Where do civil liberties come from?
Nadine Strossen is president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the youngest person and first female to hold this position. Additionally, she is a professor of law at New York Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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| 1. Do you feel that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) does an adequate job of protecting the civil liberties of Americans? Why or why not? |
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| 2. Do you feel that your civil liberties have ever been threatened? If so, provide an example. |
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Problems with the War on Terror
Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law. Prior to moving to NYU, he was the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Intellectual Life at Yale Law School, where he taught from 1998 to 2008.
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| 3. How does he describe the relationship between military action and the restriction of civil liberties? |
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| 4. Do the restrictions on civil liberties during the “War on Terror” seem similar to restrictions placed during the Cold War or World War II? How so? |
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