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Looking for rights in all the wrong places : why state constitutions contain America's positive rights /

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zackin, Emily J., 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Princeton studies in American politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Looking for rights in all the wrong places
  • Of ski trails and state constitutions : silly details or serious principles?
  • Defining positive rights
  • Why write new rights? : understanding constitutional development apart from entrenchment
  • Education : a long tradition of positive rights in America
  • Workers' rights : constitutional protections where (and when) we would least expect them
  • Environmental protection : positive constitutional rights in the late twentieth century.