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" Freedom's law : "
Ronald Dworkin.
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991159
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b745529
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| Main Entry
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Dworkin, Ronald.
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Freedom's law : : the moral reading of the American Constitution /\ Ronald Dworkin.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 1996.
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404 pages ;; 25 cm
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0674319273
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: 0674319281
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: 9780674319271
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: 9780674319288
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-389) and index.
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I. Life, death, and race : 1. Roe in danger -- 2. Verdict postponed -- 3. What the Constitution says -- 4. Roe was saved -- 5. Do we have the right to die? -- 6. Gag rule and affirmative action -- II. Speech, conscience, and sex : 1. The press on trial -- 2. Why must speech be free? -- 3. Pornography and hate -- 4. MacKinnon's Words -- 5. Why academic freedom? -- III. Judges : 1. Bork: the Senate's responsibility -- 2. What Bork's defeat meant -- 3. Bork's own postmortem -- 4. The Thomas Nomination -- 5. Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas -- 6. Learned hands.
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Dworkin argues that Americans have been systemically misled about what their Constitution is and how judges decide what it means. What does its abstract language mean when it is applied to the political controversies that divide Americans--about affirmative action, euthanasia, censorship, pornography, and homosexuality, for example? Is the moral reading of the Constitution--the only reading that really makes sense--really undemocratic? In this fascinating book, Dworkin discusses these and other aspects of the document.
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USA, Verfassung, 1787
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United States., Constitution., 1st-10th Amendments.
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Constitutional law-- Moral and ethical aspects-- United States.
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Droit constitutionnel-- États-Unis-- Aspect moral.
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Constitutional law-- Moral and ethical aspects-- United States.
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Constitutional law-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Droit constitutionnel-- Aspect moral.
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Droit constitutionnel-- Etats-Unis.
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Ethik
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Ethische aspecten.
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Grondrechten.
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Staatsrecht.
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United States.
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USA, Verfassung (1787)
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| Dewey Classification
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342.73/02347.3022
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KF4552.D96 1996
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