01384 a2200205 4500 26813 26813 9781107502680 322.40973 COL-O Collins, Ronald K.L. Skover, David M. On Dissent : Its Meaning in America Cambridge University Press 2015 200, pp. America 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. Judicial opinions Dissenting opinions Dissenters--Legal status, laws, etc United States Government, Resistance to ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2021-04-13 Overseas Press India Private Limited 995.47 2021-03-08 0 322.40973 COL-O 51531 2021-04-13 00:00:00 1402.08 2021-04-13 BK