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. At its founding the United States committed itself to lofty ideals. When the promise of those ideals was not fully realized by all Americans, many protested and demanded that the United States live up to its promise. Women fought for equal rights; abolitionists sought to destroy slavery; workers organized unions; Indians resisted white encroachment on their land; radicals angrily demanded an end to the dominance of the moneyed interests; civil rights protestors marched to end segregation; antiwar activists took to the streets to protest the nation’s wars; and reactionaries, conservatives, and traditionalists in each decade struggled to turn back the clock to a simpler, more secure time. Some dissenters are celebrated heroes of American history, while others are ordinary people: frequently overlooked, but whose stories show that change is often accomplished through grassroots activism. The United States is a nation founded on the promise and power of dissent. In this stunningly comprehensive volume, Ralph Young shows us its history. |
| examples of dissent in history: This Radical Land Daegan Miller, 2018-03-22 “The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past—and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future. |
| examples of dissent in history: Dissent and the Supreme Court Melvin I. Urofsky, 2015-10-13 “Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike. —The Los Angeles Review of Books In his major work, acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and reinvigorate our democratic society. The Supreme Court has interpreted the meaning of the Constitution, acknowledged that the Court’s majority opinions have not always been right, and initiated a critical discourse about what a particular decision should mean before fashioning subsequent decisions—largely through the power of dissent. Urofsky shows how the practice grew slowly but steadily, beginning with the infamous and now overturned case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) during which Chief Justice Roger Taney’s opinion upheld slavery and ending with the present age of incivility, in which reasoned dialogue seems less and less possible. Dissent on the court and off, Urofsky argues in this major work, has been a crucial ingredient in keeping the Constitution alive and must continue to be so. |
| examples of dissent in history: Dissent in America Ralph F. Young, 2006 |
| examples of dissent in history: Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America Steven H. Shiffrin, 2000-07-10 Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country's major institutions--including the Supreme Court and the mass media--wrongly limit dissent. And he reflects on how society and the law should change to encourage nonconformity. Shiffrin is one of the country's leading first-amendment theorists. He advances his dissent-based theory of free speech with careful reference to its implications for such controversial topics of constitutional debate as flag burning, cigarette advertising, racist speech, and subsidizing the arts. He shows that a dissent-based approach would offer strong protection for free speech--he defends flag burning as a legitimate form of protest, for example--but argues that it would still allow for certain limitations on activities such as hate speech and commercial speech. Shiffrin adds that a dissent-based approach reveals weaknesses in the approaches to free speech taken by postmodernism, Republicanism, deliberative democratic theory, outsider jurisprudence, and liberal theory. Throughout the book, Shiffrin emphasizes the social functions of dissent: its role in combating injustice and its place in cultural struggles over the meanings of America. He argues, for example, that if we took a dissent-based approach to free speech seriously, we would no longer accept the unjust fact that public debate is dominated by the voices of the powerful and the wealthy. To ensure that more voices are heard, he argues, the country should take such steps as making defamation laws more hospitable to criticism of powerful people, loosening the grip of commercial interests on the media, and ensuring that young people are taught the importance of challenging injustice. Powerfully and clearly argued, Shiffrin's book is a major contribution to debate about one of the most important subjects in American public life. |
| examples of dissent in history: These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore, 2018-09-18 “Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come. |
| examples of dissent in history: Der Breslauer Froissart Arthur Lindner, 1912 |
| examples of dissent in history: A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn, 2003-02-04 Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. |
| examples of dissent in history: The True Flag Stephen Kinzer, 2017-01-24 The public debate over American interventionism at the dawn of the 20th century is vividly brought to life in this “engaging, well-focused history” (Kirkus, starred review). |
| examples of dissent in history: Silencing Political Dissent Nancy Chang, 2002-07-09 In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power. Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical review of political repression and intolerance of dissent in America. From the Sedition Act of 1798, through the Smith Act of the 1940s and the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, to the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, Chang recalls how during times of crisis and war, the U.S. government has unjustly detained individuals, invaded personal privacy, and hampered the free speech of Americans. Chang's expertise as a senior constitutional attorney shines through in the power and clarity of her argument. Meticulously researched and footnoted, Chang's book forces us to challenge the government when it is unpopular to do so, and to consider that perhaps our future safety lies in the expansion, rather the contraction, of the democratic values set forth in the Constitution. |
