A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen Cambridge University Press, 1992 M11 27 - 474 páginas Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide new insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions. Based on the current state of scholarly understanding and intended to provide a fresh sense of orientation into the complexities of the separate topics covered, the studies focus on two distinct "moments" in the American experience: the eighteenth-century period of founding that produced the Bill of Rights as an element in the Constitutional settlement, and the contemporary moment, marked by a new historical consciousness of the difficulties of interpreting rights in changing contexts and thus by the continuing search for a properly grounded philosophical jurisprudence adequate to meet the ethical, social, and political conflicts of the present. |
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... claims have been high , ' and the importance of the objectives sought through the rhetoric of rights has not diminished over time . The major social movements of recent decades have been steeped in that rhetoric as evidenced in the ...
... claims have been high , ' and the importance of the objectives sought through the rhetoric of rights has not diminished over time . The major social movements of recent decades have been steeped in that rhetoric as evidenced in the ...
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... claims . Apart from the ideal of democratic self- government - itself often understood as a basic right - there is no more universal feature of politics in the late twentieth century than rights . Although talk about rights is common ...
... claims . Apart from the ideal of democratic self- government - itself often understood as a basic right - there is no more universal feature of politics in the late twentieth century than rights . Although talk about rights is common ...
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... claims of individualism . It is increasingly doubtful whether this characterization of liberalism is fair to John Locke , who was unquestionably influential in American life ; more to the point , it is clear from Haakonssen's opening ...
... claims of individualism . It is increasingly doubtful whether this characterization of liberalism is fair to John Locke , who was unquestionably influential in American life ; more to the point , it is clear from Haakonssen's opening ...
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... claims that is at issue . The Founders , Haakonssen suggests , rather unwittingly contributed to the mechanics of this process of secularization . The new civil order they established spurred its development , helping to usher in a more ...
... claims that is at issue . The Founders , Haakonssen suggests , rather unwittingly contributed to the mechanics of this process of secularization . The new civil order they established spurred its development , helping to usher in a more ...
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... claims to being old - fashioned and representing tra- dition , in some respects it is a recent phenomenon that grew up as a part of the reaction in recent decades against aspects of the rationale from which an innovating Supreme Court ...
... claims to being old - fashioned and representing tra- dition , in some respects it is a recent phenomenon that grew up as a part of the reaction in recent decades against aspects of the rationale from which an innovating Supreme Court ...
Contenido
From natural law to the rights of man a European perspective on American debates | 19 |
The Bill of Rights and the American Revolutionary experience | 62 |
Parchment barriers and the politics of rights | 98 |
Rights and wrongs Jefferson slavery and philosophical quandaries | 144 |
Practical philosophy and the Bill of Rights perspectives on some contemporary issues | 215 |
The development of modern American legal theory and the judicial interpretation of the Bill of Rights | 266 |
The British the Americans and rights | 366 |
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights | 440 |
About the authors | 461 |
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