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Freedom and the Rule of Law (Hardcover)
Anthony A Peacock; Contributions by Bradley C. S Watson, Edward Whelan, Jeremy Rabkin, Joseph Postell, …
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R4,207
Discovery Miles 42 070
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Freedom and the Rule of Law takes a critical look at the historical
beginnings of law in the United States, and how that history has
influenced current trends regarding law and freedom. Anthony
Peacock has compiled articles that examine the relationship between
freedom and the rule of law in America. Although this is a theme
that has been a perennial one since America's founding, it is also
one of particular importance today, and this book explains how
history makes this apparent. The rule of law is fundamental to all
liberal constitutional regimes whose political orders recognize the
equal natural rights of all, and whose purpose is to protect those
natural rights in addition to the general welfare. The rule of law
was essential to achieving both of these ends and to reconciling
them where necessary. But just how free is America today? It was
certainly within the contemplation of the Founders that the federal
judiciary would have a significant role in interpreting the
Constitution, federal laws, and treaties, but it would be difficult
to argue that those who framed and ratified the Constitution
contemplated a role for the courts, particularly for the United
States Supreme Court, of the magnitude they have today. The writers
take the reader far back into history to the very roots of American
Law by examining the English common law roots that provided the
foundation for the rule of law in America. This book explores these
phenomena and other recent developments in American freedom through
history.
This is the third and final volume in the series on American
political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West.
The book addresses how the major themes in American political
thought-identified in the first two books of the series-have played
out in the world of modern American politics. The first volume
focused on the founding era, and examined the prevalence of
social-compact theory among the founders and implications of that
theory for the design of American institutions. The second volume
examined the major challenges that nineteenth-century thought posed
to the political ideas of the founding, and suggested that these
challenges created tensions that would significantly affect the
development of American politics in the twentieth century and
beyond. In Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding, the
authors address these fundamental tensions: how does modern America
resolve the inherent conflict between the original constitutional
order and the challenges posed by modern liberalism? The authors
look at the contemporary effects of this fundamental tension on
questions of foreign policy and domestic policy, and on questions
of our national political institutions and the ideas that shape
them today.
This is the third and final volume in the series on American
political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West.
The book addresses how the major themes in American political
thought_identified in the first two books of the series_have played
out in the world of modern American politics. The first volume
focused on the founding era, and examined the prevalence of
social-compact theory among the founders and implications of that
theory for the design of American institutions. The second volume
examined the major challenges that nineteenth-century thought posed
to the political ideas of the founding, and suggested that these
challenges created tensions that would significantly affect the
development of American politics in the twentieth century and
beyond. In Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding, the
authors address these fundamental tensions: how does modern America
resolve the inherent conflict between the original constitutional
order and the challenges posed by modern liberalism? The authors
look at the contemporary effects of this fundamental tension on
questions of foreign policy and domestic policy, and on questions
of our national political institutions and the ideas that shape
them today.
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Courts and the Culture Wars (Hardcover)
Bradley C. S Watson; Contributions by Robert H. Bork, Francis Canavan, Murray Dry, John C. Eastman, …
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R3,641
Discovery Miles 36 410
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For much of the second half of the twentieth century, America's
courts--state and federal--have injected themselves into what many
critics consider to be fundamentally moral or political disputes.
By constitutionalizing these disputes, many feel that the courts
have reduced the ability of Americans to engage in traditional,
political modes of settling differences over issues that excite
particular passion. While legal discourse is well suited to
choosing decisive winners and losers, political discourse is
perhaps more conducive to reasonable compromise and accommodation.
In Courts and the Culture Wars Bradley C. S. Watson has brought
together some of America's most distinguished names in
constitutional theory and practice to consider the impact of
judicial engagement in the moral, religious, and cultural
realms--including such issues as school prayer, abortion, gay
rights, and expressive speech.
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Courts and the Culture Wars (Paperback)
Bradley C. S Watson; Contributions by Robert H. Bork, Francis Canavan, Murray Dry, John C. Eastman, …
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R1,607
Discovery Miles 16 070
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For much of the second half of the twentieth century, America's
courts--state and federal--have injected themselves into what many
critics consider to be fundamentally moral or political disputes.
By constitutionalizing these disputes, many feel that the courts
have reduced the ability of Americans to engage in traditional,
political modes of settling differences over issues that excite
particular passion. While legal discourse is well suited to
choosing decisive winners and losers, political discourse is
perhaps more conducive to reasonable compromise and accommodation.
In Courts and the Culture Wars Bradley C. S. Watson has brought
together some of America's most distinguished names in
constitutional theory and practice to consider the impact of
judicial engagement in the moral, religious, and cultural
realms--including such issues as school prayer, abortion, gay
rights, and expressive speech.
This collection of essays by prominent American and French scholars
explores the political, cultural, and social implications of the
most fundamentally formative modern event, the French Revolution.
The contributors contend that the vocabulary and spirit of the
French Revolution has exercised greater influence on the modern
world than the more moderate and by all appearances more successful
American Revolution. The Legacy of the French Revolution delineates
the distinctive characters of the American and French revolutions
and analyzes the different variants of democratic political
traditions that have evolved from this seminal event. This book
will be of particular interest to political theorists, political
historians, and students of democratic theory.
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