| examples of dissent in history: Insurgent Empire Priyamvada Gopal, 2019-06-25 How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal examines a century of dissent on the question of empire and shows how British critics of empire were influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies, from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India. In addition, a pivotal role in fomenting resistance was played by anticolonial campaigners based in London, right at the heart of empire. Much has been written on how colonized peoples took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. Insurgent Empire sets the record straight in demonstrating that these people were much more than victims of imperialism or, subsequently, the passive beneficiaries of an enlightened British conscience—they were insurgents whose legacies shaped and benefited the nation that once oppressed them. |
| examples of dissent in history: Icons of Dissent Jeremy Prestholdt, 2019 Author traces the development of shared global imagery and asks why the world has embraced these controversial figures |
| examples of dissent in history: I Dissent Mark Tushnet, 2008-06-01 For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions? In offering thirteen famous dissents-from Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education to Griswold v. Connecticut and Lawrence v. Texas, each edited with the judges' eloquence preserved-renowned Supreme Court scholar Mark Tushnet reminds us that court decisions are not pronouncements issued by the utterly objective, they are in fact political statements from highly intelligent but partisan people. Tushnet introduces readers to the very concept of dissent in the courts and then provides useful context for each case, filling in gaps in the Court's history and providing an overview of the issues at stake. After each case, he considers the impact the dissenting opinion would have had, if it had been the majority decision. Lively and accessible, I Dissent offers a radically fresh view of the judiciary in a collection that is essential reading for anyone interested in American history. |
| examples of dissent in history: The Great Dissenter Peter S. Canellos, 2022-06-28 The story of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to help enshrine our civil rights and economic freedoms. Dissent. No one wielded this power more aggressively than John Marshall Harlan, a young union veteran from Kentucky who served on the US Supreme Court from the end of the Civil War through the Gilded Age. In the long test of time, this lone dissenter was proven right in case after case. They say history is written by the victors, but that is not Harlan's legacy: his views--not those of his fellow justices--ulitmately ended segregation and helped give us our civil rights and our economic freedoms. Derided by many as a loner and loser, he ended up being acclaimed as the nation's most courageous jurist, a man who saw the truth and justice that eluded his contemporaries. Our Constitution is color blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens, he wrote in his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, one of many cases in which he lambasted his colleagues for denying the rights of African Americans. When the court struck down antitrust laws, Harlan called out the majority for favoring its own economic class. He did the same when the justices robbed states of their power to regulate the hours of workers and shielded the rich from the income tax. When other justices said the court was powerless to prevent racial violence, he took matters into his own hands: he made sure the Chattanooga officials who enabled a shocking lynching on a bridge over the Tennessee River were brought to justice. In this monumental biography, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Peter S. Canellos chronicles the often tortuous and inspiring process through which Supreme Courts can make and remake the law across generations. But he also shows how the courage and outlook of one man can make all the difference. Why did Harlan see things differently? Because his life was different, He grew up alongside Robert Harlan, whom many believed to be his half brother. Born enslaved, Robert Harlan bought his freedom and became a horseracing pioneer and a force in the Republican Party. It was Robert who helped put John on the Supreme Court. At a time when many justices journey from the classroom to the bench with few stops in real life, the career of John Marshall Harlan is an illustration of the importance of personal experience in the law. And Harlan's story is also a testament to the vital necessity of dissent--and of how a flame lit in one era can light the world in another. -- |
| examples of dissent in history: Dissent! Refracted Ben Dorfman, 2016-04-20 This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past. Taking a global perspective, the volume examines the history of dissent both inside and outside the West, through events in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both nearer to our own times as well as more distant, and through a range of styles reflecting how contested and pressing the problem of dissent in fact is. Drawing on a range of authors and international problematics, the contributions discuss the multiple ways in which we refract memories of dissent in cultural, historical and aesthetic context. It also discusses the diverse ideas, images and phenomena we use to do so. |
| examples of dissent in history: Revolutionary Dissent Stephen D. Solomon, 2016-04-26 When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other. Uninhibited dissent provided a distinctly American meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press at a time when the legal doctrine inherited from England allowed prosecutions of those who criticized government. Solomon discovers the wellspring in our revolutionary past for today's satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and protests like flag burning and street demonstrations. From the inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the political theater of Alexander McDougall, the liberty tree protests of Ebenezer McIntosh and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Solomon shares the stories of the dissenters who created the American idea of the liberty of thought. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America. |
