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Could the eye-opening NSA reports regarding accessing phone and electronic communications as well as the reaction to the Boston Bombing be setting into motion a chain of events of ominous significance? Should Americans be more concerned about security or liberty?
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Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
The erosion of national boundaries—and even the idea of the nation state—is already underway as people become ever more inter-connected across borders. A jungle of myth, falsehood and misrepresentation dominates the debate over immigration. In fact, the economic contributions of immigration far outweigh the costs.
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The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror
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The Power of Habeas Corpus in America tells the story of the writ from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to the writ's very nature as a government power.
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