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Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism.

Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism addresses when courts should invalidate laws and when they should uphold them even in the midst of reasonable disagreement about the correct outcome in particular constitutional controversies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Den Otter, Ronald C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Constitutional Adjudication; II. Public Justification; III. Reasonable Dissenters; IV. The California Same-Sex Marriage Cases; V. Reasonable Disagreement; VI. Theory and Practice; One Public Justification and Constitutional Theory; I. The Legitimacy of Judicial Review; A. Ambivalence; B. The Specter of Indeterminacy; II. A Few Words on Originalism; A. Overview; B. Critique; III. Philosophical Approaches to Constitutional Adjudication; Two Freedom and Equality in Constitutional History.
  • I. Standards of ReviewII. Freedom; III. Equality; IV. Deference to Legislative Majorities; Three The Challenge of Public Justification; I. The Concept of Public Justification; A. Public Justification in Political Theory Literature; B. Two Basic Approaches to Public Justification; D. The Consequences; E. The Exchange of Reasons; II. The Limits of Human Reason; A. Inevitable Reasonable Disagreement; B. Skepticism about Legal Reasoning; Four Competing Conceptions of Public Reason; I. The Three Conceptions; II. Laissez-Faire Public Reason; A. Hobbes and Kant; B. Habermas.
  • II. Exclusive Public ReasonA. Overview; A. Gerald Gaus's Semilibertarianism; B. Strict Self-Restraint; III. Inclusive Public Reason; A. Overview; C. Rawlsian Public Idea; Five Constitutional Public Reason; I. Exclusive Public Reason; A. Overview; B. Empirical Claims; II. How to Distinguish Better from Worse Public Arguments; A. Public versus Nonpublic Reasons; III. Exclusive Constitutional Public Reason; A. Constitutional Judgment; B. The Accessibility of Public Reasons; B. Reasonableness; Six The Limits of Public Justification; I. The Limits of Public Justification.
  • A. Reasonable DisagreementC. Publicly Justified Laws; D. Weighing Public Reasons; II. The Problem of Political Legitimacy Revisited; A. The Rationale of Public Justification; B. Good-Enough Legitimacy; Seven Standard Objections to Public Reason; I. Objections to Public Reason; A. The Distinction between Public and Nonpublic Reasons Is Untenable; B. Public Reason Is Rigged; C. Public Reason Unwisely Restricts Public Deliberation; D. Public Reason Discriminates against Citizens of Faith; E. Public Reason Excludes the Unreasonable; F. Public Reason Is Undemocratic.
  • G. Public Reason Is UnrealisticEight Easier Cases; I. Religious Freedom; II. Same-Sex Marriage; A. Academic Arguments against Same-Sex Marriage; B. Why Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Is Unreasonable; NINE Harder Cases; I. Affirmative Action; A. Overview; B. The University of Michigan Cases: Grutter and Gratz; C. The Challenge of Affirmative Action; II. Abortion; A. Overview; B. Does Roe Lack a Constitutional Basis?; C. Stalemate; TEN The Case for Judicial Review; I. Judicial Review; A. Overview; B.A Brief History; C. Judges and Public Reasons; D. Three Concerns about Judicial Review.