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In this work, which spans his entire career, as an expert on the justice system, Milton R. Konvitz analyzes the connections between the Torah and the American Constitution. He elaborates on the centrality of law both in America and in Judaism: the first bound to the Constitution and the Framers, the second bound to Revelation, expanding to a legal system fashioned and refashioned by human interpretation. Konvitz has long been considered a preeminent scholar on First Amendment rights, civil rights, and the law in America. These pieces, compiled here for the first time, gain new resonance as part of an ongoing theme-the accord of American democracy and the Jewish religious tradition.

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"A master of American and Jewish thought brings his broad know ledge and deep devotion to Jewish ideals to fashion this elegant and stimulating collection of essays. The two traditions are illuminated anew in their interplay as major influences on Western thought and contemporary life.-- ""Abraham J. Karp, professor emeritus of history and religion, University of Rochester"""

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Milton R. Konvitz, professor emeritus of industrial labor relations and of law at Cornell University, is the author of ten books, including The Constitution and Civil Rights, A Century of Civil Rights, Religious Liberty and Conscience, and Judaism and the American Idea, and he has edited thirteen other books, including First Amendment Freedoms, The Recognition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Judaism and Human Rights and Bill of Rights Reader.

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