Mary Anne Franks
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Supreme Court term end: Why John Roberts went full MAGA.
Jul 8, 2024 ... She was joined by Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern; Mary Anne Franks, a professor at the George Washington University Law School; and Steve Vladeck, a ...
Fall Regionals 2024: Bookselling in an Election Year
Aug 16, 2024 ... ... Mary Anne Franks (Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment; Bold Type, Oct.). Although Philadelphians generally vote Democratic, the City of ...
We The People: Free Speech : Throughline : NPR
Jul 25, 2024 ... Mary Anne Franks, Professor at the George Washington University Law School and author of The Cult of the Constitution. To access bonus episodes and listen to ...
Books by Mary Anne Franks
“Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment” (2024)
A powerful debunking of First Amendment orthodoxy that critiques "reckless speech," which endangers vulnerable groups, and elevates "fearless speech," which seeks to advance equality and democracy.
“The Cult of the Constitution” (2019)
In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Constitution elevate certain constitutional rights above all others, benefit the most powerful members of society, and undermine the integrity of the document as a whole. The conservative fetish for the Second Amendment (enforced by groups such as the NRA) provides an obvious example of constitutional fundamentalism; the liberal fetish for the First Amendment (enforced by groups such as the ACLU) is less obvious but no less influential. Economic and civil libertarianism have increasingly merged to produce a deregulatory, "free-market" approach to constitutional rights that achieves fullest expression in the idealization of the Internet. The worship of guns, speech, and the Internet in the name of the Constitution has blurred the boundaries between conduct and speech and between veneration and violence.
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