Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300173154)

This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history--abolitionism, women's suffrage, the labor and civil rights movements--courts now prefer to speak about the freedoms of association and speech. But the right of "expressive association" undermines protections for groups whose purposes are demonstrable not by speech or expression but through ways of being. John D. Inazu demonstrates that the forgetting of assembly and the embrace of association lose sight of important dimensions of our constitutional tradition.

Author: John D. Inazu
ISBN-10: 0300173156
ISBN-13: 9780300173154
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2012