Constructing Civil Liberties

Constructing Civil Liberties
Author: Ken I. Kersch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521010559

This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.

Constructing Civil Liberties

Constructing Civil Liberties
Author: Ken I. Kersch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2004
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN: 9780511302879

This book is a revisionist account of the development of the Supreme Court's modern civil liberties and civil rights jurisprudence. It explains that jurisprudence is the outgrowth of a sequence of highly particular progressive-reformist ideological currents, that formed the modern American state.

Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107033063

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State

Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Author: Megan Ming Francis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107037107

This book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, secured the support of Congress, and won a landmark criminal procedure case in front of the Supreme Court.

Routledge Revivals: Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)

Routledge Revivals: Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1308
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351269909

Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.

Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties

Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2570
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351269631

Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.

Making Men Moral

Making Men Moral
Author: Robert P. George
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 669
Release: 1993-08-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191018732

Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the `moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others. George shows that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a `pluralistic perfectionist' political theory of civil liberties and public morality.