A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism

Michael J. Perry (Emory University, Atlanta)

A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 April 2017
Pages
204
ISBN
9781107158511

A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism

Michael J. Perry (Emory University, Atlanta)

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term ‘human right’ means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly global morality in human history. Perry also pursues the implications of the morality of human rights for democratic governance and for the proper role of courts - especially the US Supreme Court - in protecting constitutionally entrenched human rights. The principal constitutional controversies discussed in the book are capital punishment, race-based affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide and abortion.

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