Posner, Richard A.

Not a suicide pact : the constitution in a time of national emergency / by Richard A. Posner. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xi, 171 p. ; 22 cm. - Inalienable rights series .

Bibliogr.: p. [159]-164.

How are constitutional rights created? -- How does national security shape constitutional rights? -- Rights against detention -- Rights against brutal interrogation, and against searches and seizures -- The right of free speech, with a comment on "profiling" -- Rights of privacy.

9780195304275 (cloth) 0195304276 (cloth)

2006005345


Droits de l'homme--âEtats-Unis.
Sâecuritâe nationale--Droit--âEtats-Unis.

P855n 2006

342.7308/5