Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism

A leading political and legal thinker explains how to end the dangerous cycle of repression unleashed by the war on terror

Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He proposes an “emergency constitution” that enables government to take extrao...