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Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment

by (The New Press)

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"A detailed history of the transformation of First Amendment law" from one of the nation's foremost civil liberties lawyers (The New York Times).




Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights -- such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections -- but to guarantee that the process of democracy continues without disenfranchisement, oppression, or injustice.





Neuborne, who was the legal director of the ACLU and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, invites us to hear the "music" within the form and content of Madison's carefully formulated text. When we hear Madison's music, a democratic ideal flowers in front of us, and we can see that the First Amendment gives us the tools to fight for campaign finance reform, the right to vote, equal rights in the military, the right to be full citizens, and the right to prevent corporations from riding roughshod over the weakest among us. Neuborne gives us an eloquent lesson in democracy that informs and inspires.





"In the dark art of lawyering, Neuborne has always been considered a white knight." -- New York

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  • Publication Date: July 19, 2019
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  • Print Length: 272 Pages
  • File Size: 36 KB

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