In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality - the morality of human rights - has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States. This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are embedded in US constitutional law: the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment; the right to moral equality; and the right to religious and moral freedom. The implications of one or more of these rights for three great constitutional controversies - capital punishment, same-sex marriage and abortion - are discussed in-depth. Along the way, Michael J. Perry addresses the question of the proper role of the Supreme Court of the United States in adjudicating these controversies.
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Weight: 280g
Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
Publication Date: 08 Jul 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781107666085
About Michael J. Perry
Michael J. Perry holds a Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University where he teaches in the law school. Previously Perry held the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University where he taught for fifteen years and the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University. Perry has written on American constitutional law and theory; law morality and religion; and human rights theory in more than sixty articles and eleven books including The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy The Idea of Human Rights We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion Law Courts and Constitutional Rights Moral Controversy and the Supreme Court.
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