| examples of dissent in history: The Great Dissent Thomas Healy, 2013-08-20 Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero. |
| examples of dissent in history: World Histories from Below Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne, 2022-02-10 History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing 'ordinary' people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it takes a global view of topics including political revolution, religious conversion, labour struggles and body politics. This 2nd edition includes two additional chapters on indigenous peoples, migration and environmental histories from below. With an updated preface, this enhanced text also includes additional images and case studies to grapple with themes that have more recently come to the fore, such as populism and the environment. Offering a study of these themes from 1750 to the present day, World Histories from Below refocuses our entire approach to teaching world history. |
| examples of dissent in history: End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama, 2006-03-01 Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world. —The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic. |
| examples of dissent in history: Brown v. Board of Education James T. Patterson, 2001-03-01 2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, I was so happy, I was numb. The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children! Here, in a concise, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954? |
| examples of dissent in history: The Leveller Revolution John Rees, 2017-11-14 The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men—including John Lilburne, Richard Overton and Thomas Rainsborough—and women who ensured victory and became an inspiration to republicans of many nations. From the raucous streets of London and the clattering printers’ workshops that stoked the uprising, to the rank and file of the New Model Army and the furious Putney debates where the Levellers argued with Oliver Cromwell for the future of English democracy, this story reasserts the revolutionary nature of the 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this pivotal moment in history. In particular Rees places the Levellers at the centre of the debates of 1647 when the nation was gripped by the question of what to do with the defeated Charles I. Without the Levellers and Agitators’ fortitude and well-organised opposition history may have avoided the regicide and missed its revolutionary moment. The legacy of the Levellers can be seen in the modern struggles for freedom and democracy across the world. |
| examples of dissent in history: Reconsidering Reparations Olúfhemi O. Táíwò, 2022 Christopher Columbus' voyage changed the world forever because the era of racial slavery and colonialism that it started built the world in the first place. The irreversible environmental damage of history's first planet-sized political and economic system is responsible for our present climate crisis. Reparations calls for us to make the world over again: this time, justly. The project of reparations and racial justice in the 21st century must take climate justice head on. The book develops arguments about the role of racial capitalism in global politics, addresses other views of reparations, and summarizes perspectives on environmental racism-- |
| examples of dissent in history: The Other America Michael Harrington, 1997-08 Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups. |
| examples of dissent in history: Dissenting Voices in American Society Austin Sarat, 2012-01-31 Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It brings together under the lens of critical examination dissenting voices that are usually treated separately: the protester, the academic critic, the intellectual, and the dissenting judge. It examines the forms of dissent that institutions make possible and those that are discouraged or domesticated. This book also describes the kinds of stories that dissenting voices try to tell and the narrative tropes on which those stories depend. This book is the product of an integrated series of symposia at the University of Alabama School of Law. These symposia bring leading scholars into colloquy with faculty at the law school on subjects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in law. |
| examples of dissent in history: All-American Nativism Daniel Denvir, 2020-01-14 American history told from the vantage of immigration politics It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to block foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. But although his actions may often seem unprecedented, they are not as unusual as many people believe. This story doesn’t begin with Trump. For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies, declaring time and again that “illegal immigration” is a threat to the nation’s security, wellbeing, and future. The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people, Trump began to look reasonable. As Daniel Denvir argues, issues as diverse as austerity economics, free trade, mass incarceration, the drug war, the contours of the post 9/11 security state, and, yes, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project. All-American Nativism provides a powerful and impressively researched account of the long but often forgotten history that gave us Donald Trump. |
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| examples of dissent in history: Voices of a People's History of the United States Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, 2011-01-04 Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience. |
