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by Michael James Lacey (Editor); Knud Haakonssen (Editor)

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Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide new insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions. Based on the current state of scholarly understanding and intended to provide a fresh sense of orientation into the complexities of the separate topics covered, the studies focus on two distinct "moments" in the American experience: the eighteenth-century period of founding that produced the Bill of Rights as an element in the Constitutional settlement, and the contemporary moment, marked by a new historical consciousness of the difficulties of interpreting rights in changing contexts and thus by the continuing search for a properly grounded philosophical jurisprudence adequate to meet the ethical, social, and political conflicts of the present.

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As the first ten amendments were making their way through the provisions of the new Constitution they were to amend, American jurisprudence was being systematically formulated by the recently appointed professor to the new chair of law at the College of Philadelphia.

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  • Title A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991
  • Author Michael James Lacey (Editor); Knud Haakonssen (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 484
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1991-11-29
  • ISBN 9780521416375 / 052141637X
  • Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.27 x 1.15 in (23.55 x 15.93 x 2.92 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Civil rights - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91025265
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

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  • Library Journal, 01/01/1992, Page 0
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