Democratic Rights : The Substance of Self-Government /

When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution. But did the court act undemocratically by overriding the rights of the majority of voters in...

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Autor principal: Brettschneider, Corey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Citizenship.
Civil rights.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. The Value Theory of Democracy
  • CHAPTER 2. Paradigmatic Democratic Rights and Citizens as Addressees of Law
  • CHAPTER 3. Democratic Contractualism: A Framework for Justifiable Coercion
  • CHAPTER 4. Public Justification and the Right to Privacy
  • CHAPTER 5. The Rights of the Punished
  • CHAPTER 6. Private Property and the Right to Welfare
  • CHAPTER 7. Judicial Review: Balancing Democratic Rights and Procedures
  • CONCLUSION. Democratic Rights and Contemporary Politics
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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