| examples of dissent in history: The Dignity of Chartism Dorothy Thompson, 2015-06-09 This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is understood. Reclaiming Chartism as a fully-blown working-class movement, Thompson intertwines her penetrating analyses of class with ground-breaking research uncovering the role played by women in the movement. Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between down-to-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well as rank-and-file men and women, and more theoretical, polemical interventions. Of particular historical and political significance is the previously unpublished substantial essay co-authored by Dorothy and Edward Thompson, a superb piece of local historical research by two social historians then on the brink of notable careers. |
| examples of dissent in history: The Price of Dissent Bud Schultz, Ruth Schultz, 2001-11-06 Focuses on the activists in three of the most dramatic, sustained social movements of the twentieth century: the labor, civil rights, and antiwar movements. Provides an overview and brief history of each of these movements. Activists in each of these movements recall the courage needed to stand up to resistance from the police and the government (from the FBI to Congress and the White House), and the struggle to overcome violence and accusations of treachery and subversion. |
| examples of dissent in history: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2022-07-19 A collection of key dissenting and majority opinions from U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During her 27 years as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became well known for her strongly worded dissenting opinions against the decisions of the conservative majority. Ginsburg was a fierce supporter of women’s rights whose personal experiences helped shape her into a feminist icon who employed logical, well-presented arguments to show that gender discrimination was harmful to all members of society. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents features 15 legal opinions and briefs, including majority and dissenting opinions that Ginsburg drafted during her time on the U.S. Supreme Court and briefs from her career before she was appointed to the court in 1993. |
| examples of dissent in history: Hitler's Compromises Nathan Stoltzfus, 2016-07-12 History has focused on Hitler’s use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing the surprisingly frequent tactical compromises Hitler made in order to preempt hostility and win the German people’s complete fealty. As part of his strategy to secure a “1,000-year Reich,” Hitler sought to convince the German people to believe in Nazism so they would perpetuate it permanently and actively shun those who were out of step with society. When widespread public dissent occurred at home—which most often happened when policies conflicted with popular traditions or encroached on private life—Hitler made careful calculations and acted strategically to maintain his popular image. Extending from the 1920s to the regime’s collapse, this revealing history makes a powerful and original argument that will inspire a major rethinking of Hitler’s rule. |
| examples of dissent in history: Free Enterprise Lawrence B. Glickman, 2019-08-20 An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, free enterprise has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how the idea first gained traction in American discourse and was championed by opponents of the New Deal. Those politicians, believing free enterprise to be a fundamental American value, held it up as an antidote to a liberalism that they maintained would lead toward totalitarian statism. Tracing the use of the concept of free enterprise, Glickman shows how it has both constrained and transformed political dialogue. He presents a fascinating look into the complex history, and marketing, of an idea that forms the linchpin of the contemporary opposition to government regulation, taxation, and programs such as Medicare. |
| examples of dissent in history: The Art of Protest Jo Rippon, 2020-03-03 Presented in collaboration with Amnesty International, this stunning collection of more than a hundred posters charts a visual journey across more than a century of political and social activism. From the suffragettes of the early twentieth century to the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary, social-media-driven demonstrations of dissent and resistance, this illustrative history features iconic art from the archives of Amnesty International, work by world-renowned artists, and spontaneous posters from short-lived print collectives and activists on the ground. The Art of Protest covers key campaigns, global and local, including the refugee and climate crises, women's empowerment, nuclear disarmament, LGBTQ activism, Black Lives Matter, and issues around war and the misuse of the world's resources. These are images that have pushed boundaries as they give voice to the marginalized and confront those who would deny people their rights to peace and equality. |
| examples of dissent in history: A Letter Concerning Toleration. By John Locke, Esq John Locke, 1796 |
| examples of dissent in history: Extraordinary Politics Charles Euchner, 2019-08-28 When dissidents and activists toppled powerful regimes across the globe in the 1980s and 1990s?from the Soviet Union to South Africa, from Nicaragua to the Philippines?how did Americans respond to challenges in their own country? The conventional wisdom is that Americans sullenly withdrew from all manner of political action. But in fact, activists |
| examples of dissent in history: The American Democracy Alexis de Toqueville, 2020-12-17 The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Also, Tocqueville speculates on the future of democracy in the United States, discussing possible threats to democracy and possible dangers of democracy. These include his belief that democracy has a tendency to degenerate into soft despotism as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. He observes that the strong role religion played in the United States was due to its separation from the government, a separation all parties found agreeable. Tocqueville also outlines the possible excesses of passion for equality among men, foreshadowing the totalitarian states of the twentieth century as well as the severity of contemporary political correctness. |
