Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

by Emily Zackin

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Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069115578X

ISBN13:9780691155784

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Law Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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