The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties by Alan Dershowitz
English | May 20th, 2025 | ISBN: 1641774401 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.87 MB
English | May 20th, 2025 | ISBN: 1641774401 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.87 MB
If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terrorist attack and indicated likely suspects, what preventive actions would be constitutionally authorized? Detention? Interrogation? Torture? What if the attack involved a weaponized virus? Should the government compel widespread inoculation that might kill hundreds of people while saving millions? What if an article describing how to circumvent the inoculation mandate was about to be published? Should censorship of the article be authorized?