Courts and the Culture Wars

Herausgeber: Watson, Bradley C. S.

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Produktbeschreibung

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, America's courts-state and federal-have injected themselves into what many critics consider to be fundamentally moral or political disputes. By constitutionalizing these disputes, many feel that the courts have reduced the ability of Americans to engage in traditional, political modes of settling differences over issues that excite particular passion. While legal discourse is well suited to choosing decisive winners and losers, political discourse is perhaps more conducive to reasonable compromise and accommodation. In Courts and the Culture Wars Bradley C. S. Watson has brought together some of America's most distinguished names in constitutional theory and practice to consider the impact of judicial engagement in the moral, religious, and cultural realms-including such issues as school prayer, abortion, gay rights, and expressive speech.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9780739104149
• ISBN-10: 0739104144
• Artikelnr.: 21101096

Autorenporträt

Bradley C. S. Watson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Fellow in Politics and Culture in the Center for Economic and Policy Education at Saint Vincent College. He is the author of Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy, (Lexington Books, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: Courting Disaster: Jurisprudence as Moral Philosophy
Part 2 Courts and Culture: Fundamental Theoretical Issues Chapter 3 Courts
and the Culture Wars Chapter 4 From Ockham to Blackmun: The Philosophical
Roots of Liberal Jurisprudence Chapter 5 The Death of the Legal
Constitution and the Specter of Judicial Review Part 6 Cultural
Controversies and the Courts: Abortion, Homosexuality, Church and State
Chapter 7 The Right to Life, the Higher Law, and the Courts Chapter 8 Who
Owns the Right to Privacy? Chapter 9 Tolerance and American
Constitutionalism: The Case of Gay Rights Chapter 10 Religious Freedom
Without Religious Neutrality: Our Once and Future Constitutional Common
Sense Part 11 Judicial Practice and the Culture Wars Chapter 12 The One-Way
Ratchet and Other Problems of Stare Decisis for Cultural Conservatives
Chapter 13 The California Supreme Court in the Culture Wars: A Case Study
in Judicial Failure Part 14 Courts, Culture, and Liberal Democracy Chapter
15 Courts, Culture, and Community: Rescuing Constitutional Supremacy from
Judicial Supremacy Chapter 16 The Voting Rights Act and the Politics of
Multiculturalism: The Challenge to Commercial Republicanism at Century's
Turn