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020 _a9781107038363 (hardback)
020 _a1107038367 (hardback)
020 _a9781107666085 (paperback)
020 _a1107666082 (paperback)
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_bPER.H
100 1 _aPerry, Michael J.
245 1 0 _aHuman rights in the constitutional law of the United States /
_cMichael J. Perry, Emory University School of Law.
260 _aNew York,
_bCUP,
_c2013.
300 _ax, 185 pages ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aCivil rights
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aConstitutional law
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHuman rights.
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