Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Assault on LibertyCondition: NewSubtitle: What Went Wrong with RightsEAN: 9780007293391ISBN: 9780007293391Publisher: Fourth Estate LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/19/2009Description: An urgent and necessary polemic on the government’s assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being pawned off cheaply in the name of security. At the same time, a whole range of novel, and comparatively trivial, rights are being handed out like sweets. Why? In the last 10 years the government has launched an unprecedented assault on our civil liberties. The loss of basic liberties has been replaced by a litany of new rights and the emergence of a new rights culture without any meaningful democratic oversight. This assault, and the parallel proliferation of rights, has warped the moral compass that guided the idea of fundamental rights throughout British history. But in whose name and to what end? In The Assault on Liberty, a radical polemic on the state of the nation, Dominic Raab, Chief of Staff to the Shadow Home Secretary, asks whether we can really defend our freedom by sacrificing it. The risks to Britain are real and likely to grow unless unchecked. Raab argues that the long-term risk is that the current approach will undermine the credibility of, and public support for, the very idea of fundamental rights in this country. He concludes that it is only a modern Bill of Rights that would offer a precious opportunity to review and repair our approach to rights, one of the pillars of our liberal democracy and would place these fundamental liberties in the correct context of the challenges facing Britain and its citizens in the 21st century.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 205gAuthor: Dominic RaabGenre: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Assault on Liberty
Publication Name: The Assault on Liberty
Title: The Assault on Liberty
Subtitle: What Went Wrong with Rights
EAN: 9780007293391
ISBN: 9780007293391
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/19/2009
Release Year: 2009
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 205g
Author: Dominic Raab
Genre: Law & Politics