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Constitutional rights, moral controversy, and the Supreme Court / Michael J. Perry.

Title: Constitutional rights, moral controversy, and the Supreme Court / Michael J. Perry.
Author: Perry, Michael J.
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description

x, 254 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"If a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitution, it does not necessarily follow that the Court should rule that the law is unconstitutional. In cases in which it is argued that a law violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court must decide which of two importantly different questions it should address: (1) Is the challenged law unconstitutional? (2) Is the lawmakers' judgment that the challenged law is constitutional a reasonable judgment?"--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Human rights : from morality to constitutional law -- Constitutionally entrenched human rights, the Supreme Court, and Thayerian deference -- Capital punishment -- Same-sex unions -- Abortion -- Thayerian deference revisited.

ISBN

9780521755955 (hbk.)
0521755956 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2008004208

OCLC

191898132
SCSB-10475000

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Harvard Library