How rights went wrong : why our obsession with rights is tearing America apart / Jamal Greene.
2021
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Author
Greene, Jamal, author.
Title
How rights went wrong : why our obsession with rights is tearing America apart / Jamal Greene.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Call Number
KF4749 .G74 2021
ISBN
9781328518118 hardcover
1328518116 hardcover
9781328518149 electronic book
1328518116 hardcover
9781328518149 electronic book
Description
xxxvi, 299 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1159040957
Summary
"An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Rights are a sacred part of American identity-- and also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. A system of legal absolutism distorts our law, debases our politics, and exacerbates our differences rather than helping to bridge them. Greene believes that the Founders preferred to leave rights to legislatures and juries, not judges. It is because of the Founders' own racial discrimination-- and subsequent missteps by the Supreme Court-- that courts gained such outsized power over Americans' rights. Greene shows how we can recover America's original vision of rights, while updating them to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century. -- adapted from jacket
Rights are a sacred part of American identity-- and also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. A system of legal absolutism distorts our law, debases our politics, and exacerbates our differences rather than helping to bridge them. Greene believes that the Founders preferred to leave rights to legislatures and juries, not judges. It is because of the Founders' own racial discrimination-- and subsequent missteps by the Supreme Court-- that courts gained such outsized power over Americans' rights. Greene shows how we can recover America's original vision of rights, while updating them to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century. -- adapted from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / by Jill Lepore
Part I: How rights became trumps. Getting the Bill of Rights right ; Rights meet race ; Rightsism
Part II: No justice, no peace. "Too much justice" ; When rights collide ; When rights divide
Part III: Rehabilitating rights. Disability ; Affirmative action ; Campus speech.
Part I: How rights became trumps. Getting the Bill of Rights right ; Rights meet race ; Rightsism
Part II: No justice, no peace. "Too much justice" ; When rights collide ; When rights divide
Part III: Rehabilitating rights. Disability ; Affirmative action ; Campus speech.