Looking for rights in all the wrong places: why state constitutions contain America's positive rights
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1. Verfasser: Zackin, Emily J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton [N.J.] Princeton University Press ©2013
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in American politics
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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 people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rig
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ISBN:0691155771
069115578X
129933301X
1400846277
9780691155777
9780691155784
9781299333017
9781400846276

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