| examples of dissent in history: Caste Isabel Wilkerson, 2023-02-14 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. |
| examples of dissent in history: Homer Simpson Marches on Washington Timothy M. Dale, Joseph J. Foy, 2010-03-19 A volume of enlightening essays on how TV shows, movies, and music can change hearts and minds. Amid all its frenetic humor, the long-running animated hit The Simpsons has often questioned what is culturally acceptable, wading into controversial subjects like gay rights, the war on terror, religion, and animal rights. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores the transformative power that enables popular culture to influence political agendas, frame the consciousness of audiences, and create profound shifts in values and ideals. To investigate the full spectrum of popular culture in a democratic society, editors Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy gather a top-notch team of scholars who use television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, All in the Family, The View, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, as well as movies and popular music, to investigate contemporary issues in American popular culture. |
| examples of dissent in history: Politics and the English Language George Orwell, 2021-01-01 George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times |
| examples of dissent in history: Steady Work Irving Howe, 1966 |
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In this unit you will study patterns of dissent and some protest movements in Indian states. The history of human civilisation is marked by “dissents” and “protests” within human relationships …
Janus and the Movement Dissent - Yale University
This paper examines Justice Kagan’s 2018 dissent in Janus v. AFSCME to illustrate how incisive, bold, and creative dissents can bolster ordinary citizens seeking constitutional change.
Dissents in the Early Court - History
Dissents play an important role within the judicial system. A Justice voicing, drafting, and publishing their disagreement with the majority opinion may be able to persuade other justices to join their …
A Divided Front: Military Dissent During the Vietnam War
GI resistance to the Vietnam War began in 1965 similar to a ripple; it started with “individual acts of conscience,” but then spread into collective acts of organized dissent within the ranks.6 The …
Dissent and conscientious objectors - New Zealand History
to make examples of those who refused to ‘do their duty’. Conscripted men who refused military service were known as ‘conscientious objectors’, because their refusal to serve was based on …
A.P. World History Themes: InSPECT - WHAP Central
Environments shape societies, and as population grows and changes, people in turn shape their environments. “The State” in this context is any government that exerts authority over people in …
Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents by …
print dissents are published routinely, oral dissents are not systematically tracked. This article presents the results of an AALL grant-funded project to locate oral dissents issued from October …
THE VALUE OF DISSENT - Corte IDH
One of the latest fashions in suppressing dissent is to claim that the right to dissent is a purely Western value. It is therefore out of place in the rest of the world. Worse than that, dissenters are …
Barbara J. Falk1 The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of Dissent: …
The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of Dissent: From State to Global Action Abstract This chapter provides a thematic introduction to the political philosophy and intellectual history of dissent, …
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Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the present …
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in …
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, specifically …
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Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the present …
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Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the present …
Learning from History: Why We Need Dissent and Dissidents
that dissent a a technical to sites taboo Falun movement, for state 244 2008-09 Falk learn engage) the democracies, muchabout a dissidents. visited recent David relaxation will China; to is …
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Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the present …
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Within the pages of "Examples Of Dissent In History," an enthralling opus penned by a highly acclaimed wordsmith, readers attempt an immersive expedition to unravel the intricate …
FROM CONSENSUS TO COLLEGIALITY - Harvard Law …
Warren Court that the modern “respectful” dissent first appeared. This dynamic history suggests that the development of language and rhetoric in judicial dissents is not arbitrary. Rather, there …
Dissent: The History of an American Idea A People s History …
the present United States, suggesting all along the way that American history is, by definition, a history of dissent. For Young, it is the sine qua non of po-litical life in the United States, an …
Examples Of Dissent In History (Download Only)
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
UNIT 8 PATTERNS OF DISSENT AND PROTEST …
In this unit you will study patterns of dissent and some protest movements in Indian states. The history of human civilisation is marked by “dissents” and “protests” within human relationships …
Janus and the Movement Dissent - Yale University
This paper examines Justice Kagan’s 2018 dissent in Janus v. AFSCME to illustrate how incisive, bold, and creative dissents can bolster ordinary citizens seeking constitutional change.
