Format:
Online-Ressource (192 p.)
ISBN:
9780691149301
Content:
When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution. But did the court act undemocratically by overriding the rights of the majority of voters in Texas? Scholars often point to such cases as exposing a fundamental tension between the democratic principle of majority rule and the liberal concern to protect individual rights. Democratic Rights challenges this view by showing that, in fact, democracy demands many of these rights. Corey Brettschneider
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Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The Value Theory of Democracy; CHAPTER TWO: Paradigmatic Democratic Rights and Citizens as Addressees of Law; CHAPTER THREE: Democratic Contractualism: A Framework for Justifiable Coercion; CHAPTER FOUR: Public Justification and the Right to Privacy; CHAPTER FIVE: The Rights of the Punished; CHAPTER SIX: Private Property and the Right to Welfare; CHAPTER SEVEN: Judicial Review: Balancing Democratic Rights and Procedures; Conclusion: Democratic Rights and Contemporary Politics; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400828104
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Democratic Rights : The Substance of Self-Government
Language:
English
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