The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond /
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2007
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| Series: | Constitutionalism and democracy
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Table of Contents:
- 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