Reassessing civil rights
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Reassessing civil rights
Blackwell for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, 1991
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The collection of essays in this volume focuses on the attempt by democratic societies to construct laws that guarantee that the rule of law will apply to everyone. They address fundamental ethical issues that underlie much of the heated public rhetoric on civil rights. Is equality before the law a sufficient goal, or should disadvantaged groups be given special dispensations? How much governmental intervention into private contractual relations is justifiable in order to achieve greater equality? Will such interventions create future inequalities by advantaging the disadvantaged and disadvantaging the advantaged? Are voluntary, free-market dealings inimical to civil rights or are they beneficial? The contributors draw on such diverse fields as law, economics, history, and philosophy to answer these questions.
Table of Contents
- Rights and structure in constitutional theory, Geoffrey P.Miller
- the message of affirmative action, Thomas E.Hill Jr
- affirmative action rhetoric, Margaret Jane Radin
- why markets don't stop discrimination, Cass R.Sunstein
- change and continunity in the concept of civil rights - Thurgood Marshall and affirmative action, Mark Tushnet
- what are "civil rights"
- Lloyd L.Weinreb
- plural but equal - group identity and voluntary integration, Jennifer Roback
- civil rights versus civil liberties - the case of discriminatory verbal harassment, Thomas C.Grey
- black and white together - a reconsideration, W.B.Allen
- two conceptions of civil rights, Richard A.Epstein.
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