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Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib

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The New Civil Liberties Consensus

The new civil liberties consensus won by the ACLU really often held the line during World War II. The Supreme Court upheld rights to contraception, abortion, asterisks and more recently gay marriage. In a way, this boils down to, did these interwar civil liberties advocates really produce modern constitutional liberalism? And I think the answer to a large extent is yes.

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