Title: Human rights in the constitutional law of the United States /
Authors: Perry, Michael J.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Civil rights United States; Constitutional law United States; Human rights United States; Human rights; Civil rights; Constitutional law; Human rights.; United States
Abstract: "In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what has never before existed: a truly global morality--specifically, a global political morality. That morality, which I call "the morality of human rights", consists both of a fundamental imperative, which serves as the normative ground of human rights, and of various human rights--of various rights, that is, recognized by the great majority of the countries of the world as human rights"--
Contents: The internationalization of human rights -- What is a "Human Right"? -- The normative ground of human rights -- Capital punishment -- The question of judicial deference -- The right to moral equality -- The right to religious and moral freedom -- Same-sex marriage -- Abortion.