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Human rights in the constitutional law of the United States / Michael J. Perry, Emory University School of Law.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, CUP, 2013.Description: x, 185 pagesISBN:
  • 9781107038363 (hardback)
  • 1107038367 (hardback)
  • 9781107666085 (paperback)
  • 1107666082 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 PER.H
Contents:
The internationalization of human rights -- What is a "Human Right"? -- The normative ground of human rights -- Capital punishment -- The question of judicial deference -- The right to moral equality -- The right to religious and moral freedom -- Same-sex marriage -- Abortion.
Summary: "In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what has never before existed: a truly global morality--specifically, a global political morality. That morality, which I call "the morality of human rights", consists both of a fundamental imperative, which serves as the normative ground of human rights, and of various human rights--of various rights, that is, recognized by the great majority of the countries of the world as human rights"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The internationalization of human rights -- What is a "Human Right"? -- The normative ground of human rights -- Capital punishment -- The question of judicial deference -- The right to moral equality -- The right to religious and moral freedom -- Same-sex marriage -- Abortion.

"In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what has never before existed: a truly global morality--specifically, a global political morality. That morality, which I call "the morality of human rights", consists both of a fundamental imperative, which serves as the normative ground of human rights, and of various human rights--of various rights, that is, recognized by the great majority of the countries of the world as human rights"--

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