Civil rights : rethinking their natural foundation / Robin L. West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Robin, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States--Philosophy.

Civil rights.

Human rights--Philosophy.

Human rights.

Philosophy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L. West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing. Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on non-discrimination and thus have 'hollowed out' this broader meaning of civil rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

Contents:

Introduction

The antidiscrimination principle and its discontents

Residues of injustice: Formal equality and civil rights

Toward a jurisprudence of civil rights

A frayed quilt: Our lost, imperfect, and unimagined civil rights

Protecting rights to enter: Constitutional rights and civil rights in conflict

Conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108623261

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