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The U.S. Constitution in film : part of our national culture
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The U.S. Constitution in film : part of our national culture / Eric Kasper and Quentin Vieregge.
ISBN
9781498549110
9781498549127 (e-book)
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (315 pages).
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Print version: Kasper, Eric T. U.S. Constitution in film : part of our national culture. Lanham : Lexington Books, c2018 Politics, literature, & film.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2022
Series
Politics, literature, and film
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Congress : "The government's hands are tied"
The presidency : "I will shoulder all responsibility"
Supreme Court justices and federal judges : "That's not the way I read the law!"
The freedom of and from religion : "'There is no contradiction between faith and science ... true science!"
The freedoms of speech and press : "The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!"
The right to keep and bear arms : "You can get further with a kind word and a gun"
The rights of criminal suspects against police : "We need a reason to knock on this door!"
The rights of the criminally accused in court : "The whole trial is out of order!"
The rights of the convicted : "What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Equal protection of the law : "They call me Mr. Tibbs!"
Freedom and the right to privacy : "The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head"
The right to vote : "It was a war long before we got here".
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