The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond

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Barry Alan Shain
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Cover of: The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond
The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond
2007, University of Virginia Press
in English
Cover of: The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond
The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond
2007, University of Virginia Press
in English
Cover of: The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond (Constitutionalism and Democracy)
The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond (Constitutionalism and Democracy)
December 10, 2007, University of Virginia Press
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Table of Contents

Situating rights : an introduction to the nature of American rights / Richard Primus
The emergence of the modern concept of a right in America : the contribution of Michel Villey / James H. Hutson
The authority of rights at the American founding / John Phillip Reid
Rights natural and civil in the declaration of independence / Barry Alan Shain
The creation, reconstruction, and interpretation of the Bill of Rights / Akhil Reed Amar
The dilemma of declaring rights / Jack N. Rakove
The limited horizons of Whig religious rights / A. Gregg Roeber
The history of rights in early America / Gordon S. Wood
Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers
The diversity of rights in contemporary ethical and political thought / Leif Wenar and Stephen Macedo
The politics of rights talk, then and now / Rogers M. Smith.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Charlottesville
Series
Constitutionalism and democracy

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Dewey Decimal Class
342.7302/9
Library of Congress
KF4541 .N38 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL17912990M
ISBN 13
9780813926667
LCCN
2007017839
LibraryThing
4697339
Goodreads
2470863

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OL3478618W

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