The Bill of Rights : how we got it and what it means / by Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009

Table of Contents: “…-- What the people are entitled to -- The ten amendments -- If there is any fixed star -- The right to dissent -- Freedom and the witch-hunt -- Secrecy and censorship -- A nation of joiners -- Gun control -- The right to be let alone -- The right to remain silent -- The promise of a fair trail -- The law should be humane -- Powers that belong to the people.…”


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Litigating rights perspectives from domestic and international law /

Subjects: “…Civil rights.…”
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The Right to Die Terri Schiavo /

Table of Contents: “…Right to Life Decisions (3:40) -- Life, Medical Ethics, and Politics (2:04) -- Right to Live, Right to Die (4:28) -- Life Support Ethics Debate (9:21)…”
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The right chorale studies in biblical law and interpretation / by Levinson, Bernard M. (Bernard Malcolm)

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Animal rights : current debates and new directions /

Table of Contents: “…what are animal rights? /…”


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Getting it right : language, literature, and ethics / by Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-

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The rights of women the authoritative ACLU guide to women's rights / by Lapidus, Lenora M.

Table of Contents: “…Constitutional rights : equal protection -- Employment : discrimination and parenting issues -- Trafficking and forced labor of women workers -- Education -- Violence against women -- Reproductive freedom -- Family law -- The criminal justice system -- TANF/welfare -- Housing -- Public accommodations and private clubs.…”
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Democratic rights : the substance of self-government / by Brettschneider, Corey Lang

Table of Contents: “…The value theory of democracy -- Procedural democractic [sic] theories -- Procedure-independent theories: epistemic and democratic -- Paradigmatic democratic rights and citizens as addressees of law -- Citizens as authors and addressees: co-originality and citizens' status -- Rule of law -- Freedom of expression and conscience -- Democratic contractualism: a framework for justifiable coercion -- A lexicon of citizenship -- The principle of democracy's public reason -- The inclusion principle -- Public justification and the right to privacy -- Situating democratic privacy: a critique of liberal and republican accounts -- Relevance and the boundaries of privacy -- Privacy, equality, and democratically justifiable coercion -- The rights of the punished -- The need for justification to criminals qua citizens: the problem with punishment as war -- State punishment as an issue of political morality: punishing criminals qua persons versus criminals qua citizens -- Democratic rights against punishment -- Capital punishment -- Private property and the right to welfare -- The right to private property and state coercion -- Democratic contractualism and the right to private property -- Democratic proposals for welfare rights -- Judicial review: balancing democratic rights and procedures -- The limits of a pure outcomes-based theory -- The failure of pure procedural theories -- Impure procedural and outcomes-based theories -- The flaws with formal democratic arguments and the need for examples in a theory of democracy -- The objection from benevolent dictatorship -- Democratic rights and contemporary politics.…”


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Human rights a political and cultural critique / by Mutua, Makau

Subjects: “…Human rights.…”
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Human rights : a reference handbook / by Redman, Nina

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Covenantal rights : a study in Jewish political theory / by Novak, David, 1941-

Subjects: “…Civil rights (Jewish law) sh 85026381…”


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The Right to Believe : Perspectives in Religious Epistemology. by Lukasiewicz, Dariusz

Table of Contents: “…; Do We Have the Epistemic Right to Believe in Jesus? An Epistemological Analysis of Some Arguments for Credibility of Christianity; Religious Beliefs in the Face of Rationalism; Believing the Self-Contradictory; Logic, Right to Unbelief and Freedom.…”
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Animal rights : a subject guide, bibliography, and Internet companion / by Kistler, John M., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Animal rights : general works -- Animal natures -- Fatal uses of animals -- Nonfatal uses of animals -- Animal populations -- Animal speculations.…”


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Human rights : an interdisciplinary approach / by Freeman, Michael, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins : the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945 : the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference : culture and human rights -- The politics of human rights -- Globalization, development and poverty : economics and human rights -- Human rights in the twenty-first century.…”


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The Bill of Rights : a documentary history /

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The rights of prisoners : the basic ACLU guide to prisoners' rights /

Table of Contents: “…Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment -- Due process -- Free communication and access to the courts -- Political rights -- Religious rights and discrimination -- Racial discrimination -- Privacy and personal appearance -- The special concerns of women prisoners -- Medical care and rehabilitation -- Pretrial confinement -- Parole -- Remedies and procedures for challenging conditions of confinement.…”
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Constitutional rights : report of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate made by its Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights pursuant to S....

Subjects: “…Indigenous peoples Civil rights North America. indig bslw85065227…”
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Getting it right regional development in Canada / by McGee, R. Harley (Robert Harley), 1927-2004

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The Right to be educated ; studies to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the universal declaration of human rights, December 10, 1948 /

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Children's Rights. by Freeman, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Children's Rights: New Issues, New Themes, New Perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Do Rights Still Flow Downhill?…”
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