Dignity Rights : : Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person / / Erin Daly.

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• VerfasserIn: Daly, Erin,
• MitwirkendeR: Barak, Aharon,
• TeilnehmendeR: Barak, Aharon.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subj...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. "Of All Members of the Human Family"
• 2. "Not . . . a Mere Plaything"
• 3. "The Minimum Necessities of Life"
• 4. "Master of One's Fate"
• 5. "What Respect Is Due"
• 6. "The Beginning and the End of the State"
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments