The Rights Revolution - 2nd Edition

Klappentext List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments1: Introduction 2: The Conditions for the Rights Revolution: Theory 3: The United States: Standard Explanations for the Rights Revolution 4: The Support Structure and the U.S. Rights Revolution 5: India: An Ideal Environment for a Rights Revolution? 6: India's Weak Rights Revolution and Its Handicap 7: Britain: An Inhospitable Environment for a Rights Revolution? 8: Britain's Modest Rights Revolution and Its Sources 9: Canada: A Great Experiment in Constitutional Engineering 10: Canada's Dramatic Rights Revolution and Its Sources 11: Conclusion: Constitutionalism! Judicial Power! and Rights App: Selected Constitutional or Quasi-Constitutional Rights Provisions for the United States! India! Britain! and Canada Notes Bibliography Index Zusammenfassung Analyzing the growth of civil rights! this text examines the high courts of the United States! Britain! Canada and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts! arguing that the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Epp, Epp, Charles R. Epp, Epp Charles R.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.1998
• EAN: 9780226211626
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21162-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, England, Wales, Canada, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Courts, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, LAW / Trial Practice, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Human rights, civil rights, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general