Culture of Rights - The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991

Klappentext New insights into the rights thinking and consciousness at the core of American political culture. Zusammenfassung Written by leading authorities in history! philosophy! jurisprudence and political theory! the essays in this volume provide 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: history, historicism, and the culture of rights; 1. From natural law to the rights of man: a European perspective on American debates; 2. The Bill of Rights and the American revolutionary experience; 3. Parchment barriers and the politics of rights; 4. Rights and wrongs: Jefferson, slavery and philosophical quandaries; 5. Practical philosophy and the Bill of Rights: perspectives on some contemporary issues; 6. The development of modern American legal theory and the judicial interpretation of the Bill of Rights; 7. The British, the Americans, and rights Appendix: the constitution and the Bill of Rights; About the authors; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michael James (Woodrow Wilson International Lacey, Michael James Haakonssen Lacey
• Collaboration: Knud Haakonssen (Editeur), Haakonssen Knud (Editeur), Lee H. Hamilton (Editeur), Michael J. Lacey (Editeur), Michael James Lacey (Editeur), Lacey Michael James (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 29.11.1991
• EAN: 9780521416375
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41637-5
• Pages: 484
• Thèmes: Woodrow Wilson Center Series; Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires; USA, History of Ideas, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights