Law and Disagreement

Waldron, Jeremy (Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy, Columbia University)

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This study argues that disagreements about rights should be resolved by some procedure other than the usual democratic voting, for example, by majority voting, not among the people or their representatives, but among judges in a court. Introduction 1(18) I. A Jurisprudence of Legislation 19(128) Legislatures in Legal Philosophy 21(28) Legislation by Assembly 49(20) Text and Polyphony 69(19) Legislation, Authority, and Voting 88(31) Legislators' Intentions and Unintentional Legislation 119(28) II. Disagreement in Principle 147(62) Rawls's Political Liberalism 149(15) The Irrelevance of Moral Objectivity 164(24) The Circumstances of Integrity 188(21) III. Rights and Judicial Review 209(104) Between Rights and Bills of Rights 211(21) Participation: The Right of Rights 232(23) Disagreement and Precommitment 255(27) The Constitutional Conception of Democracy 282(31) Bibliography 313(14) Index 327
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Jaar
2001
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
344
Gewicht
522 gr
EAN
9780199243037
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233 x 158 x 19 mm
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