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100			_aCollins, Ronald K.L.
100			_aSkover, David M.
245			_aOn Dissent _b : Its Meaning in America
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2015
300			_a200, pp.
520			_aAmerica values dissent. It tolerates, encourages and protects it. But what is this thing we value? That is a question never asked. 'Dissent' is treated as a known fact. For all that has been said about it - in books, articles, judicial opinions, and popular culture - it is remarkable that no one has devoted much, if any, ink to explaining what dissent is. No one has attempted to sketch its philosophical, linguistic, legal or cultural meanings or usages. There is a need to develop some clarity about this phenomenon, for not every difference of opinion, symbolic gesture, public activity in opposition to government policy, incitement to direct action, revolutionary effort or political assassination need be tagged dissent. In essence, we have no conceptual yardstick. It is just that measure of meaning that On Dissent offers.
650			_aJudicial opinions
650			_aDissenting opinions
650			_aDissenters--Legal status, laws, etc
650			_aUnited States
650			_aGovernment, Resistance to
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