The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781107672383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 226 str.

Michael J Perry

Opis

This important new work elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy.

Recenzje

'… wide-ranging and forceful …' William A. Galston, Brookings Institution

Spis treści

Part I. Liberal Democracy, Human Rights, and Religious Faith: 1. Liberal democracy and human rights; 2. Liberal democracy and religious faith; Part II. First Principles: 3. The right to moral equality; 4. The right to religious freedom; 5. Beyond religious freedom: the right to moral freedom; 6. Religion as a basis of lawmaking; Part III. First Principles Applied: 7. Abortion; 8. Same-sex unions; Part IV. The Constitution of Liberal Democracy: 9. Protecting constitutionally entrenched rights: the courts' - in particular, the US Supreme Court's - proper rule.