Michael J. Perry

Global Political Morality (eBook, ePUB)

Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly global morality in human history. Perry also pursues the implications of the morality of human rights for democratic governance and for the proper role of courts - especially the US Supreme Court - in protecting constitutionally entrenched human rights. The principal constitutional controversies discussed in the book are capital punishment, race-based affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide and abortion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108150149
• Artikelnr.: 49047078

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Perry has held a Robert W. Woodruff University Chair at Emory University, Atlanta since 2003, where he teaches in the School of Law. Perry is also a Senior Fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion and a co-editor of the Journal of Law and Religion. He is the author of twelve books and over eighty-five articles, essays and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Morality of Human Rights: 1. What are 'human
rights'? Against the 'orthodox' view; 2. What reason(s) do we have, if any,
to take human rights seriously? Beyond 'human dignity'; Part II. From the
Morality of Human Rights to Democracy and to Certain Limitations on
Democracy: 3. The three pillars of democracy: the human rights to
democratic governance, intellectual freedom, and moral equality; 4.
Democracy limited: the human right to religious and moral freedom; Part
III. Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism: 5. A theory of
judicial review; 6. The theory illustrated: five constitutional
controversies, five judicial opinions; 7. Poverty as a human rights issue:
constitutionalism-related reflections; Concluding note: human rights
foundationalism.