nature and scope of individual rights
Subtitle: emerging debates in constitutional law
By: by Robin D. Barnes.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780890891063
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- Philosophy; Civil rights -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Guiding principles of the great social compact; title: Justifying rules of law & monitoring legal institutions; title: Autonomy, bodily integrity, and our right to die; title: State interests in matters of life and death; title: Construing sovereign rights of unitary families; title: Post-modern notions of love without limits; title: Consent : implied and denied under general criminal statutes; title: The racial divide and American identity; title: Sexual identity, gender status, and DNA; title: Gendered roles and questions of equality under the law; title: Civil liberties, national security, U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.S. Act; title: Legal training and responsibilities in the new empire.