Civil Rights
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Civil Rights

Rethinking their Natural Foundation

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eBook - PDF

Civil Rights

Rethinking their Natural Foundation

About this book

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L. West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing. Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on non-discrimination and thus have 'hollowed out' this broader meaning of civil rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781108486019
eBook ISBN
9781316998519
Topic
Droit
Subtopic
Jurisprudence

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Rebuilding Civil Rights
  9. 1 The Antidiscrimination Principle and Its Discontents
  10. 2 Residues of Injustice: Formal Equality and Civil Rights
  11. 3 Toward a Jurisprudence of Civil Rights
  12. 4 A Frayed Quilt: Our Lost, Imperfect, and Unimagined Civil Rights
  13. 5 Protecting Rights to Enter: Constitutional Rights and Civil Rights in Conflict
  14. Conclusion: A Legal Moment
  15. Index