Law's Promise, Law's Expression (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Yale University Press, New haven, 1995

0300065078 / 9780300065077

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Paperback. The conservative "social issues agenda" is targeted to voters who have felt left out, even threatened, by the successes of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the gay rights movement. The agenda centers on the expressive capacities of law and promises a cultural counterrevolution. It evokes visions of an earlier social order in which most citizens who were black or female or gay stayed "in their place"-and the place was a subordinate one. In this lively and provocative book, a constitutional law scholar argues eloquently that most of the social issues agenda for law violates the constitutional principle of equal citizenship.Kenneth Karst, author of the prize-winning Belonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution, discusses a broad range of controversial issues, from street crime to pornography, from school prayers to sodomy, from abortion to welfare to the participation of women and gays in the armed forces. In most of these areas of law the social issues agenda sounds a persistent theme: an ideology of masculinity that treats power as its own justification and equates the proof of manhood with the expression of dominance. Translating this ideology into law raises grave constitutional questions. In the social-issues contexts of race, gender, sexuality, and religion, Karst argues, judicial review of governmental action should focus on concerns for the full inclusion of all Americans in the national community. In this text, a constitutional law scholar argues that most of the social issues agenda for law violates the constitutional principle of equal citizenship. The conservative "social issues agenda" is targeted at voters who have felt left out by other civil rights movements. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Law's Promise, Law's Expression (Paperback)
Author
Kenneth L. Karst
Publisher
Yale University Press, New haven
Publication year
1995
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0300065078
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9780300065077

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