“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century opens with this popular quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Chemerinsky’s plea to “develop and defend and fight for a progressive vision” of the Constitution. Chemerinsky describes the conservative vision of the Constitution as: · strongly pro-law enforcement, favoring the government and police over the constitutional rights of criminal defendants · powerfully pro-business, favoring the interests of corporations over those of employees and consumers · a vision regarding race discrimination as a thing of the past and opposing race-conscious actions to remedy the legacy of discrimination and achieve diversity · a vision rejecting the notion of separation of church and state · a vision strong...
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