Morality Imposed : : The Rehnquist Court and the State of Liberty in America / / Stephen E. Gottlieb.
We like to think of judges and justices as making decisions based on the facts and the law. But to what extent do jurists decide cases in accordance with their own preexisting philosophy of law, and what specific ideological assumptions account for their decisions? Stephen E. Gottlieb adopts a uniqu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface:Why and How This Book
- 1 Origins
- 2 The Gulf
- 3 Eclectic or Unprincipled?
- 4 Three Justices in Search of a Character
- 5 Between Two Worlds
- 6 Consensus on the Left
- 7 Calculus
- 8 Where Utilitarians Diverge
- 9 Coda
- 10 Ideological Canons
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author