While the clergy and human-rights advocates are trying to roll back repressive laws limiting civil liberties, the opposition politicians have another motive.
Lawyers across the country say they are beginning to respond, with court challenges likely to test President Bush's empowerment of the executive branch to limit civil liberties.
Therefore, I do not support the new measures that limit civil liberties.
Laws that have limited human liberties, can be overturned as there exists 'resources', e.g. lawyers who can present a case for social reform.
Nicholas I of Russia decided in 1825 not to be crowned king of Poland, and he continued to limit Polish liberties.
Both sides have tried to limit civil liberties and take civil rights away in times of war.
The Constitution does not give the government sweeping emergency powers to limit civil liberties.
As a result, the debates in Washington and state legislatures about limiting civil liberties to battle terrorism could be decisive because many of the new limits may never receive rigorous court review.
In place of this "politics of disgust", Nussbaum argues for the Harm principle from John Stuart Mill as the proper basis for limiting individual liberties.
It is not about limiting civil liberties or harassing consumers.