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The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights
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by Hadley Arkes

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From Amherst College, Hadley Arkes seeks to restore, for a new generation, the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherlandone anchored in the understanding of natural rights. Arkes argues that if both liberals and conservatives would study the writings of George Sutherland, with unclouded eyes, both groups would set aside their differences and return to the moral ground of their jurisprudence.

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In this book, Hadley Arkes seeks to restore, for a new generation, the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherland--a jurisprudence anchored in the understanding of natural rights. The doctrine of natural rights has become controversial in our own time, while Sutherland has been widely maligned and screened from our historical memory. He is remembered today as one of the "four horsemen" who resisted Roosevelt and the New Deal; but we have forgotten his leadership in the cause of voting rights for women. Both liberal and conservative jurists now deride Sutherland, yet both groups continue to draw upon his writings. Liberals look to Sutherland for a jurisprudence that protects "privacy" against the rule of majorities, as in matters concerning abortion or gay rights. Conservatives will appeal to his defense of freedom in the economy.

However, both liberals and conservatives deny the premises of natural rights that provided the ground, and coherence, of Sutherland's teaching. Arkes contends that Sutherland can supply what is missing in both conservative and liberal jurisprudence. He argues that if a new generation can look again, with unclouded eyes, at the writings of Sutherland, both liberals and conservatives can be led back to the moral ground of their jurisprudence. This compelling intellectual biography introduces readers to an urbane man, and a steely judge, who has been made a stranger to them.

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I HAD, gathered around me, a collection of colleagues and friends, tutored in history and politically attuned.

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  • Title The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights
  • Author Hadley Arkes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First paperback
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Woodstock, United Kingdom
  • Publication date 1997-04-22
  • ISBN 9780691016283 / 0691016283
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.15 x 0.74 in (23.44 x 15.62 x 1.88 cm)
  • Category Legal Reference / Law Profession
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.731

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Hadley Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at American College. His books include First Things and Beyond the Constitution (Both published by Princeton University Press).

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