American Language of Rights

Zusammenfassung This examination of three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century! the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) demonstrates how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew from opposition to specific political adversities. This study will be a major contribution to political theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Rights theory and rights practice; 2. History and the development of rights; 3. Rights of the founding; 4. Rights and reconstruction: syntheses and shell games; 5. Rights after World War II; Conclusion: rights and reasons; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A. Primus
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.1999
• EAN: 9780521652506
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65250-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education