We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such. In his new book, eminent legal scholar Michael Perry evaluates the grave charge that the modern Supreme Court has engineered a judicial usurpation of politics. In particular, Perry inquires which of several major Fourteenth Amendment conflicts--over race segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based discrimination, homosexuality, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide--have been resolved as they should have been. He lays the necessary groundwork for his inqui…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-515125-1
- EAN: 9780195151251
- Produktnummer: 22667573
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B16.5 cm x D1.5 cm 399 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 399
Über den Autor
Michael J. Perry holds the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University. From 1982 to 1997, he taught at the Nothwestern University School of Law, where he held the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law. Perry is the author of several books, including The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (Oxford, 1998), Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives (Oxford, 1997), The Constitution in the Courts:Law or Politics? (Oxford, 1994), and Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics (Oxford, 1991).
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