Dissents in the Early Court - History
Dissents play an important role within the judicial system. A Justice voicing, drafting, and publishing their disagreement with the majority opinion may be able to persuade other justices …
A Divided Front: Military Dissent During the Vietnam War
GI resistance to the Vietnam War began in 1965 similar to a ripple; it started with “individual acts of conscience,” but then spread into collective acts of organized dissent within the ranks.6 The …
Dissent and conscientious objectors - New Zealand History
to make examples of those who refused to ‘do their duty’. Conscripted men who refused military service were known as ‘conscientious objectors’, because their refusal to serve was based on …
A.P. World History Themes: InSPECT - WHAP Central
Environments shape societies, and as population grows and changes, people in turn shape their environments. “The State” in this context is any government that exerts authority over people …
Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents by …
print dissents are published routinely, oral dissents are not systematically tracked. This article presents the results of an AALL grant-funded project to locate oral dissents issued from …
THE VALUE OF DISSENT - Corte IDH
One of the latest fashions in suppressing dissent is to claim that the right to dissent is a purely Western value. It is therefore out of place in the rest of the world. Worse than that, dissenters …
Barbara J. Falk1 The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of …
The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of Dissent: From State to Global Action Abstract This chapter provides a thematic introduction to the political philosophy and intellectual history of dissent, …
Examples Of Dissent In History Full PDF - archive.ncarb.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in …
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, …
Examples Of Dissent In History [PDF] - mira.fortuitous.com
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Examples Of Dissent In History - cie-advances.asme.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Learning from History: Why We Need Dissent and Dissidents
that dissent a a technical to sites taboo Falun movement, for state 244 2008-09 Falk learn engage) the democracies, muchabout a dissidents. visited recent David relaxation will China; …
Examples Of Dissent In History [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Examples Of Dissent In History (PDF) - cie-advances.asme.org
Within the pages of "Examples Of Dissent In History," an enthralling opus penned by a highly acclaimed wordsmith, readers attempt an immersive expedition to unravel the intricate …
FROM CONSENSUS TO COLLEGIALITY - Harvard Law Review
Warren Court that the modern “respectful” dissent first appeared. This dynamic history suggests that the development of language and rhetoric in judicial dissents is not arbitrary. Rather, there …
Dissent: The History of an American Idea A People s History …
the present United States, suggesting all along the way that American history is, by definition, a history of dissent. For Young, it is the sine qua non of po-litical life in the United States, an …
Examples Of Dissent In History (Download Only)
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
UNIT 8 PATTERNS OF DISSENT AND PROTEST MOVEMENTS …
In this unit you will study patterns of dissent and some protest movements in Indian states. The history of human civilisation is marked by “dissents” and “protests” within human relationships …
Janus and the Movement Dissent - Yale University
This paper examines Justice Kagan’s 2018 dissent in Janus v. AFSCME to illustrate how incisive, bold, and creative dissents can bolster ordinary citizens seeking constitutional change.
