Sonu Bedi

Rejecting Rights (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The language of rights is ubiquitous. It shapes the way we construct our debates over issues such as abortion, affirmative action and sexual freedom. This provocative new study challenges the very concept of rights, arguing that they jeopardize our liberty and undermine democratic debate. By re-conceptualizing our ideas about limited government, it suggests that we can limit the reasons or rationales on which the polity may act. Whereas we once used the language of rights to thwart democratic majorities, Bedi argues that we should now turn our attention to the democratic state's reason for acting. This will permit greater democratic flexibility and discretion while ensuring genuine liberty. Deftly employing political theory and constitutional law to state its case, the study radically rethinks the relationship between liberty and democracy, and will be essential reading for scholars and students of political and legal philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511501319
• Artikelnr.: 38206258

Autorenporträt

Sonu Bedi is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Bedi works in the intersection of law and political theory. His publications include Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen (co-editor, 2007) and articles in constitutional law and political philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Rights: 1. The classic conception of rights: the 'democratic deficit'
2. Reflexive rights: jeopardizing freedom, equality, and democratic debate
Part II. Justification in Theory: 3. The turn to justification
4. A theory of justification: specifying the appropriate legislative purpose
5. Rejecting rights
Part III. Justification in Practice: 6. Rejecting the constitutional rights to property and religion
7. Rejecting the constitutional right to privacy
8. Equal protection and judicial review
Conclusion
Bibliography.