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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    11 July 2019
    01 August 2019
    ISBN:
    9781108623261
    9781108486019
    9781108736947
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623261
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.55kg, 276 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.44kg, 276 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Socio-Legal Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Politics and International Relations, Jurisprudence
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Socio-Legal Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Politics and International Relations, Jurisprudence
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    All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L. West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing. Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on non-discrimination and thus have 'hollowed out' this broader meaning of civil rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

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