The Constitution of rights : human dignity and American values / edited by Michael J. Meyer and William A. Parent
- Bib ID:
- 337448
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992
- viii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0801426502 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 080149950X (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Michael J. Meyer
- 1. Human Dignity as the Basis of Rights / Alan Gewirth
- 2. Dignity, Worth, and Rights / A. I. Melden
- 3. Constitutional Values and Human Dignity / William A. Parent
- 4. Constitutional Liberty, Dignity, and Reasonable Justification / David A. J. Richards
- 5. Dignity, Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment / Bernard R. Boxill
- 6. Equality and the Bill of Rights / Martha Minow
- 7. Justice Brennan, "Human Dignity," and Constitutional Interpretation / Raoul Berger
- 8. The Eighth Amendment, Human Dignity, and the Death Penalty / Hugo Adam Bedau
- 9. Speaking of Dignity / Frederick Schauer
- 10. The Right to Silence and Human Dignity / A. Kent Greenawalt
- 11. Human Dignity and Constitutional Rights / Louis Henkin
- 12. The Other Goldberg / Owen Fiss.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1992
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