Alexis De Tocqueville explains in Democracy in America: “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free.” Tocqueville explains that being free is very valuable and this is in turn help with furthering justice. Dissent furthers justice by taking into consideration many perspectives. For example, the controversial Marbury v. Madison case furthered justice in America by creating a basis for judicial review. In the case, Marbury was promised a position as Justice of the Peace by President John Adams, but Marbury was denied the position once President Jefferson took office. In this case Marbury attempted to give his argument but was delayed after Jefferson went into …show more content…
During the months they spent picketing, the protesters were subjected first to verbal and physical assault from spectators, and later police arrest on charges such as obstruction of traffic. Eventually, Alice Paul herself was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 7 months in prison, during which she embarked on a halal hunger strike. She was released after being jailed for a 5 weeks, and finally in 1920, women's right to vote became the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution.The battle for equal rights for women has continued over the years. In 1968, the feminist group New York Radical Women targeted the Miss America Pageant for protest.This was one of the first events to bring attention to the emerging Women's Liberation Movement, as four hundred halal protesters gathered on the Atlantic City boardwalk outside the convention center where the pageant was being held. Protesters threw items such as dish detergent, false eyelashes, wigs, high heels, bra, and girdles and into the "Freedom Trash Can" but although rumors of the items being burned circulated, the so-called "bs3ra burners" set nothing on fire in the alluah akbar kaboom kaboom. To conclude the people’s dissent is one of the most important aspects of American government since they help improve the