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A Culture of rights : the Bill of Rights in philosophy, politics, and law--1791 and 1991
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- Creator
- edited by Michael J. Lacey and Knud Haakonssen
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991
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- viii, 474 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521416375, 052141637X
- OCLC
- ocm24067615
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : history, historicism, and the culture of rights / Michael J. Lacey, and Knud Haakonssen -- From natural law to the rights of man : a European perspective on American debates / Knud Haakonssen -- The Bill of Rights and the American Revolutionary experience / James H. Hutson -- Parchment barriers and the politics of rights / Jack N. Rakove -- Rights and wrongs : Jefferson, slavery, and philosophical quandaries / Charles L. Griswold, Jr. -- Practical philosophy and the Bill of Rights : perspectives on some contemporary issues / William A. Galston -- The development of modern American legal theory and the judicial interpretation of the Bill of Rights / William W. Fisher III -- The British, the Americans, and rights / Alan Ryan