Free speech has been treated as a preeminent constitutional right in the United States for more than half a century. The rights of property owners, on the other hand, have received little constitutional protection since the New Deal period of the 1930s. This modern dichotomy is particularly striking because it obscures an older constitutional tradition that equated economic liberty and freedom of expression. This tradition saw both property rights and speech rights as essential to the protection of personal freedom by (...) restraining the power of government. (shrink)

Remembering the year of 1989 does not always seem to produce a coherent narrative about the recent history of Romania. Most likely, when asked about their own experiences or what truly happened back then, Romanians would refer to it as “the events” because there still is a certain veil of ambiguity over their shared collective memory. The author’s personal encounters with such story tellers confirm that Romanians are still torn apart between various interpretations concerning what happened during December 1989.

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Title: Die Demokratische FragePublisher: SuhrkampISBN: 3518115723Author: Ulrich Rödel, Günter Frankenberg, Helmut Dubiel,Title: Autonome Gesellschaft und Libertäre DemokratiePublisher: SuhrkampISBN: 3518115731Author: Ulrich Rödel Title: Civil Society and Political TheoryPublisher: The MIT PressISBN: 0262031779Author: Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato.