Confronting injustice : moral history and political theory / Davis Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, David, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--United States--History.

Race discrimination.

Social justice--United States--History.

Social justice.

Moral conditions--History.

Moral conditions.

Justice.

United States--Moral conditions--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Moral history and political theory

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Lyons challenges us to confront grave injustices committed in the United States, from the colonists' encroachments on Indian lands to slavery and the legacy of racism. He calls upon legal and political theorists to take these social wrongs seriously in their approaches to moral obligation under law and the justification of civil disobedience.

Contents:

The balance of injustice and the War for Independence

Slavery and the rule of law in early Virginia

The legal entrenchment of illegality

Unfinished business : racial junctures in US history and their legacy

Corrective justice, equal opportunity, and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow

Normal law, nearly just societies, and other myths of legal theory

Moral judgment, historical reality, and civil disobedience

Political responsibility and resistance to civil government

Courage and political resistance

Epilog : from politics to philosophy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-163955-9

OCLC:

922971884