Sex and the Constitution
Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
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Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today's fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity and no laws against abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters - including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, J. Edgar Hoover, Phyllis Schlafly, and Justice Anthony Kennedy - enlivens this landmark work, which dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the paradoxes and cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding.
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At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than 200 years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential history of free thought in America
- De Clark Savage en 11-27-17
De: Susan Jacoby
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Thy Kingdom Come
- An Evangelical's Lament
- De: Randall Balmer
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 7 h
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For much of American history, evangelicalism was aligned with progressive political causes: nineteenth-century evangelicals fought for the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, and public education. But contemporary conservative activists have defaulted on this majestic legacy, embracing instead an agenda virtually indistinguishable from the Republican Party platform.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical Reality
- De Cliff J en 08-10-07
De: Randall Balmer
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The Supremes' Greatest Hits, 2nd Revised & Updated Edition
- The 44 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
- De: Michael G. Trachtman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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The Supreme Court's rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and the right to a fair trial. This revised and updated edition of Michael G. Trachtman's riveting work includes 10 important cases from 2010 to 2015.
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Nice review overall.
- De "freeindeed4ever" en 02-10-20
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My Own Words
- De: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- Narrado por: Linda Lavin
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spectacularly Dry
- De CMP en 07-27-18
De: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, y otros
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The Supreme Court
- The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives. The Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overruled!
- De Stephen McLeod en 08-23-08
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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We Cannot Be Silent
- Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong
- De: R. Albert Mohler
- Narrado por: Anthony Grant
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Twenty years ago, not one nation on earth had legal same-sex marriage. Now, access to same-sex marriage is increasingly seen as a basic human right. In a matter of less than a generation, Western cultures have experienced a moral revolution. Dr. R. Albert Mohler examines how this transformation occurred, revealing the underlying cultural shifts behind this revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Gospel Truth!
- De angelgirl7 en 04-10-19
De: R. Albert Mohler
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The Constitution
- An Introduction
- De: Michael Stokes Paulsen, Luke Paulsen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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From war powers to health care, freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is shaped by the Constitution. This vital document, along with its history of political and judicial interpretation, governs our individual lives and the life of our nation. Yet most of us know surprisingly little about the Constitution itself, and are woefully unprepared to think for ourselves about recent developments in its long and storied history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Constitution-A must reading for All Americans
- De Robert en 06-12-15
De: Michael Stokes Paulsen, y otros
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
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It's Dangerous to Believe
- Religious Freedom and Its Enemies
- De: Mary Eberstadt
- Narrado por: Margaret Winston
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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In It's Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents how people of faith - especially Christians who adhere to traditional religious beliefs - face widespread discrimination in today's increasingly secular society. Eberstadt details how recent laws, court decisions, and intimidation on campuses and elsewhere threaten believers who fear losing their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms solely because of their convictions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not about Freedom of Religion
- De A. A. Gunnarsdóttir en 01-29-19
De: Mary Eberstadt
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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- De: Noah Rothman
- Narrado por: Noah Rothman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fighting the culture wars
- De Dee Arnold en 07-08-22
De: Noah Rothman
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How Rights Went Wrong
- Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
- De: Jamal Greene
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they were an afterthought for the Framers. Only as a result of the racial strife that exploded during the Civil War—and a series of resulting missteps by the Supreme Court—did rights gain such outsized power. Over and again, courts have treated rights conflicts as zero-sum games in which awarding rights to one side means denying rights to others. As eminent legal scholar Jamal Greene shows in How Rights Went Wrong, we need to recouple rights with justice—before they tear society apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A different way to look at rights.
- De Nicolas Pabon en 07-11-23
De: Jamal Greene
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Hitler's American Model
- The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
- De: James Q. Whitman
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Did not we suspect this?
- De dessa en 11-04-18
De: James Q. Whitman
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Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)
- The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage
- De: Stephen Prothero
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Though they may seem to be dividing the country irreparably, today's heated cultural and political battles between right and left, progressives and the Tea Party, religious and secular are far from unprecedented. In this engaging and important work, Stephen Prothero reframes the current debate, viewing it as the latest in a number of flashpoints that have shaped our national identity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Resistance to Change
- De Joanne en 04-07-16
De: Stephen Prothero
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Free Speech on Campus
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for understanding the 1st Amendment!
- De Kimberly Finnegan en 12-27-18
De: Erwin Chemerinsky, y otros
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We the People
- A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative Supreme Court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the US Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hypocritical evaluation of the constitution
- De surya en 03-23-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sex and the Constitution
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- David
- 08-03-20
Great and informative book.
This is a great book. The subject matter, sex, kept my interest in an otherwise dry topic (the constitution of the USA). The book helped me to learn about how the constitution was formed, how the supreme court works and how religion (mostly Christianity) has forced society to view sex for so long. I highly recommend it.
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- Joanne
- 06-28-17
Divisive Issues
This is a great presentation of how we got to where we are. Loved the detail of cases, with positions of judges, role of and impact on federal and state governments. Full of passions and emotional scars.
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- Osman Ouattara
- 07-04-18
Loved It
Great book!!! Although it was long, I didn't want it to stop towards the end.
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- Darrell Murray
- 02-27-20
Written with a Clear Agenda
Stone clearly crafts a story that is heavily biased. He attempts to ingratiate himself with the reader through arrogance of perceived authority. He side steps may of the most obvious contentions in his argument purporting that the justice system fails and is failing to support and defend the constitution. The system is broken. He argues against this point quite blind to the context required for a reasonable and balanced approach.
Overall, it was fun to mentally challenge his claims and affirmations, but misguided in terms of balance or conclusion.
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