A global political morality : human rights, democracy, and constitutionalism / Professor Michael J. Perry, Emory University School of Law.
2017
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Title
A global political morality : human rights, democracy, and constitutionalism / Professor Michael J. Perry, Emory University School of Law.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Call Number
KF4749 .P4334 2017
ISBN
9781107158511 (hardback)
1107158516 (hardback)
9781316611005 (paperback)
1316611000 (paperback)
1107158516 (hardback)
9781316611005 (paperback)
1316611000 (paperback)
Description
x, 197 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)963439351
Summary
"In A Global Political Morality, Michael John Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory, and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly global morality in human history. Perry also pursues the implications of the morality of human rights for democratic governance and for the proper role of courts - especially the US Supreme Court - in protecting constitutionally entrenched human rights. The principal constitutional controversies discussed in the book are capital punishment, race-based affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, and abortion"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
About the Author
ix
Introduction
1
pt. I
Morality of Human Rights
13
1.
What Are "Human Rights"?: Against the "Orthodox" View
15
2.
What Reason(s) Do We Have, if Any, to Take Human Rights Seriously?: Beyond "Human Dignity"
24
pt. II
From the Morality of Human Rights to Democracy, and to Certain Limitations on Democracy
43
3.
Three Pillars of Democracy: The Human Rights to Democratic Governance, Intellectual Freedom, and Moral Equality
45
4.
Democracy Limited: The Human Right to Religious and Moral Freedom
63
pt. III
Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism
89
5.
Theory of Judicial Review
95
6.
Theory Illustrated: Five Constitutional Controversies, Five Judicial Opinions
119
7.
Poverty as a Human Rights Issue: Constitutionalism-Related Reflections
165
Concluding Note: Human Rights Foundationalism
185
Index
187