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Michael J. Perry - Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court

Av Michael J. Perry

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Beskrivning
In this important book, Michael J. Perry examines three of the most disputed constitutional issues of our time: capital punishment, state laws banning abortion, and state policies denying the benefit of law to same-sex unions. The author, a leading constitutional scholar, explains that if a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitution, it does not necessarily follow that the Court should rule that the law is unconstitutional. In cases in which it is argued that a law violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court must decide which of two importantly different questions it should address: is the challenged law unconstitutional? Is the lawmakers' judgment that the challenged law is constitutional a reasonable judgment? Perry not only illuminates moral controversies that implicate one or more constitutionally entrenched human rights, but also the fundamental question of the Supreme Court's proper role in adjudicating such controversies.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-11-10
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 410 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 266
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521755955
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Michael J. Perry holds a Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University, where he teaches in the law school. Previously, Perry held the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University, where he taught for fifteen years, and the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University. He has written on American constitutional law and theory; law, morality and religion; and human rights theory in more than sixty articles and ten books, most recently Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy (Cambridge, 2003) and Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts (Cambridge, 2007).

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Review of the hardback: 'Perry's book presents an elegant, comprehensive, but remarkably concise exposition of how human rights claims should be treated in constitutional adjudication. On the way, it offers a compelling recapitulation of the moral and legal arguments associated with three of the most contentious issues in American politics: capital punishment, abortion and same-sex marriage. Perry's discussions of these difficult questions are clear, smart, and painstakingly fair.' Richard S. Kay, University of Connecticut School of Law

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