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Confronting injustice : moral history and political theory /
David Lyons challenges us to confront grave injustices committed in the United States, from the colonists' encroachments on Indian lands to slavery and the legacy of racism. He calls upon legal and political theorists to take these social wrongs seriously in their approaches to moral obligation...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The balance of injustice and the War for Independence
- Slavery and the rule of law in early Virginia
- The legal entrenchment of illegality
- Unfinished business : racial junctures in US history and their legacy
- Corrective justice, equal opportunity, and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow
- Normal law, nearly just societies, and other myths of legal theory
- Moral judgment, historical reality, and civil disobedience
- Political responsibility and resistance to civil government
- Courage and political resistance
- Epilog : from politics to philosophy.