The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond
Situating rights : an introduction to the nature of American rights / Richard Primus -- The emergence of the modern concept of a right in America : the contribution of Michel Villey / James H. Hutson -- The authority of rights at the American founding / John Phillip Reid -- Rights natural and civil...
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Charlottesville u.a.
University of Virginia Press
2007
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Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
Schriftenreihe: | Constitutionalism and democracy
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Zusammenfassung: | Situating rights : an introduction to the nature of American rights / Richard Primus -- The emergence of the modern concept of a right in America : the contribution of Michel Villey / James H. Hutson -- The authority of rights at the American founding / John Phillip Reid -- Rights natural and civil in the declaration of independence / Barry Alan Shain -- The creation, reconstruction, and interpretation of the Bill of Rights / Akhil Reed Amar -- The dilemma of declaring rights / Jack N. Rakove -- The limited horizons of Whig religious rights / A. Gregg Roeber -- The history of rights in early America / Gordon S. Wood -- Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The diversity of rights in contemporary ethical and political thought / Leif Wenar and Stephen Macedo -- The politics of rights talk, then and now / Rogers M. Smith |
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Beschreibung: | Situating rights : an introduction to the nature of American rights / Richard Primus -- The emergence of the modern concept of a right in America : the contribution of Michel Villey / James H. Hutson -- The authority of rights at the American founding / John Phillip Reid -- Rights natural and civil in the declaration of independence / Barry Alan Shain -- The creation, reconstruction, and interpretation of the Bill of Rights / Akhil Reed Amar -- The dilemma of declaring rights / Jack N. Rakove -- The limited horizons of Whig religious rights / A. Gregg Roeber -- The history of rights in early America / Gordon S. Wood -- Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The diversity of rights in contemporary ethical and political thought / Leif Wenar and Stephen Macedo -- The politics of rights talk, then and now / Rogers M. Smith. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XI, 337 S |
ISBN: | 0813926661 0-8139-2666-1 9780813926667 978-0-8139-2666-7 |