A Theory of Justice
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Abolitionism
Amendment
American philosophy
Articles of Confederation
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Baker v. Carr
Bill of attainder
Bill of rights
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Civil Rights Cases
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Common law
Communitarianism
Constitution
Constitutional amendment
Constitutional crisis
Constitutional law
Constitutional theory
Constitutionalism
Constitutionalist (UK)
Constitutionality
Contractualism
Corfield v. Coryell
Covenant (law)
Divine law
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Due Process Clause
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Equal Protection Clause
Establishment Clause
Ex post facto law
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Freedom of speech
Frontiero v. Richardson
Griswold v. Connecticut
Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
Interpretivism (legal)
Judicial activism
Judicial interpretation
Judiciary
Law of the United States
Legitimacy (political)
Luther v. Borden
Nativism (politics)
Natural and legal rights
Patriarchalism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Police power (United States constitutional law)
Political philosophy
Popular sovereignty
Public morality
Public reason
Racism
Ratification
Rational basis review
Reconstruction Amendments
Reitman v. Mulkey
Right of revolution
Right to petition in the United States
Roth v. United States
Rule of law
Slavery
Standing (law)
States' rights
Substantive due process
The Right to Privacy (article)
The Spirit of the Laws
Toleration
Two Treatises of Government
United States Constitution
Utilitarianism
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- ISBN 9780691600246
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
