Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places : Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights /

Show other versions (2)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zackin, Emily J., 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verfassungsrecht
Landesverfassung
Soziale Rechte
Constitutional law > U.S. states.
Civil rights > U.S. states.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > États.
Constitutional law > United States > States.
Civil rights > United States > States.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items