Matters of Principle: Legitimate Legal Argument and Constitutional Interpretation - Couverture rigide

Markovits, Richard S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814755135 ISBN 13 : 9780814755136

Editeur : New York University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The United States is generally believed to be a liberal, rights-based culture. In such a society, according to Richard S. Markovits, arguments of moral principle dominate legal discourse.
Markovits analyzes various rights related to our society's basic duties of showing appropriate, equal respect for all creatures capable of moral integrity and appropriate, equal concern for their actualizing this potential. By taking moral- and legal-rights arguments seriously, the book counters the tendencies of legal academics to substitute non-right-focused policy analysis for rights analysis and of judges to indulge their own political preferences under the guide of executing arcane, morally-disconnected "legal analysis."
Ranging widely and covering in depth such flashpoint issues as educational rights, minimum real-income rights, privacy rights, abortion, parenting, sexual liberties, and the right to die, Matters of Principle is a deeply engaged and thoughtful work, certain to be controversial and much debated.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard S. Markovits is the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Texas, Austin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814755135
• ISBN 13: 9780814755136
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 466
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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