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David Cole is the national legal director of the ACLU and the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. An award-winning author, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and the legal affairs correspondent for the Nation, he lives mostrar mais in Washington, DC. mostrar menos
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuinte, algumas edições514 cópias

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Main takeaways:
- The courts are only part of the way that constitutional law changes. How judges and justices view the law depends a lot on how the nation views the laws.
- Because of this, the effort to shift ideas needs to take place at a variety of other levels. Develop an academic background to reference. Do door-to-door campaigns and appeal to individuals with narratives that actually influence them. Win on a small scale - at the state. Win incrementally.
- The current interpretation of the 2nd amendment as supporting an individual right to bear arms is a modern interpretation. Before 2008 the supreme court had never recognized a constitutional right for the individual to bear arms. The perception changed because a devoted campaign by the NRA to establish the individual right in scholarship, in state laws since the 1970s was dramatically successful.
- This is an example about how nothing is set in stone. Fatalism is useless.

-"Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator facor fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope." - Roberto Unger and Cornel West
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