{"product_id":"how-rights-went-wrong-why-our-obsession-with-rights-is-tearing-america-apart-hardcover","title":"How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJamal Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJill Lepore\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST \"Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.\"--from the foreword by Jill Lepore, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThese Truths: A History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou have the right to remain silent--and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that holding a right means getting a judge to let us do whatever the right protects. And judges, for their part, seem unable to imagine two rights coexisting--reducing the law to winners and losers. The resulting system of legal absolutism distorts our law, debases our politics, and exacerbates our differences rather than helping to bridge them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs renowned legal scholar Jamal Greene argues, we need a different approach--and in \u003cem\u003eHow Rights Went Wrong, \u003c\/em\u003ehe proposes one that the Founders would have approved. They preferred to leave rights to legislatures and juries, not judges, he explains. Only because of the Founders' original sin of racial discrimination--and subsequent missteps by the Supreme Court--did courts gain such outsized power over Americans' rights. In this paradigm-shifting account, Greene forces readers to rethink the relationship between constitutional law and political dysfunction and shows how we can recover America's original vision of rights, while updating them to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAMAL GREENE is Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School and a former law clerk to Hon. John Paul Stevens, he was a reporter for \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1999-2002. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768412438816,"sku":"9781328518118","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d30f1d2560bc93c1978576d27abee6f8_d64c9e66-6d03-4626-a989-92f5a7ac2f1d.webp?v=1780329031","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-rights-went-wrong-why-our-obsession-with-rights-is-tearing-america-apart-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}