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The American Language of Rights

By Richard A. Primus

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521652502, 9780521652506
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1433826 bytes)
Series
Ideas in Context
Pages
284\280
Time added
2016-10-09 23:10:16
United States;African Americans;Civil War;Colonial

Description

Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the Civil War and the 1950s and 1960s) and demonstrates how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of opposition to concrete political cases. In the first study of its kind, Primus highlights the influence of totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) on the language of rights. This book will be a major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law, and American history.

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