Changing Course: Civil Rights at the CrossroadsChanging Course traces the rise and fall of the civil rights movement in the United States. It locates the origins of the civil rights vision firmly in the intellectual soil of the American Revolution. This vision carried the day through the abolition of slavery to the triumph of equal opportunity in the 1960s. Throughout, Bolick argues, the efforts of the civil rights movement were rooted in principles of natural law, and anchored in concern for fundamental rights and equality under the law. Bolick explores the movement's sudden abandonment of those principles during the 1960s, and examines the nature and consequences of the revised civil rights agenda during the past two decades. The book is particularly timely, appearing in the midst of growing polarization over civil rights and at a time when both liberals and conservatives are grappling to set a course of action for the post-Reagan years. "Changing Course "identifies clearly real civil rights problems of today as government-erected barriers to entrepreneurial and educational opportunity as well as a vicious cycle of dependency and despair. Bolick outlines a vigorous course of action that would eliminate those barriers based on traditional principles of civil rights. The book provides an intellectual and practical framework for a positive alternative to the agenda of the present-day civil rights establishment. It challenges advocates of individual liberty to reclaim leadership in the quest for civil rights for all. |
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Civil Rights at the Crossroads Clint Bolick. Political Science Sociology Changing Course Civil Rights at the ... individual liberty to re- claim leadership in the quest for civil rights for all . ( Continued on back flap ) CHANGING COURSE ...
... rights animated the civil rights movement from the Declaration of Independence . to the abolition of slavery . to the guarantee of equal protection of the laws , to the demise of " Jim Crow " and the repudiation of " separate but equal ...
... individual dignity and autonomy . Specifically . the strategy should focus on eradicating what has historically constituted the greatest impedi- ment to civil rights — government action that violates fundamental rights or discriminates ...
Civil Rights at the Crossroads Clint Bolick. effort . Only then can we recapture the ... individual merit and ambition . but upon the most immutable . irrational ... rights . Part I THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN xiv Changing Course.
... rights . Society is thus a volitional entity that derives its existence from the consent of its constitu- ents . But the power of society is necessarily circumscribed by the law of nature since no individual possesses the right to ...
Contents
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Abolitionism The Quest for Freedom | 13 |
The Triumph of Opportunity | 31 |
The Quest Abandoned | 53 |
RECHARTING THE COURSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS | 79 |
Introduction to Part II | 81 |
The Failed Agenda | 84 |