Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781541616578)

From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook on standing up for fundamental civil liberties and resisting executive overreach -- named one of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year

What role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and defending liberty? Must we rely on the federal courts, and the Supreme Court above all, to protect our rights? In Engines of Liberty, the esteemed legal scholar David Cole argues that we all have a part to play in the grand civic dramas of our era -- and proposes specific tactics for fighting Donald Trump's policies.

Examining the most successful rights movements of the last thirty years, Cole reveals how groups of ordinary Americans confronting long odds have managed, time and time again, to convince the courts to grant new rights and protect existing ones. Engines of Liberty is a fundamentally new explanation of how our Constitution works and the part citizens play in it.

Author: David Cole
ISBN-10: 154161657X
ISBN-13: 9781541616578
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90d