Dissents in the Early Court - History
Dissents play an important role within the judicial system. A Justice voicing, drafting, and publishing their disagreement with the majority opinion may be able to persuade other justices …
A Divided Front: Military Dissent During the Vietnam War
GI resistance to the Vietnam War began in 1965 similar to a ripple; it started with “individual acts of conscience,” but then spread into collective acts of organized dissent within the ranks.6 The …
Dissent and conscientious objectors - New Zealand History
to make examples of those who refused to ‘do their duty’. Conscripted men who refused military service were known as ‘conscientious objectors’, because their refusal to serve was based on …
A.P. World History Themes: InSPECT - WHAP Central
Environments shape societies, and as population grows and changes, people in turn shape their environments. “The State” in this context is any government that exerts authority over people …
Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents by …
print dissents are published routinely, oral dissents are not systematically tracked. This article presents the results of an AALL grant-funded project to locate oral dissents issued from …
THE VALUE OF DISSENT - Corte IDH
One of the latest fashions in suppressing dissent is to claim that the right to dissent is a purely Western value. It is therefore out of place in the rest of the world. Worse than that, dissenters …
Barbara J. Falk1 The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of …
The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of Dissent: From State to Global Action Abstract This chapter provides a thematic introduction to the political philosophy and intellectual history of dissent, …
Examples Of Dissent In History Full PDF - archive.ncarb.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in …
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, …
Examples Of Dissent In History [PDF] - mira.fortuitous.com
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Examples Of Dissent In History - cie-advances.asme.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Learning from History: Why We Need Dissent and …
that dissent a a technical to sites taboo Falun movement, for state 244 2008-09 Falk learn engage) the democracies, muchabout a dissidents. visited recent David relaxation will China; …
Examples Of Dissent In History [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Examples Of Dissent In History (PDF) - cie-advances.asme.org
Within the pages of "Examples Of Dissent In History," an enthralling opus penned by a highly acclaimed wordsmith, readers attempt an immersive expedition to unravel the intricate …
FROM CONSENSUS TO COLLEGIALITY - Harvard Law Review
Warren Court that the modern “respectful” dissent first appeared. This dynamic history suggests that the development of language and rhetoric in judicial dissents is not arbitrary. Rather, there …
Dissent: The History of an American Idea A People s History …
the present United States, suggesting all along the way that American history is, by definition, a history of dissent. For Young, it is the sine qua non of po-litical life in the United States, an …
Examples Of Dissent In History (Download Only)
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
UNIT 8 PATTERNS OF DISSENT AND PROTEST MOVEMENTS …
In this unit you will study patterns of dissent and some protest movements in Indian states. The history of human civilisation is marked by “dissents” and “protests” within human relationships …
Janus and the Movement Dissent - Yale University
This paper examines Justice Kagan’s 2018 dissent in Janus v. AFSCME to illustrate how incisive, bold, and creative dissents can bolster ordinary citizens seeking constitutional change.
Dissents in the Early Court - History
Dissents play an important role within the judicial system. A Justice voicing, drafting, and publishing their disagreement with the majority opinion may be able to persuade other justices …
A Divided Front: Military Dissent During the Vietnam War
GI resistance to the Vietnam War began in 1965 similar to a ripple; it started with “individual acts of conscience,” but then spread into collective acts of organized dissent within the ranks.6 The …
Dissent and conscientious objectors - New Zealand History
to make examples of those who refused to ‘do their duty’. Conscripted men who refused military service were known as ‘conscientious objectors’, because their refusal to serve was based on …
A.P. World History Themes: InSPECT - WHAP Central
Environments shape societies, and as population grows and changes, people in turn shape their environments. “The State” in this context is any government that exerts authority over people …
Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents by …
print dissents are published routinely, oral dissents are not systematically tracked. This article presents the results of an AALL grant-funded project to locate oral dissents issued from …
THE VALUE OF DISSENT - Corte IDH
One of the latest fashions in suppressing dissent is to claim that the right to dissent is a purely Western value. It is therefore out of place in the rest of the world. Worse than that, dissenters …
Barbara J. Falk1 The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of …
The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of Dissent: From State to Global Action Abstract This chapter provides a thematic introduction to the political philosophy and intellectual history of dissent, …
Examples Of Dissent In History Full PDF - archive.ncarb.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in …
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, …
Examples Of Dissent In History [PDF] - mira.fortuitous.com
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Examples Of Dissent In History - cie-advances.asme.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Learning from History: Why We Need Dissent and …
that dissent a a technical to sites taboo Falun movement, for state 244 2008-09 Falk learn engage) the democracies, muchabout a dissidents. visited recent David relaxation will China; …
Examples Of Dissent In History [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
Examples Of Dissent In History: Dissent Ralph Young,2017-11-07 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States focusing on those who from colonial times to the …
Examples Of Dissent In History (PDF) - cie-advances.asme.org
Within the pages of "Examples Of Dissent In History," an enthralling opus penned by a highly acclaimed wordsmith, readers attempt an immersive expedition to unravel the intricate …
