Toleration And The Constitution
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Author | : David A. J. Richards |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 1989-04-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195363086 |
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Why have the issues of religious liberty, free speech and constitutional privacy come to figure so prominently in our society? What are the origins of the basic principles of our constitutional law? This work develops a general theory of constitutional interpretation based on an original synthesis of political theory, history, law, and a larger approach to the interpretation of culture. Presenting both historical and theoretical arguments in support of a theory that affirms the moral sovereignty of the people, Richards maintains that toleration, or respect for conscience and individual freedom, is the central constitutional ideal. He discusses such current topics of constitutional controversy as church-state relations, the scope of free speech, and the application of the constitutional right to privacy, to abortion, and consensual adult sexual relations.
Author | : Madame Katherine S. Wansboro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David A. J. Richards |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1400863562 |
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At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A. J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then proposes his own view: together the amendments embodied a self-conscious rebirth of America's revolutionary, rights-based constitutionalism. Building on an approach to constitutional law developed in his Toleration and the Constitution and Foundations of American Constitutionalism, Richards links history, law, and political theory. In Conscience and the Constitution, this method leads from an analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments to a broad discussion of the American constitutional system as a whole. Richards's interpretation focuses on the abolitionists and their radical commitment to the "dissenting conscience." In his view, the Reconstruction Amendments expressed not only the constitutional arguments of a particular historical period but also a general political theory developed by the abolitionists, who restructured the American political community in terms of respect for universal human rights. He argues further that the amendments make a claim on our generation to keep faith with the vision of the "founders of 1865." In specific terms he points out what such allegiance would mean in the context of present-day constitutional issues. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1980-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1603844570 |
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The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.
Author | : David A. J. Richards |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1989-12-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195363116 |
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In writing the constitution, the Founders combined a Lockean theory of politically legitimate power with the political science they had learned from Machiavelli, Harrington, Hume, and Montesquieu to articulate a new conception of constitutional argument. Examining the Founders' humanist analytical methods and working assumptions, this book combines history, political philosophy, and interpretive practice as it demonstrates an alternative exegesis of the Constitution. It clarifies a wide range of interpretive issues of federalism, enumerated rights (religious liberty and free speech), unenumerated rights (the constitutional right to privacy), and equal protection.
Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : Irvington Publishers |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Treatise of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1796 |
Genre | : Toleration |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew R. Murphy |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2015-11-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271075945 |
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Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.
Author | : William Findley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Christianity and politics |
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