Unstable Weeping Wall

Author: Michael
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: When modern society reaches the Gordian knot of trying to unravel the issue of slavery or the right to die, the political process is often proven to be both powerless and unwilling to confront these complex problems. Thus, those lawyers step in as temporary agents. When legislators are unwilling or unable to legislate on these issues, the American people turn their attention to the judicial system. In the courtroom, the fundamental principles of democratic tradition are linked to the future. This book consists of eight landmark closing arguments from trials, spanning 250 years. These trial transcripts redefine American civil rights and profoundly impact American society. Over the past nearly three centuries, it is precisely because of the immortal contributions of these cases to the transformation of American culture, society, and the rule of law that civil rights have been protected. The closing argument materials of these trials are inaccessible to the general public, although most Americans are affected by the ongoing impact of these cases. Fortunately, from John Quincy Adams's presentation of the injustice of slavery to the center stage of American politics in the Amistad case, to Susan B. Anthony's ruling paving the way for women in public life, to Larry Flynt's case where the porn king becomes an accidental winner of freedom of speech, the author of this book presents the most important and most exciting closing arguments in American history.