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Justice is simultaneously a practical and an ideal concept: when we think of justice, we refer to its day-to-day administration, involving police, lawyers, judges, and politicians-but we also refer to a larger ideal, a set of basic values that guide our attempts to live together and balance competin...

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Autor principal: Colombo, Gherardo (Autor)
Otros Autores: Foqué, René (Contribuidor), Zoni, Elisabetta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction: Gherardo Colombo's Concern for the Democratic State under the Rule of Law: A Work in Progress
  • 1. An Imaginary Country
  • Contents
  • Part I. The Ambiguities of Justice
  • 2. Law and Justice
  • 3. Laws Differing in Time and Space
  • 4. 'Justice' is an Ambiguous Word
  • 5. Law Comes From God
  • 6. Law is Just If It is 'Natural'
  • 7. Law is Just When It Exists
  • 8. From Subject to Citizen
  • Part II. Horizontal Society and Vertical Society
  • 9. The Vertical Society
  • 10. The Horizontal Society
  • 11. Structure of the Two Models
  • 12. Consequences of the Vertical Society
  • 13. Consequences of the Horizontal Society
  • 14. Fundamental Rights According to the Two Models
  • 15. Sanctions According to the Vertical Model
  • 16. The Consequences to Offences in the Horizontal Society
  • 17. Victim and Offender
  • 18. Limits to Personal Liberty
  • 19. Vertical Society, Horizontal Society, Ideology and Religion
  • Part III. Towards a Horizontal Society
  • 20. An Attempt to Justify Law at the End of the Second Millennium
  • 21. The Limits of International Rules
  • 22. An Attempt at Creating a Horizontal Society: the Italian Constitution
  • 23. The Person Comes First
  • 24. What is Missing?
  • 25. Uncertainties in the Constitutional Process
  • 26. Culture
  • 27. The Interests of Those Who Oppose the Horizontal Society
  • 28. Security
  • 29. Escaping Responsibility
  • Part IV. How Do We Get There?
  • 30. The Time Dynamic
  • 31. Self-Awareness
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments