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The Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism - John Stuart Mill and the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
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The Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism - John Stuart Mill and the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
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John Stuart Mill is the father of modern liberalism. His most
remembered work, On Liberty, which was published in 1859, changed
the course of the liberal tradition. What is less well-known is
that his ideas have profoundly influenced the American
constitutional rights tradition of the latter half of the twentieth
century. Mill's 'harm principle' inspired the constitutional right
to privacy recognized in Griswold v Connecticut, Roe vs Wade and
other cases. His defense of freedom of expression influenced
Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Douglas, Brennan and others and led to
greatly expanded freedom of speech in the twentieth century.
Finally, Mill was an ardent feminist whose last important work, The
Subjection of Women, was a full-scale and, for its time, radical
defense of complete gender equality. This is a book for lawyers who
want to understand the intellectual origins of modern
constitutional rights, and for political philosophers interested in
the constitutional implications of Mill's conception of freedom.
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