Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law

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Date of publication:
03/29/2016

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110154

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How gay and lesbian couples # 8217; the right to marry to go from impossible to inevitable? As an individual right to bear arms, dismissed as fraudulent by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1990, became a constitutional right in 2008? And that led President George W. Bush to curb many of its initiatives in the fight against terrorism, before leaving his post, despite the former presidents had a free hand in the war? We are likely to answer this question, in each case, the Supreme Court altered our nation's # 8217, S as the most fundamental law.Yet awards jurist David Cole argues in freedom engines, civil society activists, are the true drivers of constitutional changes, Based on interviews with members of the most successful movements of the rights over the past 30 years, it shows that time and again, combining ordinary Americans faced long odds managed to turn the nation # 8217; s supreme law. And they did so mainly due to propaganda outside the federal courts altogether.We supporters of marriage equality witnesses in the 1980s and 1990s, bringing together for the strategy of state-based incrementalism, which paved the way for their historic victory of the Supreme Court. We see that the NRA is building a loyal and active membership base, which can swing elections and influence state and federal law, thereby generating a debate about guns in the Supreme Court. And we have seen how the civil liberties and human rights organizations are encouraging foreign population and the government to challenge the president when few domestic institutions will be.
By offering a new vision of the role we all play in shaping our Constitution and lighting tactics used successfully campaigned for reforms, Engines Freedom restores faith in the power of civil society activists, to help shape our nation # 8217; s future.

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