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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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Autor principal: Zackin, Emily J., 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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