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What is Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America about?
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 coun
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Steven H. Shiffrin
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691070230
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Law, Language Learning, Social Sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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