In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours-liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dear-such as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incrimination-is destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.
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ISBN:9780307396068
ISBN:076152553X
Physical Description:xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm print
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-224) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The new robber barons -- The law as shield: The rights of Englishmen -- The law as weapon: The trial of Nikolai Bukharin -- How the law was lost -- Crimes without intent -- Retroactive law -- Reinventing torture -- Turning lawyers into government spies: The demise of the attorney-client privilege -- Privilege trumping rights -- Forfeiting justice -- Ambition over justice -- Abdicating legislative power -- What is to be done?
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