"Selected and edited by Nancy Carr, Joseph Coulson, Anne Gendler, Mike Levine, Judith McCue"--(p. ii). "With generous support from Harrison Middleton University, a Great Books distance-learning college"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Should we fight terror with torture? / Alan Dershowitz. Hortensia's protest / Appian of Alexandria -- Letter XLVII / Seneca the Younger -- Magna Carta -- English Bill of Rights (selection) / Second treatise of government (selection) / John Locke -- The social contract (selection) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Declaration of Independence -- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -- Constitution of the United States of America (Preamble and Bill of Rights) -- State of the Union Address (selection) / Andrew Jackson -- Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (selection) -- Slavery on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan / Channing Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost -- Independence v. Swaraj / Mahatma Gandhi -- Gandhi's followers protest the salt tax / Webb Miller -- The Stalin epigram / Osip Mandelstam -- The arrest of Osip Mandelstam / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- I will bear witness (selection) / Victor Klemperer -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Harlem [2] / Langston Hughes -- Survival in Auschwitz (selection) / Primo Levi -- Defending freedom and freedom of speech / Luis Aguilar -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Rivonia trial: second court statement (selection) / Nelson Mandela -- Letter to Deng Xiaoping / Wei Jingsheng -- The censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- We say no / Eduardo Galeano -- A few remarks / Václav Havel, Stanislav Devdry, Jiri Krizan, Sasa Vondra -- Comrades / Nadine Gordimer -- The war and the law / Max Frankel -- Safeguard your lives / Jan Wong -- Red scarf girl (selection) / Ji-li Jiang -- My forbidden face (selection) / Latifa -- The Perplexities of the Rights of Man / Hannah Arendt -- The Cancer of Human Rights (selection) / John A. Gentry -- Promoting Human Rights / William F. Schulz -- Let's fight terrorism, not the Constitution / David Cole -- Confusing freedom with license / Douglas W. Kmiec -- Moral prohibition at a price / Michael Ignatieff -- Should we fight terror with torture? / Alan Dershowitz.
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