Natural Rights and the Right to Choose

ISBN-13: 9780521604789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 315 str.

Hadley Arkes

Opis

Hadley Arkes argues that the 'right to abortion' has shifted the American political class away from the doctrine of natural rights held by the Founders.

Recenzje

'Hadley Arkes is one of the keenest observers of law and culture in America. I read - no, devour - his writings. Thank God for him.' Charles W. Colson, Prison Fellowship Ministries, Washington, DC

Spis treści

1. Introduction: backing into treason; 2. The drift from natural rights; 3. On the things the founders knew - and how our judges came to forget them; 4. Abortion and the 'modest first step'; 5. Anti-jural jurisprudence; 6. Prudent warning and imprudent reactions: 'judicial usurpation' and the unravelling of rights; 7. Finding home ground: the axioms of the constitution; 8. Epilogue: spring becomes fall becomes spring: a memoir.