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A radically illuminating view of our most precious rights. All legally enforceable rights cost money. A practical, commonsense notion? Yes, but one ignored by almost everyone, from libertarian ideologues to Supreme Court justices to human rights advocates. To "fight for your rights," or anyone else's, is not just to debate principles but to haggle over budgets. Most conservatives imagine that we exercise our rights to property, speech, and religion "free" of government "interference." Yet such rights would not exist if government could not collect taxes to codify, protect, and enforce them. Meanwhile, most liberals prefer to avoid the harsh reality that spending resources on some rights means not spending them on other, perhaps more valuable, rights. The simple insight that rights are expensive reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it-and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated. Laying bare the folly of some of our most cherished myths about rights, this groundbreaking tract will permanently change the terms of our most critical and contentious political debates.
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Stephen Holmes teaches political science at Princeton University and New York University Law School.
Cass R. Sunstein teaches law and political science at the University of Chicago.
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Condition: Gut. 2. Aufl. 255 Gutes Exemplar, Text sauber, keine Eintragungen. Good copy, clean text, no inscriptions. --- CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- -- INTRODUCTION: -- -- COMMON SENSE ABOUT RIGHTS -- -- 13 -- -- PART I: -- -- WHY A PENNILESS STATE CANNOT PROTECT RIGHTS -- -- Chapter One: All Rights Are Positive -- -- 35 -- -- Chapter Two: The Necessity of Government Performance -- -- 49 -- -- Chapter Three: No Property without Taxation -- -- 59 -- -- Chapter Four: Watchdogs Must Be Paid -- -- 77 -- -- PART II: -- -- WHY RIGHTS CANNOT BE ABSOLUTES -- -- Chapter Five: How Scarcity Affects Liberty -- -- 87 -- -- Chapter Six: How Rights Differ from Interests -- -- 99 -- -- Chapter Seven: Enforcing Rights Means -- -- Distributing Resources -- -- 113 -- -- Chapter Eight: Why Tradeoffs Are Inescapable -- -- 118 -- -- PART III: -- -- WHY RIGHTS ENTAIL RESPONSIBILITIES -- -- Chapter Nine: Have Rights Gone Too Far? -- -- 135 -- -- Chapter Ten: The Unselfishness of Rights -- -- Chapter Eleven: Rights as a Response to Moral Breakdown -- -- 162 -- -- PART IV: UNDERSTANDING RIGHTS AS BARGAINS -- -- Chapter Twelve: How Religious Liberty Promotes Stability -- -- 175 -- -- Chapter Thirteen: Rightsholders as Stakeholders -- -- 189 -- -- Chapter Fourteen: Welfare Rights and the Politics of Inclusion -- -- 204 -- -- CONCLUSION: THE PUBLIC CHARACTER OF PRIVATE FREEDOMS -- -- 220 -- -- APPENDIX: SOME NUMBERS ON RIGHTS AND THEIR COSTS -- -- 233 -- -- NOTES -- -- 237 -- -- INDEX. ISBN 9780393046700 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 1247378
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